very weird quirk noted, copying one computer to another

[Simon Bryant]

Okay, let's put this another way. After deleting ALL gnucash files that I could find from the receiving computer (using Finder, Max OSX), and the downloading a new gnucash app, when I open the new app it STILL shows a list of ostensibly-available old gnucash files I created files (none of which actually open, because they no longer exist. WTF, how can I abolish gnucash traces from my computer forever and completely?) This all started because when I attempted to move a gnucash file from a different machine,it opened with incomplete account entires but a complete general ledger and I'm thinking hey, who's in control of this? I'm just a user, understand, not a developer, and trying to get an accounting not a programming job done. All your efforts to create a usable piece of software and inputs are much appreciated, no mistake, and what i've seen of gnucash i like except this… thanks again. i'm leaning towards finishing the fiscal year on gnucash and then jumping ship; this is scary.
-si-

On 2014-10-12, at 4:20 PM, Simon Bryant <simonbry at telus.net> wrote:

> Okay, after deleting ALL gnucash files from the receiving computer (buy opening Finder, searching for all Gnucash files and deleting all) I downloaded a brand-new today gnucash app from the web, app, opened it and it immediately it shows (without ANY double-clicking or path selection) my old gnucash file, full complete register showing all transactions form January 1st but in the individual account (e.g. "checking") just a couple of recent transactions. WTF?
> -Simo
> 
> On 2014-10-12, at 1:20 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday 12 October 2014 11:15:59 Simon Bryant wrote:
>>> Thanks for the replies.
>>> Please bear with me, I'm a "user" not a "developer" and if there's
>>> someway to screw up something, I'll find it. Here's the situation:
>>> What  mean is I copy the .gnucash files as per the directions from
>>> the guide, section 2.7. To do this I "Save As" to a location. This is
>>> supposed to be my entire data file, correct?
>> Yes, it will save your entire data file.
>> 
>>> I then copy that file to
>>> a USB, walk over to a second Mac computer with the same operating
>>> system (OS10) and pop in the USB and open the file.
>> You're glossing over a small but important detail here: how did you open 
>> the file ?
>> 
>> If you double-clicked it, you didn't open the file. Instead you opened 
>> gnucash which automatically will load the last file it was saved.
>> 
>> This is a bug specific to the Mac OS X version of gnucash.
>> 
>> To remedy: once in gnucash, choose File->Open and navigate to the file 
>> on your usb stick to open it.
>> 
>> Can you try this ?
>> 
>> Geert
> 
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