GnuCash Not Happy With External File Renaming
Ron Westfall
westfall at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 30 01:44:01 EDT 2016
Hi
GnuCash 2.6.12, MacOSX 10.10.5
I am a new user of GnuCash. I have checked the documentation and FAQs,
so my apologies if this issue is already known.
I created a new GnuCase file Foo.gnucash. I then shut down GnuCash.
Using MacOS's Finder, I renamed the file to Bar.gnucash. I then
double-clicked on Bar.gnucash to open it. Instead, GnuCash tries to
open Foo.gnucash during startup (splash screen showing) and whines about
it being missing ("The file file:///Users/Ron/Desktop/Foo.gnucash could
not be found"). When I close the whine dialog window, I get an empty
window with title Unsaved Book and two buttons Save and Close. Close
does nothing. Save shows a standard file save dialog. If you provide a
file name such as Gunk, an empty Gunk.gnucash file is saved. Regardless
of what you open next time, GnuCash attempts to open Gunk.gnucash.
The only way to open the renamed Bar.gnucash file is to make sure the
last opened GnuCash file exists, let GnuCash open it and then explicitly
open Bar.gnucash using File > Open.
As a new user I find this to be rather non-intuitive. Is there a reason
why GnuCash doesn't just open the double-clicked GnuCash file? Is there
a reason why it is so obsessed with the last opened file?
Ron
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