GnuCash <nofile> Opens Dirty?

[David Carlson]

BTW, I am running 2.6.18 in windows and I do not recall the warning
referring to any changes.

David C

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 7:54 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just had that experience as I was not logged in to my file server when I
> started GnuCash and I still think that my earlier comment is true.  GnuCash
> is offering to save the empty file. The interesting thing, though, is that
> because the file was unnamed it did not have a asterisk in the filename
> space on the top banner.
>
> David C
>
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 7:41 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I think that a non-existent file with no data is not the same as a file
>> that has been created with no data.  A created file has some structure and
>> some defaults set.  GnuCash is thus saying that it is not a properly saved
>> file with no data.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 1:56 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel <
>> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> When I open GnuCash with no file (i.e., “gnucash --nofile”), I find that
>>> if I immediately attempt to open a different file or exit the program
>>> altogether (i.e., without doing anything to the current session), I am
>>> warned that all changes to the current file will be lost. Given that I: a)
>>> have made no changes, and b) have “nofile” open at the time, this dialog is
>>> absurd.
>>>
>>> GnuCash should NOT consider “nofile” to be dirty, and thus should NOT
>>> ask that I save “nofile”. I don’t see any bugs filed for this.
>>>
>>> David
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>>
>>
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