strange file name

[carpetnailz]

Ok, that helps. But how do I tell which is the main file and which is
the backup? I think I always just let GnuCash open the file I last had
open, so how can the backup files sneak in there? (No one else uses
GnuCash.)

I just renamed the latest file "Personal.xac." If I don't do anything,
should GnuCash always open that file and not some backup file? 

When and how does GnuCash make a backup file?

Thanks. EB

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:56 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> carpetnailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org> writes:
> 
> > The file name of my gnucash file is a strange concatenation of .xac
> > phrases:
> >
> > Personals2006.20070307140316.xac.20070501072336.xac.20071112212814.xac.20080425183846.xac.20081020163034.xac
> >
> > How does this come about?
> 
> It means you opened a backup of a backup of a backup of a backup, and
> it created a backup.
> 
> So you started with a file named "Personals2006".  Then sometime after
> March 7, 2007 you opened the March 7th backup file and started using
> that.  Then you did the same thing on May 10, and November 12, and
> then again on April 25, 2008.  The file here is the backup file created
> on October 20, 2008, based on that April 25th backup from... the list.
> 
> Remember:  GnuCash will always reopen the most recent file you used.
> Most likely you (or someone you know) is opening a backup file the main
> data file, so GnuCash is dutifully following your instructions and
> switches over to that as the main data file.
> 
> > Thanks.
> >
> > EB
> 
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> 
> -derek
>