Gnucash on OSX -- how computer novice friendly?

[jomali]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:35 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Feb 16, 2010, at 10:29 AM, jomali wrote:
>
> <snip>
> Umm, not quite. A and b are right, but step c isn't, because .gnucash is a
> directory, not a file, and there is no .gnucash_bak. There are some other
> directories that need to be deleted as well. Start
> Applications>Utilities>Terminal and run the following commands:
>
> rm -rf ~/.gnucash
> rm -rf ~/.banking
> rm -rf ~/.gconf*
>
> There will only be a .banking if she has set up online banking.
>
> She'll also want to delete the account file (or files) and the backups and
> log files. It's a good idea to make an "accounts" folder when she saves the
> first time, then she can just drag the whole thing to the trash and empty
> it.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>

Of course you're right, John. .gnucash is a folder. I wrote too fast and was
careless with my terminology. But I also have a .gnucash_bak folder on my
disk. It seems to date from 2008, so I don't remember how it got there.
Thanks for amplifying my suggestion. I don't have banking set up on my
computer, so I didn't know that a .banking folder would be present.

Jomail