File Name Length .xac & .log

[glenn bergmann]

Hi, I used Derek's and King's suggestions.  They gave me an understanding of
what gnuCash was doing with the filenames and worked fine to solve the
problem.

To solve the problem I used Maf's "Save As" suggestion.  The filename I
selected was the most recent .xac file.  This worked fine on her gnuCash
file and mine, which was also into more than one .xac.

If the user does a "Save" after the "Save As", a new backup file will be
saved with two .xac's in the filename.  In my case, since the old backup
files were no longer needed, we deleted all the previous backup files.

Your help has been outstanding clearing up an issue completely.  Thanks a
lot.  I do appreciate it.

Glenn Bergmann


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Geert Janssens
<janssens-geert at telenet.be>wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 July 2010, David T. wrote:
> > I have added Derek's detailed answer to this question (with very minor
> >  edits) to the wiki at:
> >
> >
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_is_my_file_name_getting_longer_and_
> > longer.3F
> >
> > See if it works.
> >
> > David
>
> Great idea !
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geert
>