How to Delete Files in GnuCash
William Lowder
wml.rexton at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 15:44:33 EDT 2011
Thanks for your help. I am new to the system. At present everything has
gone away. Will continue working with GnuCash in an effort to learn how to
use it. Sorry I didn't keep specifics and am unable to reproduce the
problem.
Was just trying to start from a clean slate.
Thanks
Bill
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Maf King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 Jun 2011 16:34:14 Colin Law wrote:
> > On 19 June 2011 14:33, William Lowder <wml.rexton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I wanted to start with a clean system. I used windows uninstall for
> the
> > > old version of GnuCash, downloaded the current version and tried to
> > > start GnuCash. I got the message, file not found at start up, when I
> > > checked the new install there were several files listed from when I
> > > tried to use the previous version. Selecting any of these files
> > > resulted in a message file not found.
>
> Are these files listed in the File menu of Gnucash? - ie recently used
> files?
>
> To get a completely clean install, you need to delete some user preferences
> which get stored by default in ~/.gnucash and ~/.gconf folders (IIRC.)
>
> There is no other way that I know of to remove them from the list, (other
> than
> starting new files, so they get replaced!)
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
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