getting rid of accounts

[James Kerr]

On 29/10/2011 21:06, John Ralls wrote:
>
> On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:50 AM, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Tried deleting the file you specified.
>>
>> Doing so had no effect on the list of accounts under 'file'. They
>> are still there.
>>
>> Must be something else.


>> From: John Ralls<jralls at ceridwen.us>

>>
>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 2:33 PM, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>> Moved from Kubuntu 11.04 to Kubuntu 11.10.
>>>
>>>
>>> Booted gnucash and was playing around with new accounts. Now I
>>> want to get rid of the new accounts, but can find no way to do
>>> so. I deleted the account files, but gnucash insists on keeping
>>> the accounts listed under the 'File" topic. If I click on the
>>> accounts whose file were deleted, I get an error message that
>>> file cannot be found. This is confusing and un-needed.
>>>
>>>
>>> How do I get rid of the accounts that I created to play around
>>> with features?
>>>

>>
>> The list in the file menu is of recently accessed files. Deleting
>> the file has no effect on it.
>>
>> The list is stored in ~/.gconf/apps/gnucash/history/%gconf.xml. You
>> could probably delete that with no ill effects -- but to be safe,
>> rename it instead, so that if Gnucash complains you can put it
>> back.
>>

>
> I dunno. It certainly worked for me. (I also found it useful to
> "touch" the file after deleting it so that Gnucash would show the
> "new user" dialog.)
>

What worked for me (on Windows 7) was, after deleting the history file, 
I re-launched Gnucash by clicking on a data file (or using the 
right-click Open dialogue if necessary).

Re-launching Gnucash through a menu entry seemed to result in the 
history file being re-created as it was before.

Jim