getting rid of accounts

[fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com]

Okay. I had simply renamed the file to '%gconf.xml.back', leaving it in place.

Booted gnucash and all of the accounts were still listed.

This last time I moved the file to the 'tmp' directory in my HOME directory so that ~/.gconf/apps/gnucash/history was empty. Booted gnucash and it came up with a 'new user' beginning. So it would seem that gnucash reads whatever file is in the directory irregardless of the name.

Thanks

 
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>From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>To: "fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com" <fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com>
>Cc: gnucash list <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:06 PM
>Subject: Re: getting rid of accounts
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>On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:50 AM, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
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>> Tried deleting the file you specified. 
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>> 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>
>> To: "fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com" <fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 8:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: getting rid of accounts
>> 
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>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 2:33 PM, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
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>> > Moved from Kubuntu 11.04 to Kubuntu 11.10.  
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>> > 
>> > 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. 
>> > 
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>> > How do I get rid of the accounts that I created to play around with features?
>> > 
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>> The list in the file menu is of recently accessed files. Deleting the file has no effect on it. 
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>> 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.
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>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.)
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>Regards,
>John Ralls
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