getting rid of accounts

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com" <fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

This is GConf, not GnuCash.

GConf keeps all state in memory and writes out these data files when it
exits.  You generally cannot modify these files by hand; you are
supposed to use the 'gconf' tools to do so.

Seriously, why is it such a big deal that you have old files in your
file history?  GnuCash will open the most recent file automatically, so
generally you never need to see the list.  And if you do pop back and
forth between a couple files, well, it will always be the top files.

The only time this would bite you is if you're using "Save As"
regularly, but why would you do that?

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-derek

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