getting rid of accounts

[fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com]

It was serious for me since I backup all of my financial records to separate partitions on two separate hard disks which are separate from the hard disk where the current records are kept (that is 3 separate hard disks). In addition, I regularly backup critical financial information to 2 separate flash drives, one of which I carry with me all the time. That is 5 backups total.


In playing around I also needed to reconstruct an old bank account and find a discrepancy between me and another bank. 


So in doing all of this I opened 1 or 2 of the backup gnucash files on the hard disks. In doing so, gnucash lists those accounts with the same name as the current account since they are backup copies as the current account and have the same name. Thus, I ended up with 3 or 4 gnucash accounts with the same name. At first this was no problem since the differences were obvious to me. But as I reconstructed the old account and corrected the discrepancy, the current account became very different from the old backup accounts and it was getting very confusing switching between 3 or 4 accounts all with the same name.

By getting rid of ALL of the accounts and starting as a new beginner, I could open the current account (which was now fixed and up to date) and it was the only account that I need be concerned about.

So, by moving the file from the directory, I got gnucash to start as a new beginner, the extraneous, confusing accounts with the same name were gone and the problem was solved.

The same problem could arise for others that need to open backup copies of the current account file for reference or other needs and they also will end up with more than 1 account with the same name.

Just my experience in this.

 
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>________________________________
>From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>To: "fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com" <fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com>
>Cc: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>; gnucash list <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 10:49 AM
>Subject: Re: getting rid of accounts
>
>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?
>
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
>-derek
>
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