three different business accounts

[David Carlson]

On 4/29/2012 12:27 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> OK, I have just started a virtual computer running Ubuntu 11.10 and I
> opened the folder containing a GnuCash Data File.  I opened the data
> file with GnuCash by double clicking on the data file.
>
> Then I saved the file under a different name and closed GnuCash.  Then I
> created a link to the first file by hovering over the icon  holding down
> the middle mouse button and dragging it to the desktop then clicking
> Link Here.  Then I double clicked on the link.  GnuCash opened the link
> and created a backup on the desktop.   I entered a transaction and saved
> the file, it replaced the link with a file.
>
> I went back to the original folder and found the original file and the
> file withe the different name still there and unchanged.  The new
> transaction was not in the file.
>
> In Windows, if I create a "shortcut" to a file and place it on the
> desktop, and double-click it to open the file, gnucash opens the file in
> it's original directory under it's original name and will save it with
> the same name, behaving similar to other programs such as text editors, etc.
>
> So I just learned that in Ubuntu Gnucash does not treat Linux links as
> it treats Windows shortcuts.
>
> I repeated the experiment with LibreOffice Calc.  If I double click on
> the link to open the file, edit it and close it, I can then return to
> folder containing the original file, double click on it and find the
> edit that i made when I opened the file from the link.  This is similar
> to the way shortcuts work in Windows.  I believe that this is a bug and
> it should be reported in Bugzilla. 
>
> Now I cannot repeat this experiment in OSX, so I will ask someone who
> has one of those machines to try a similar experiment.
>
> David C
I found that this bug was already reported.  see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606086

David C
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