deleting files

[Colin Law]

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On 6 August 2012 16:50, M. SPENCER <directoptionsmichael at live.com> wrote:
> Sir, that is correct. I was just trying to get familiar with program and
> features and created some dummy accounts and noticed that I couldn't delete
> files; so my question remains is this possible to delete dummy accounts.

Hold on, the first time you said you wanted to delete old files, we
assumed you meant the file that is created when you first click Save,
and tell it what to call it and where to save it.  The answer to that
is that you can just delete it using your file manager or whatever you
use to manage files (browse to wherever you told it save and delete it
and the log and backup files you will also find there.  Now you are
asking about deleting accounts, an account is a bank account or an
expense account for example.  Is it an individual account you are
trying to delete?

Colin L

> Thanks for input.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Colin Law
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 11:35 AM
> To: plantz at ieee.org
> Cc: M. SPENCER ; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: deleting files
>
>
> On 6 August 2012 16:27, Bob Plantz <rgplantz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> And of course you could delete the files and remove the program. Then
>> reinstall and start all over from scratch. Depends on how "fresh" you want
>> to start out again.
>
>
> Why would he want to re-install the software?  It is only the accounts
> file that he wants to start afresh.
>
> Colin L
>
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>> On 8/6/2012 5:14 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Just use File -> New to start over.
>>> It won't get removed from the Recent History, but that's fine
>>> Yes, you can just delete the old files.  It may be easier to start the
>>> new
>>> one first, otherwise GnuCash will complain about not being able to open
>>> it.
>>> Good luck.
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>> Sent from my HTC smartphone
>>>
>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>> From: "M. SPENCER" <directoptionsmichael at live.com>
>>> To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: deleting files
>>> Date: Mon, Aug 6, 2012 1:02 AM
>>>
>>>
>>>       I am a new user and my question is regarding deleting files that
>>> were made in error; is it possible to delete these files and start out
>>> fresh?
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
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