deleting files

[Bob Plantz]

On 8/6/2012 1:31 PM, Colin Law wrote:
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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

And this is the way I read his original post. That's why I suggested 
uninstalling the program and deleting the folder that has the settings, 
and then reinstalling the program. I took that to be what he meant by 
"start out fresh." In this case, his question essentially boils down to: 
Where are the setting files? That depends on which OS he's using since 
the directory structure differs.

--Bob

>> 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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