GnuCash HELP, Please!

[David Carlson]

On 2/28/2012 11:03 PM, Yawar Amin wrote:
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> On 2012-02-29, at 00:01, Yvonne Cernick wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I downloaded your program and have gone from a single-entry Quicken to double-entry system am so impressed with the way your program works.  I have tried to follow the tutorial and am baffled as to why each time I save (which I am doing to the desktop) it saves a different verison, and also I believe when the program auto saves.  It is very confusing and I deleted several icons that only had a few sentences in each, which in turn deleted my data.  I really want to work with this program, can you lend any assistance as to HOW TO SAVE the last version without having numerous versions all over the desktop?
>>
>> I was so happy to learn how it works and now don't understand why it is saved in two formats on my desktop...
>>
>> THANK YOU FOR REPLYING!
>>
>> Yvonne
>>
>> Yvonne Cernick 
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Don't worry, as you suspect, you are seeing automatic backups.  One of
the quirks of GnuCash is that it saves the automatic backups in the same
directory as the data file.  Open the Tutorial and Concepts guide and
search for the word backups.

One thing that is not well explained is how to choose where to keep your
data files.  The Desktop is not a good place.  I suggest that you create
a directory with a name meaningful to you either under My documents or
under Public Documents if you are using Windows, or similarly off the
desktop in other operating systems.

What I do is make a shortcut to the data file and keep that on the
desktop.  GnuCash will start if you double click on the data file shortcut.

GnuCash keeps backups mainly to provide recovery tools for in-opportune
power failures or accidental traversals in the wrong direction when
inputting data, but not for more serious problems like drive failures.
You need to make your own plan for that scenario and stick to it.

David
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