-.gnucash files

[AlainCageda]

Derek 

There was a lot of confusion in my mind between main files and autobackups. It's a lot clearer now. Thank you for your help.

Alain



>________________________________
> De : Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>À : Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> 
>Cc : AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
>Envoyé le : Lundi 17 septembre 2012 15h16
>Objet : Re: -.gnucash files
> 
>For the record, this is in the FAQ:
>
>http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_is_my_file_name_getting_longer_and_longer.3F
>
>-derek
>
>"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:
>
>> On Mon 17 September 12 09:56:56 AlainCageda wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>I have probably been mistaking "proper" file with backup files all along.
>>>How do I know one from the others? The file I'm looking for is probably
>>>lost somewhere and I don't know where to look.
>>>
>>
>> Well, from the info you have supplied earlier in the thread, your original 
>> file was PERSO (possibly with a .gnucash extension) without any timestamps.  
>> However, since you have made changes to backups, I wouldn't worry too much 
>> about the original file, now, it will be hoplessly out of date.  Make a new 
>> "main" file, by doing a "save as" from the most recently edited datafile! 
>>
>>
>>>
>>>I don't know why some files now go to "Documents" wheras they all
>>>(apparently) used to stay in "Users>My name". The only thing I did which
>>>apparently made a difference was Copying one file from "Users>My name" to
>>>Documents.  
>>
>> Yep, that would do it.  Copy file from place A to place B.  then you opened 
>> the file in place B.  GC remembers the last data file opened, so if you start 
>> the program directly (start menu, command prompt etc.)  you can easily end up 
>> editing wrong or backup files.
>>
>> Assuming that Windows knows it should open *.gnucash files with GC (KDE does), 
>> I find that always starting GC by (double-)clicking on the data file I want to 
>> work with is the best way to start GC.  (but then, I have 5 separate files 
>> that I regularly use, so the last-opened one is usually wrong anyway!) 
>>
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
>>
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