losing data

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 22 16:22:26 EST 2013


On 12/22/2013 12:58 PM, Chris Bester wrote:
> Hi Maf
>
> Cannot give you a screen shot, but this is what the various toolbars look like:
>
> In the top left hand:-
> Ikon- Balance Sheet(equile)Aug2013 gnucash-Members fees-Gnucash- ( This is the bar that I am referring to and which I cannot understand.  It appears above the following tool bars and menu bars.)          Members fees is the account I am working in.
> File  Edit  View  Transactions  Actions  Business  Reports   Tools   Windows  Help
> Save   Close   Duplicate  Delete   Enter   Cancel etc. - etc.
> Accounts   Assets   Checking Accounts    Expenses  etc. - etc. 
>
> Your last sentence do not make sense to me.  Maybe my system is different. I do not understand what you mean by, having the wrong data file in use.
>
> Hope you can help.
> Chris
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maf. King [mailto:maf at chilwell.net] 
> Sent: 22 December 2013 12:07 PM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: Chris Bester
> Subject: Re: losing data
>
> On Sun 22 December 13 09:17:10 Chris Bester wrote:
>> Hi There
>>
>>
>>
>> I notice now that above my toolbar, on the top left hand, you can 
>> hardly see it, a bar appears with a tiny Gnucash icon and next to it ; 
>> Balance Sheet equile Aug. 2013 followed by the name of the account or 
>> report I am working with.  As I jump between reports or accounts, that 
>> name appears, but the Balance sheet equile Aug. 2013 remains the same.  
>> I have also discovered that when I open Windows in my toolbar, the 
>> same appears there.  Could this have anything to do with my continuous 
>> losing data entered after the end of August?  What is bar for in any case?
>>
>>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Any chance of a screenshot?  I'm not on a windows system, but my GC window layout is something like:
> Window Frame with current filename in it Menu Bar Tool Buttons Tabs for registers & reports Main display of tree/register/report
>
> If windows follows the same general layout, then I'd suggest that the "balance sheet....2013" is the filename of the accounts data file that is presently open.  This may suggest that you have the wrong data file in use.
>
> Do you have any entries in File -> {recently opened file list}, which is between File -> properties & File -> close on my version.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
>
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Highlight the button in the upper left corner marked File.  Right click
on it.  A drop down list appears.  The last entry is Quit.  That is the
button that ends the program.  Just above that button is Close.  That
button only closes the current window.  Just above that is a numbered
list of recent data filenames.  Number 1 on that list is the file that
you are currently using.  Normally that is the same filename that you
created the first time you used GnuCash with a suffix .gnucash.  There
may be more names if you have been experimenting with creating test
files to learn how GnuCash works.  That is recommended before starting a
file with 'Real" data.  Those files should be in an easy to find place
such as a sub directory of My Documents or another place easily
accessible with Windows Explorer.

When you are done with your current session you click on Quit and
GnuCash may ask you whether to save recent changes if there are any.  If
you do not close the program by either using that Quit button or
clicking on the red X button in the upper right hand corner of the
GnuCash window and clicking save at the prompt you will lose data.

David C



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