File problem

[David Ryder]

Hi Colin
Thanks fr you reply.
Each of my new set of books have .gnucash files. The icon is the same 
for each.
How any .gnucash files are there supposed to be? My instinct says one, 
the others having been created when the system loaded a .log file - is 
this correct?

David

On 02/02/13 13:15, Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 February 2013 10:40, David Ryder <dnryder at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> gnucassh 2.4.7
>>
>> I use gnucash (obvious). For years  I have sometimes had to look for the
>> Gzip file to avoid opening books with the wrong file. This avoided the
>> ...123.log456.log problem.
>>
>> I just started three more sets of books - oh, no gzip file. Just a
>> <NAME>.gnucash file And (heart sinks) I see there are
>> <NAME>.gnucash
>> <NAME>.gnucash.123.log
>> <NAME>.gnucash.123.gnucash.123.gnucash
>> <NAME>.gnucash.123.gnucash.123.log
>> <NAME>.gnucash.123.log456.log
>> <NAME>.gnucash.123.gnucash
>> files.
>>
>> In my list of recent files, all the new ones I created show as
>> <NAME>.gnucash instead of just <NAME>.
>>
>> May I ask for help please on either how I can start these books over without
>> losing data or on clearing up the mess of files?
> The default for the accounts file is <name>.gnucash as you have found.
>   An advantage of this is that the system knows that it is a gnucash
> file so you should just be able to double click it to open it in
> gnucash.  It should have the gnucash icon against it which I would
> have thought is better than gzip.
> However, if you don't want it with that name just open it in gnucash
> and then do File > Save As and remove the .gnucash extension before
> saving it.
>
> Colin
>