File problem

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2013 07:48, David Ryder <dnryder at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Um - I put the dots there - I'm referring to the files themselves -:
>
> the first one for example is
> <name>.GNUCASH<date-time>.GNUCASH<date-time>.GNUCASH
> the third and sixth ones I dotted:

OK, I see.  What has happened with the first one, for example, is that
you opened the file <name>.gnucash.20121129135146.gnucash (which is a
backup file from <name>.gnucash) in gnucash, so it made a backup of
that by adding the further timestamp.gnucash on the end and also made
the matching log file.  They are not corrupted, just backups of
backups.  Nothing to worry about as long as you realise that you have
opened one of the backup files rather than the original.

Colin

> <name>.GNUCASH<date-time>.GNUCASH<date-time>.LOG
> (My caps to highlight I think those files indicate something went wrong
> somewhere)
>
> David
>
>
> On 02/02/13 17:21, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 2 February 2013 17:07, David Ryder <dnryder at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm confusded why the files with the pink dots are there and if they mean
>>> the data is corrupted - see here
>>
>> No idea what the dots mean, which OS are you using?  Is it something
>> you see in other folders?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> No - I'm using xml format.
>>>
>>> A backup? I'm fanatical ...
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 02/02/13 16:25, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2 February 2013 15:02, David Ryder <dnryder at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Colin,
>>> I can't save to the same folder without the .gnucash extension - I get
>>> the
>>> message:
>>> ...That database may be in use by another user, in which case you should
>>> not
>>> save the database. Do you want to proceed with saving the database?
>>>
>>> That is odd, you are not using sqlite format are you?  I don't get
>>> that message, but I also see that one cannot save the file without the
>>> .gnucash extension.  However actually all you have to do is to close
>>> Gnucash, rename the file (remove the .gnucash extension) open GC,
>>> which will complaint that it cannot find the file and then use File >
>>> Open to open it.  From thereon you should be ok.  You have, of course
>>> got a backup of the file haven't you.
>>>
>>> I'm using ubuntu 10.04.1 - it does not know the file is gnucash unless I
>>> manually associate it.  For me it associated when I installed GC from the
>>> repository.
>>>
>>> If I save to another folder, how will I know if the data is corrupt? I
>>> need
>>> to solve the problem of having .log...log and .gnucash...gnucash files
>>> don't
>>> I?
>>>
>>> Not sure why you think the data might be corrupt, but in fact as noted
>>> above saving to another folder does not help as it would still have
>>> the .gnucash extension.
>>>
>>> A completely different alternative you might like to consider is to
>>> have a set of shortcuts, one for each of your sets of accounts, which
>>> start gnucash automatically for the appropriate accounts.  Then you
>>> would not have to go off browsing for the files at all.  Just click
>>> the appropriate shortcut for the accounts you want.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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