gnucash help + getting rid of unneeded files

[Paula Hendricks]

so to change the topic, if i delete the files with the #s, will the program still work? do i need to keep them all forever? is there a way to manage all the created files?

thanks.

	ph

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On Jul 12, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Michael Hendry wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2013, at 01:21, Rachel <rachelgoodpeople at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi there are a bunch of document.gnucash files, when I try to open them I get this error, see screenshot, thank you!
> 
> Try opening the one called "Documents.gnucash" - this is the file named at the top of the screenshot you sent on 12th July at 22:57.
> 
> All the other files are backups or log files automatically created by GnuCash.
> 
> For example, I opened my GnuCash file this morning, made a minor change to one of my existing transactions, and then Saved the file and Closed GnuCash.
> 
> I have the following files all with today's date on them:
> 
> MDH.gnucash
> MDH.gnucash.20130713072724.log
> MDH.gnucash.20130713072735.gnucash
> MDH.gnucash.20130713072738.log
> 
> You'll see that the last three filenames include the date and time, in the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
> 
> Unless you know what you're doing, DON'T OPEN any of the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS files!
> 
> MDH.gnucash (or in your case Documents.gnucash) is the active file, and as long as this file hasn't been damaged in some way, you should never have to use any of the others.
> 
> Best of luck!
> 
> Michael
> 
>> 
>> On 7/12/13 6:01 PM, Dustin Henning wrote:
>>> Documents.gnucash should be your main file.  All of the others are backups
>>> and logs of changes made.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
>>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Rachel
>>> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 13:59
>>> To: Maf. King
>>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: gnucash help
>>> 
>>> Here is a screenshot of my files :)
>>> 
>>> On 7/11/13 5:09 PM, Maf. King wrote:
>>>> On Thu 11 July 13 14:17:36 Rachel wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>> My computer crashed but I saved the hard drive.
>>>>> Now I can't figure out how to load my gnu cash files. I have
>>>>> downloaded gnucash on my new computer and have tons of gnucash files
>>>>> on my hard drive, but I'm not very computer savvy and I can't get them to
>>> load.
>>>>> Please help! As you can imagine I need this info.
>>>>> Thank you so much!!
>>>>> Rachel
>>>> Hi Rachel,
>>>> 
>>>> You don't say which operating system you were / are using, nor if you
>>>> get any error messages from gnucash so this is only general thoughts....
>>>> 
>>>> In the accounts data directory from the old computer, there should be
>>>> a selection of files which are something like:
>>>> rachelsAccounts.gnucash    (this is the main datafile)
>>>> rachelsAccounts.<timestampNumber>.gnucash
>>>> rachelsAccounts.<timestampNumber>.log
>>>> 
>>>> there will be several of the last 2, with different timestamps. The
>>>> rachelsAccounts bit will vary depending on what you chose to call the
>>>> datafile when you started to use GC way back when...
>>>> 
>>>> If you can start the gnucash program, you should be able to file ->
>>>> open and choose the main datafile.  From there on, GC will remember
>>>> the file that as open and re-open it each time.
>>>> 
>>>> HTH,
>>>> Maf.
>>>> 
>> 
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