Moving Data to New PC

[Ken G.]

On 05/13/2013 09:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Ken,
>
> "Ken G." <beachkidken at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I dare say it is a matter of copying the last ten files saved, the
>> application and
>> the log files. I never could figure out what the different is. When I
>> have to manually
>> open a file, it is either the latest 'application log' or the GnuCash
>> financial data
>> file. For example, below are my latest files for two days:
>>
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.20130510202835.log
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.20130511164537.log
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.20130511164650.log
>>
>> The first file was saved Friday while the last three was saved at the
>> same time on Saturday.
>> It is beyond my comprehension. Currently, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>> as my main
>> operating system.
> The fact that you have files that look like this implies that at some
> point in time you inadvertantly opened a backup file from January 13,
> 2013 and started using that as your main data file.
>
> Generally you should only need to copy your main data file (which in
> your case should have been kengreen.gnucash), however in your case you
> stopped using that as your main file at some point, so your main data
> file is now kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.
>
>> Ken
> -derek 

With thanks to the various feedbacks I received, I did a 'save as' and 
here is my current
listing:

/home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash
/home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130512155612.log

At one time I had to use a backup file due to a crash or locked file or 
something another.

Ken