Deleting old set of books

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 09:27:29 David Both wrote:
> Thanks for your quick response. See my responses below.
> 
> On 05/29/2013 09:18 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2013 08:57:38 David Both
> 
>         wrote:
> > I have two old sets of books that I have
> 
>         used for testing certain entries
> 
> > for my business books. I also have two
> 
>         sets of real books, one for my
> 
> > business and one for my personal
> 
>         finances.
> 
> > I have finished with one of the sets of
> 
>         test books and would like to delete
> 
> > that set of books. I can find no way to
> 
>         do that.
> 
> > Question 1: Can anyone tell me how to
> 
>         delete a set of books?
> 
> Hi David,
>  
> A set of books is just a file on your
>         computer. So you delete it just like you delete any other
> file: use your file manager to locate the book on your PC and then
> delete it/move it to your trash.
> I have tried this in the past and deleted the files that start with
> the name of the set of books I wished to delete from ~/GnuCash. The
> files are gone, but the choices still remain in the "Files" menu
> along with my current sets of books. I am using Fedora 18 and GnuCash
> 2.4.13.
> 
I was already afraid that's what you really meant... ;)

What you see in the file menu is a "Most Recently Used" list. Many applications have it and 
most applications have no way for you to edit it and will have stale entries in there. The only 
difference with GnuCash is that you usually only create very few "GnuCash files", so the list 
seems to be static.

Anyway, since this question pops up more frequently than I care replying to it, I decided to 
make it a FAQ:

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_have_deleted_a_gnucash_file_from_my_computer._How
_can_I_remove_that_file_from_the_File_menu.27s_short_list_as_well_.3F

You will find the solution by clicking on the link above :)

Geert