Clear everything and start fresh

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 21 March 2014 11:56:34 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Luis Costabile <lcostabile at gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm test driving gnucash and trying different things before I put in
> > real data. What's a way to clear everything and start fresh?
> 
> File -> New File
> 
> > I tried doing apt-get remove gnucash and deleting $HOME/.gnucash 
> > and
> > the mycompany.gnucash files, but everything i install gnucash again
> > and run it,  the FILE Pull down displays the company files I've
> > used,
> > how can I clear this too?
> 
> This is just a history stored in gconf.  If you REALLLLLLLLLY want to
> clear this out you can use the gconf-editor to remove it (at least in
> 2.4; in 2.6 it moved to gsettings so I'm not sure what tool you use
> for that.)
> 
On linux: dconf-editor (as dconf is used as backend for gsettings)
On Windows: regedit (as the registry is used as backend here)
On mac: a tool to edit plists, but I don't know how that works.

Geert