very weird quirk noted, copying one computer to another

[David T.]

Thank you, Geert. This was exactly what I was getting at.

David

On Oct 12, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

> On Sunday 12 October 2014 11:15:59 Simon Bryant wrote:
>> Thanks for the replies.
>> Please bear with me, I'm a "user" not a "developer" and if there's
>> someway to screw up something, I'll find it. Here's the situation:
>> What  mean is I copy the .gnucash files as per the directions from
>> the guide, section 2.7. To do this I "Save As" to a location. This is
>> supposed to be my entire data file, correct?
> Yes, it will save your entire data file.
> 
>> I then copy that file to
>> a USB, walk over to a second Mac computer with the same operating
>> system (OS10) and pop in the USB and open the file.
> You're glossing over a small but important detail here: how did you open 
> the file ?
> 
> If you double-clicked it, you didn't open the file. Instead you opened 
> gnucash which automatically will load the last file it was saved.
> 
> This is a bug specific to the Mac OS X version of gnucash.
> 
> To remedy: once in gnucash, choose File->Open and navigate to the file 
> on your usb stick to open it.
> 
> Can you try this ?
> 
> Geert