Removing gnucash file from my laptop

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 03 December 2015 13:16:30 Colin Law wrote:
> On 3 December 2015 at 12:43, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/03/2015 05:22 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >> On 3 December 2015 at 11:16, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I was experimenting with gnucash on Fedora 23. I deleted gnucash
> >>> and did a
> >>> fresh install. When I started the fresh install it said "The file
> >>> .....gnucash" could not be found.
> >>> How do I remove this message?
> >> 
> >> It is just saying that the last file you had open cannot be found
> >> (it
> >> attempts to open the file you used last in order that you don't
> >> need
> >> to manually open it).  Just ignore the message.  When you make a
> >> new
> >> file and save it then the next time you open GC it will re-open
> >> that
> >> file so the message will not appear.
> >> 
> >> Colin
> > 
> > Colin, thank you for your reply. Since gnucash cannot find the file
> > I last used, it must keep that information somewhere. I would like
> > to know where it is so I can delete it.
> 
> Please use Reply All or Reply List when replying to messages on this
> list, otherwise the reply only goes to the previous poster, not to the
> list.  I am copying this to the list.
> 
> Why do you need to delete it?  As soon as you save a new file it will
> be removed automatically.
> 
> Colin

If you really want to delete it, this information is stored using gsettings. On linux you can 
edit these settings with dconf-tool.

Regards,

Geert