subsequent year

[Colin Law]

On 25 January 2015 at 21:32, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is all explained in section 3.1 of the wiki as I said yesterday ....

I am not sure it is obvious that the question relating to multiple
files apparently with the same name is answered.  I think this is
caused by the user having his OS set to not show file extensions
(which I suspect is the default in windows) so talk of .gnucash and
.log files is not immediately helpful to him.  Perhaps this problem is
addressed in the wiki, but I could not see it.

Colin

> Are you getting confused by files which show up in Gnucash's most recently
> used file list and no longer exist physically because you deleted them in
> Windows Explorer ? If so check out section 3.1.11 of the wiki at
> 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_.28MRU.29_as_well_.3F
>
> You'll probably benefit from reading the whole of section 3.1 on Gnucash
> files,  log files,  etc.
>
> Cheers Dave H...
>
>
> On 26/01/2015 12:07 AM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 25 January 2015 at 13:53, Del Kentner <dlmrgnk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > OK, it will take me a bit as they need to be retrieved from the Recycle
>> > Bin.
>> > Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318
>> > It so happened that the text file I restored doesn't have the same
>> > number as
>> > the "pairs" did but the name was the same, the difference is one was
>> > preceded by the Gnucash symbol and the other by the Libre Office symbol.
>> > Here is a copy and paste of the text in the file I restored with the
>> > same
>> > name as above (with a different number):
>> > mod trans_guid split_guid time_now date_entered date_posted acc_guid
>> > acc_name num description notes memo action reconciled amount value
>> > date_reconciled
>>
>> Firstly, unless you specifically saved your gnucash file with the name
>> Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318, then that is not your original accounts
>> file.  Each time you save the file it makes a backup file by appending
>> the date/time to your filename.  So your actual file was presumably
>> Farm.Gnucash and the above file is the backup that gnucash saved at
>> 11:23::18 on 23rd Jan.  Note that the full name will actually be
>> Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318.gnucash.  Presumably you have your
>> operating system set to not show file extensions.
>>
>> Secondly gnucash also creates log files containing details of the
>> changes you made during the session. The log files names are created
>> by appending the datetime to your filename, with the extension .log
>> rather than .gnucash.  So that file would be
>> Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318.log and is presumably the file that your
>> OS thinks is an Office file.
>>
>> I am sure this is all explained in the gnucash docs somewhere, though
>> I am not up to date with where those are.
>>
>> Colin
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