subsequent year

[Del Kentner]

Thank you for the suggestion.  The problem was not that I was looking at
MRU files but that I couldn't find the files Gnucash and I had created and
then, when I did find them, there were many, many more than the three I
really wanted.  I'm still not exactly certain how all those got created but
by fumbling and stumbling and good luck, I identified the three wanted ones
and deleted the others.  Another mystery to me is that most if not all
 that I didn't need had an associated text file with them.  Perhaps those
text files are useful to some but they hold no useful information for me.
  Since you guys are so helpful, there is another question which I may have
seen referenced in the user manual but I'll mention it here for the heck of
it.  Does Gnucash always save a "new" and different file every when I click
save after entering a transaction?
Cheers back atcha.  :)  DK

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is all explained in section 3.1 of the wiki as I said yesterday ....
>
> 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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