subsequent year

[Del Kentner]

Here is a screen shot of a portion of the recycle bin showing a few of the
files I deleted as being duplicates:
[image: Inline image 1]

This is very interesting and I am glad it is now of academic interest.  :)

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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