subsequent year

[Del Kentner]

OK, stupid question but where or where do I find the full Wiki to which you
refer rather than the Q&As?


On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Also covered in section 3.1 of the wiki -
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F
>
> Seriously you need to read the wiki section on managing a Gnucash
> Installation which answers most if not all of the questions you have raised
> -
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#GnuCash_Files_and_managing_a_GnuCash_installation
>
> Cheers Dave H.
>
>
> On 26 January 2015 at 08:44, Del Kentner <dlmrgnk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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