subsequent year

[Del Kentner]

Thank you VERY much.  My fumbling and stumbling will eventually ge me where
I need to be.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 January 2015 at 22:48, Del Kentner <dlmrgnk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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]
>>
>>
> I think you have not read my post carefully enough.  As I explained, it
> seems that you have got file extensions turned off in Windows (which I
> suspect is the, IMO silly, default in Windows), so you cannot see the full
> filenames, but have to try and guess from the file type.  The first file
> above, shown as Farm is actually your original accounts file, full name
> Farm.gnucash.  The Farm.gnucash.nnnnn files shown as gnucash files have the
> extension .gnucash and are the backup files automatically created by
> gnucash.  The number is a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS and shows
> the time the backup was made and contains the accounts contents before the
> edits made at that time were saved.  The files shown as Text Documents are
> actually of extension .log and are the logs made showing the changes you
> made to the accounts at that time.  Each time you save your accounts file
> it saves the original file and makes a backup file and a log file.  Now
> since, according to your previous posts, you have started using a filename
> with a timestamp as your actual accounts file the situation will be further
> complicated by the fact that the filenames will now have two numbers, which
> will complicate things even further.  I suggest you open your accounts file
> and do a File > Save As and save it with an appropriate name (Farm?) and
> then that will be the one to use from here on.
>
> Please keep re-reading the above until you fully understand it.  If you
> can't then ask for clarification.
>
> Colin
>
>
>
>> 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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