location of files when I click "save"

[Colin Law]

On 20 November 2015 at 00:26, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 11/19/2015 02:49 PM, Marc Sopher wrote:
>> Mailing list—I stand corrected.
>>
>> Something worked, though I’m not sure what it was.  That said, when I click “File” then “Save As,” where should I have the file saved, and what name should it have?  Also, when I simply click on “Save” that appears on the left side of the toolbar, where is that being saved?  Thanks.
> First Save.  Clicking on Save in the toolbar saves to the last file you
> opened or saved to.  When you start gnucash it automatically opens (or
> tries to) the last file you opened.  When you first tried gnucash it
> would have prompted you to setup an account structure and when you saved
> that that file where ever YOU chose to put it became the last saved file
> and the one that would get opened the next time you ran gnucash.
>
> Save As.  Short answer you can save to any file anywhere on your
> computer.  However, you should pick and name and a location you can find
> again (preferably somewhere on your computer that you backup regularly).

Just to clarify further, when running gnucash the name of the
currently open file will appear in the window title bar (at least it
does on Ubuntu, I assume it also does on Windows).  When you click
Save it will save back to that file (exactly the same as when you have
a document open in MS Word for example).  When you click File > Save
As it will show initially the folder where the currently open file is,
so if you are not sure which file you are using then looking in Save
As (and then cancel) will tell you where it is, and the name is in the
window title bar.

Colin

>>
>> From: Colin Law
>> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 5:23 PM
>> To: Marc Sopher
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: location of files when I click "save"
>>
>> On 19 November 2015 at 22:15, Marc Sopher <mdsophermd at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I am new to this forum, so appreciate the advice and will be sure to use
>>> Reply All in the future.
>>>
>>> I suspect I am not finding where the recent files were saved to, and will
>>> keep searching.  Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
>> To be accurate this is a mailing list not a forum.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean.  Does File > Open not work for you?
>> You said that you knew where the files were so you should be able to
>> browse to them in the File Open dialog.
>>
>> As for the Recent Files that is just a list of recently used files
>> that appears at the bottom of the menu when you click File.
>>
>> If you are still not having success then please explain *exactly* what
>> you are doing (click this, click that and so on) and *exactly* what is
>> happening or not happening.  As you have described it so far you have
>> not given sufficient information for me to understand what problem you
>> are having, which makes it difficult to offer a solution.
>>
>> Colin
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