location of files when I click "save"

[Colin Law]

On 20 November 2015 at 09:03, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Marc, has that helped at all?

Colin