GnuCash Not Happy With External File Renaming
Geert Janssens
geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sat Apr 30 04:06:42 EDT 2016
On Friday 29 April 2016 22:44:01 Ron Westfall wrote:
> Hi
>
> GnuCash 2.6.12, MacOSX 10.10.5
>
> I am a new user of GnuCash. I have checked the documentation and
> FAQs, so my apologies if this issue is already known.
>
> I created a new GnuCase file Foo.gnucash. I then shut down GnuCash.
> Using MacOS's Finder, I renamed the file to Bar.gnucash. I then
> double-clicked on Bar.gnucash to open it. Instead, GnuCash tries to
> open Foo.gnucash during startup (splash screen showing) and whines
> about it being missing ("The file
> file:///Users/Ron/Desktop/Foo.gnucash could not be found"). When I
> close the whine dialog window, I get an empty window with title
> Unsaved Book and two buttons Save and Close. Close does nothing.
> Save shows a standard file save dialog. If you provide a file name
> such as Gunk, an empty Gunk.gnucash file is saved. Regardless of
> what you open next time, GnuCash attempts to open Gunk.gnucash.
>
> The only way to open the renamed Bar.gnucash file is to make sure the
> last opened GnuCash file exists, let GnuCash open it and then
> explicitly open Bar.gnucash using File > Open.
>
> As a new user I find this to be rather non-intuitive. Is there a
> reason why GnuCash doesn't just open the double-clicked GnuCash file?
> Is there a reason why it is so obsessed with the last opened file?
>
> Ron
Hi,
This is indeed a known problem with the Mac OS X port of gnucash. That port will ignore the
file you double-click on in the finder. That is a technical issue which John can no doubt better
explain if you're interested.
I would expect however that when you close the "whine" dialog as you call it, you should be
able to choose File->Open directly to select the new file, instead of first saving and opening
the dummy window. Is that not the case ?
Regards,
Geert
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