GnuCash Not Happy With External File Renaming

[Colin Law]

On 1 May 2016 at 21:33, Ron Westfall <westfall at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Thanks to Dean and Geert for their responses.
>
> Dean ... It sounds like you are using GnuCash on MacOS X as well. Would I be
> wrong in guessing that you would really rather be able to double click on a
> .gnucash file to open it without having to do the workaround with
> Empty.gnucash?
>
> Geert ... Yes, once you close the "whine" dialog, you can use File -> Open.
> You get presented with another dialog about continuing with or without
> saving.  The dialog does not clearly indicate that it is referring to the
> empty gnucash file that GnuCash presented when it could not find the missing
> file.  The correct answer is to continue without saving to dispose of the
> empty file and then the desired file opens.

That should only happen once of course, as the next time you open GC
it will re-open the one you used last time.  That is unless you keep
renaming the file which I assume you are not.

Also, if you do want to change the name of the file, you can use File
> Save As and save it as the new name.  That does leave the old file
still there though.

Colin