GnuCash Not Happy With External File Renaming
Ron Westfall
westfall at shaw.ca
Sun May 1 17:28:07 EDT 2016
On 2016-05-01 1:50 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
The reason I ran into and continue to experience this problem is that I
have two GnuCash files. One is the stable file and the other is the
experimental file. I experiment with newly learned features and figure
out how they apply to my situation in the experimental file. Once I
have settled on how I am going to do something, I set it up in the
stable file. Once I finish a particular experiment, I delete the
experimental file and eventually recreate it from the updated stable
file. Because of this problem, I have to leave both files around, so I
run the risk of making changes to the wrong file.
I was originally only using one file, but then I started working with
invoices. Because invoices can not be deleted, I did not want garbage
experimental invoices cluttering up my file. If I get back to a point
where I am only working with features where changes can be fully backed
out, I will revert to using one file.
Ron
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