GnuCash Not Happy With External File Renaming

[Don Ireland]

What you're describing could easily be handled via SAVE AS. 

1) Open Stable (or if you already have it open save it so you don't lose any info you've entered since it was last saved). 

2)Save As Experimental

3) Do your tests. 

4) Once you are satisfied with your new method(s), go back to Stable and make any desired changes resulting from your new method(s). 

5) Save Stable. 

6) Delete Experimental if you like - Stable was your most recent file opened. 

But do these opens via the gnuCash Open dialog. 

On May 1, 2016 4:28:07 PM CDT, Ron Westfall <westfall at shaw.ca> wrote:
>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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Don Ireland