Bug?

Jacqueline Greenleaf jacque at book-woman.net
Wed May 25 12:34:52 EDT 2016


Well, of course. But I can’t see how to do this. The “create folder” button in the gnucash new account setup doesn’t seem to work. And while I can create a new folder on my desktop, I still have to manually move everything into it. I don’t know of any other program that manages its own files this way, that’s why I question whether this is a bug.

And none of this explains why I eventually get multiple gnucash icons, representing several instances of the same file.

> On May 25, 2016, at 7:36 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is much easier to manage if you create a folder to place all the
> files in.  That way, they do not end up all over you desktop.
> 
> On 05/25/2016 09:31 AM, Dustin Henning wrote:
>> The system makes a new log file every time it runs and/or saves.  The
>> system also backs up the previous save file each time it makes a new
>> save.  In my experience on Windows, it deletes older backups and logs
>> when it saves once a certain quantity or age is exceeded (I'm not sure
>> on the specifics).  You could deal with this by moving your main file
>> to a special location (a such as a GnuCash folder on your desktop or
>> in your documents) so that you don't have to see all of the files.  It
>> may also be possible to change the behavior in settings, but you'd
>> have to refer to documentation or wait for a more knowledgeable
>> response if that was your preference.
>> 
>> On 5/25/2016 10:19 AM, Jacqueline Greenleaf wrote:
>>> New user here, I don’t know whether the behavior I’m seeing is a bug
>>> or something I’m doing wrong.
>>> 
>>> I set up a new file, storing it on my desktop, and starting working
>>> with it. Every time I manually save, I wind up with a new gnucash
>>> icon/file on my desktop, plus some assorted text dos with the
>>> extensions .log and .lck scattered around.
>>> 
>>> Is this expected behavior? Does the program really expect me to,
>>> every time I manually save, to manually delete the older icons? What
>>> about the assorted text files?
>>> 
>>> I’m running the latest stable version of gnucash on a MacBook Air
>>> running the latest OS X.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help!
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