Bug?

[Dustin Henning]

The "Create Folder" button may be a bug, but the behavior you initially 
described is definitely normal for GnuCash.  I'm not sure where this 
"moving everything" problem is rooted, though.  I thought you indicated 
that you have been deleting these extraneous files as you go.  In that 
case, "everything" is just the one .gnucash file.  Once you move it and 
open it from the new location, all other files should be created in that 
new location and the problem should not recur.  Even if you hadn't been 
deleting all of the files as you go, moving them all doesn't have to be 
done individually.  They can be multi-selected and moved together.  One 
method of multi-select that I believe works on Mac PCs the same as other 
PC platforms is referred to as lassoing, you click blank space on the 
desktop and drag to create a square "lasso" that highlights everything 
it surrounds.  Other standard PC methods are Shift+Click which will 
highlight everything "between" a currently selected item and the clicked 
item and Ctrl+Click which will individually select each additional item 
clicked while Ctrl is held.  Mac PCs have a similar function, but it may 
not use the same keys (for instance, you may have to test with Command 
or Alt).  Regardless, it's arguably a one-time exercise that is only 
necessary because you didn't know how to use the software.  One might 
argue documentation should be improved here, for instance, when I first 
started using GnuCash I wasn't aware of this and had to move 
"everything" it created from one documents folder to a segregated 
subfolder, but I couldn't swear that I read a lot of documentation 
before having that experience to begin with.

On 5/25/2016 12:26 PM, Jacqueline Greenleaf wrote:
> But that’s the thing - I can’t see how to do this.
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> I haven’t been able to get the “Create Folder” button in gnucash to work. And yes, I can create a new folder from the desktop, but then I still have to gather up the gnucash files manually and put them there.
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