Bug?

[Jacqueline Greenleaf]

Dustin, you’re right, I sure didn’t read the entire manual before I started doing stuff!

I’m sure everything I need to know and more is in that manual, but in general I find I have to mess with things a bit before the manual starts making sense. And even when I started trying to find the answer I needed in the manual, I couldn’t - nothing I searched on returned a result, undoubtedly because I was searching on the wrong terms.

Anyway, thanks for all the help, it’s finally working the way I expect a program to work.


> On May 25, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Dustin Henning <The00Dustin at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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> On 5/25/2016 12:26 PM, Jacqueline Greenleaf wrote:
>> But that’s the thing - I can’t see how to do this.
>> 
>> 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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