Is there a way to "Clear all contents/delete all transactions" for a fresh start?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 11/3/2016 6:54 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:

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> My initial guess is that you exported, then closed out GnuCash and restarted. GnuCash, however, automatically opens the last file, which would then appear as if your new file had transactions in it. If you are on a Mac, moreover, GnuCash will open the last file even if you double-click the new file in Finder. This is a known issue with GnuCash on the Mac.
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An issue with gnucash per se?

Perhaps a more general problem. If a file does not have a file extension 
OR no association between an extension and the application to be used by 
default to open that file (when clicked) your computer cannot "know" 
what application to use. That's true not only with the Mac OS and 
gnucash but all operating systems and all applications. If by "problem 
with gnucash on the Mac" what is meant is that the other installations 
of gnucash do add a file extension to the name and the Mac installation 
of gnucash does not, or others create the association between extension 
and application and gnucash does not, a rather minor problem. We very 
rarely create new sets of books, so no big deal to rename the new file 
so as to have the expected extension. And if it is the association that 
is missing, that's a one time fix to add that association manually.

Michael D Novack