GnuCash Files names

[Denis_gmail]

No wonder I was confused! Really appreciate your help and explanations 
of what went wrong.
Just to be on the safe side I'll make a copy of all those files before 
deleting.

Thanks again
Den



Le 2017-08-09 à 13:37, Buddha Buck a écrit :
> You probably also have a "den.gnucash", a 
> "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash", a 
> "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash", and a 
> "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash" 
> as well.
>
> When you are using GnuCash to work on the file "foo.gnucash", GnuCash 
> will periodically save a backup file with the name 
> "foo.gnucash.<timestamp>.gnucash". It is easy to get lots of these 
> backup files with varying timestamps in your data directory.
>
> If you open up the backup file instead of your original data file, so 
> you are working on "foo.gnucash.<timestamp1>.gnucash", GnuCash will 
> create backup files with the name 
> "foo.gnucash.<timestamp1>.gnucash.<timestamp2>.gnucash". If you decide 
> to use that backup file instead of either your original data file or 
> the first backup file, you'll get three timestamps in the filename. It 
> appears that you ended up working on the backup of the backup of the 
> backup of the backup (for a total of 4 timestamps).
>
> This can be a problem if you have been putting transactions into the 
> original file after you first started using the backup file instead. 
> In that case, there are unique transactions in two different files 
> that have to get (manually) merged.
>
> If you are satisfied that the 
> den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash.20170209101150.gnucash 
> file is complete and accurate, then I would suggest renaming it to 
> something simpler (like den2.gnucash) and deleting all the other 
> gnucash files that are confusing things.
>
> There is a setting that controls how often it makes a backup, and how 
> long it keeps them around.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:24 PM Denis_gmail <dlap227 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dlap227 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     There is something I don't understand in the file names used by
>     GnuCash.
>
>     I must miss something...:-(
>     Today I save the file as usual when exiting (today is >2017-07-20< and
>     the file name used by GnuCash was:)
>
>     den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash.20170209101150.gnucash
>
>     What is even more strange is the fact that this file name NEVER
>     change.
>     It's always the same and not related to the date.
>
>     Any comments ?
>
>     Den
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