How To Stop GnuCash from Saying It Cannot Find a Specific File

[Bored Accountant]

DaveC49 wrote
> Dear Bored Accountant
> 
>  I would challenge your assumption that the approach used in Audacity for
> deleting files is necessarily an example of best practice or even more
> importantly appropriate for a software packege of the nature of Gnucash. 
> 
> I have just checked five major programs I use regularly (LibreOffice,
> FreeCAD, PHPStorm IDE, NetbeansIDE, Scilab, Google Earth) and none of them
> provides facilities for deleting files in their main File menu item and
> all rely on the user, if they require to delete files, doing it using the
> operating system facilities. This is in many ways a safety feature, as it
> require a deliberate action on the part of the user to delete a file.
> Deleting from a menu way be appropriate in a data manipulation program
> like Audacity where one might make changes, save them and then decide they
> are not useful and require an inprogram method to remove the files.
> 
> In an accounting package a data file may store several years worth of data
> and safety of that data is a much higher priority than the ability to
> easily delete user files which is generally an infrequent occurrence
> (except when you are initially learning Gnucash perhaps). 
> 
> With regard to the recent files list, how is a program to know thatsuch a
> list should be modified, if a file is deleted outside of the program's
> control, e.g. by the operating system. Audacity (2.0.5) by the way has no
> facility for deleting files from within the program. The program only
> knows that that file is not available to load, which it reports to the
> user rather than just crashing (that would be bad programming). 
> 
> It is certainly a nice feature to remove files from the recent list, if
> they can't be found to load. Even nicer to be able to first adjust the
> file location to a new location, if the files were moved for example,
> before deleting it. The priority afforded to this will depend whether this
> operation is something one does regularly or infrequently and the latter
> is generally the case when using Gnucash. It is relatively easy to open
> the file in its new location and it will then appear in the list. 
> 
> I would suggest that rather than bad programming, the lack of a delete
> feature within Gnucash is a deliberate design choice. The retention of the
> file name in the list of recently used files is also potentially useful.
> If the file is not found, and had been moved, you at least know the exact
> name of the file you are looking for. If the warning popup has disappeared
> and the filename deleted, which file are you trying to find? Remember it
> may be several years since you created the file and if you are not a user
> who uses multiple files, you may not even remember what the filename is.
> 
> David Cousens

All right, I see what you are saying. With that being said, I concede to
your point. 



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