Hidden files

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 13, 2017, at 8:04 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Alan Schold wrote:
> 
>> I know this has been asked and answered before, but I am setting up
>> GnuCash on a new computer, and I forgot where the files that control the
>> preferences and architecture are located. I remember they start with a "."
>> and had a special way they needed to be handled, but that's all. Could you
>> jog my memory?
> 
> Alan,
> 
>  If you're writing about dot files you're runing a linux distribution. The
> command to list hidden files is ls -a (for all). I'd look first in
> ~/.gnucash.

Umm, no, Windows writes to ~/.gnucash too. MacOS is Unix and has plenty of dot files, the bundle just redirects that one to ~/Library/Application Support.

Regards,
John Ralls