[GNC] Closing and reopening Gnucash

[Adrien Monteleone]

Yep. You kept opening a backup file, which concatenated a new backup file name, and so on and so on. (see how long that file name is with all the coded dates?)

It also looks like you were working on some external drive because /media/user/xxx is usually where *buntus mount a transient external, likely a USB thumb drive or some type of flash card.

The problem might be if you repeatedly remove the external drive. Each time you plug it back in, it might get assigned a new URI. (that long part in the file path, which really should be a UUID that is fixed to the drive, but perhaps it’s random, I’d have to refresh my memory of the *buntu specs on mounting USB) Thus if random, each time you plug it in, GnuCash won’t be able to find the file - the path will be different.

If this is a randomly assigned path instead of a fixed UUID, you can set a UDEV rule to mount it to a persistent location when it’s plugged in. There are plenty of articles on UDEV rules on ubuntuforums.org and elsewhere on the web.

There might also be an option to set a rule in /etc/fstab, but I never used that route for anything but permanently/network attached external storage. So I’m not sure how it works with transient drives.

Note, you should never have to select a file when opening Gnucash. It should just open the last used file automatically. (if it can find it, which it seems it hasn’t been able to for the above reasons)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 1, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Dick Barmann <dick at stripingthetown.com> wrote:
> 
> I am using Linux. Kubuntu 18.04. I went to the launcher and opened Office and the Gnucash and the opening window brings up the opening window and the file says.
> 
> The file/URI /media/user/b838be26-9cd0-43b2-8743-94a6b55f90a3/home/user/Striping/BusinessGnuCash/2016/2017/2018/May22.gnucash.20180524171054.gnucash.20180612210659.gnucash.20180617225245.gnucash.20180624105820.gnucash.20180625161704.gnucash.20180717145701.gnucash.20180717220322.gnucash.20180718172031.gnucash.20180726182003.gnucash could not be found.
> 
> I evidently am saving the files in the wrong place. Richard
> 
> 
> On 07/31/2018 02:33 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> Richard,
>> 
>> Just open the app from the app launcher icon, not the file. It will re-open the last used file automatically.
>> 
>> What OS are you using?
>> 
>> On Windows this would be from Start > Programs > Gnucash
>> On Linux you’d use your menu or Applications screen and click the GnuCash icon
>> On Mac, you’d click the GnuCash icon from either Launchpad or the Applications folder
>> 
>> All three systems provide a quick-launch or dock area where you might have placed the icon, and most allow you to have a launcher icon on your desktop. These both depend on how you installed the app and if you placed launchers there.
>> 
>> Just for info, the data file ends in .gnucash, the log files in .log. You can safely delete any log file but perhaps the most recent. (part of the file name for each is a date and time before the .log extension) you can also use a detail or list view in your file browser to see file modification/creation dates/times and sort accordingly if you ever need.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Jul 30, 2018, at 6:53 PM, Richard Barmann <dick at stripingthetown.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I want to reopen Gnucash the next day I have to scroll through the
>>> files to try to pick out the latest file. T trid closing with the Quit
>>> at the bottom of the page and also tried to Save as but they always have
>>> to scroll through to open the latest file. Some of the files names are
>>> so long that I cannot tell if they are log fills. and I have to guess
>>> until I find the last one.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for any help as this is a time killer when I am in a hurry.
>>> 
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