[GNC] Files

[David Cousens]

Jim,

By the look of it you may not entering a general name for your set of books
when you first open the file. The format of the main file should be
"<filename>.gnucash" where <filename> is a name you enter when you first
save the file after you have created a new file/set of books. 

It is not really clear in the most recent GTK dialogs, that you have to
enter a filename in the box labelled Name in the Save dialog as the prompt
does not come up in that box by default to encourage you to enter the
filename and it is fairly easy just to hit the Save button without doing so.

If this is the case and you do not want to recreate the files, it is likely
you will have a file named .gnucash. You may not be able to see it if you
are using the file explorer ( usually nemo or nautilus but will depend on
your Linux distribution) as files starting with a "." are usually hidden by
default. If you type Ctrl-h in the main pane of your file explorer, you will
enable seeing the hidden files in the directory. You should find a file
named ".gnucash". 

In a shell the "ls -al" command should list all files including hidden
files. You should then find the file structures listed in the reference Liz
gave you. If you have a file ".gncash" rename it to <filename>.gnucash where
filename is a descriptive name for your books and similarly for the related
backup and log files described in the above reference. 

It is generally a good idea to put the gnucash data files for a single set
of accounts in their own directory as it simplifies any file maintenance
operations.

David Cousens



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