[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 13:09:55 EST 2018


On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 18:01, Lorrie Laskey <lrlaskey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> The "save" option did get focus once I made a change and saved the file.
>
> However, the file name doesn't look right. See below. It is using the name that I created when I used "save as" though I used "save" but the log file name looks right. What is happening? Is this a problem?
>
> finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash
> finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash.20181202095503

If you used Save As to save to that file, then that file becomes the
current file in use so when you later use Save it will save back to
that file again (and that is the file that will be re-opened
automatically when you open Gnucash).  Again this is exactly the same
as will happen with MS Word for example.  Save As means "save the file
with this new name and then keep using the new name".  If you want to
give it a different name then use Save As just once to save it with
the name you want and thereafter Save will save back to that file.

Colin


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