[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

[Lorrie Laskey]

Hi Colin,

I understand. Since I don't really need to know the minute and seconds when
a file is saved at this time, I will leave the file name as it is.

My next topic, for another email, is how to set up a budget. I have tried
and watched videos and read documentation but never quite get it to work or
understand what it is doing.

Thanks for  your help this morning.


On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 10:10 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>