[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

Lorrie Laskey lrlaskey at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 21:15:35 EST 2018


Hi David,

Here's what I did.

   - I did a "save as" and renamed the file to "finances.gnucash" then
   closed the file.
   - Reopened Gnucash which opened the very same file.
   - Made a change and saved it which created a log file.
   - Closed the same file and repeated these steps.
   - No backup file was created . Only the original "finances.gnucash" file
   remained.

Is something wrong?



On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 6:32 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Lorrie,
>
> At some point instead of opening the main file "finances.gnucash" it would
> appear you have opened a backup copy of the
> file, which is why it has the form "finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash".
>
> Each time Gnucash is opened, it copies the file "<filename>.gnucash it"
> has just opened and renames it
> "<filename>.gnucash.<date-time stamp>.gnucash" . It also creates a logfile
> "<filename>.gnucash.<date-time stamp>.log"
> which records the changes to the file which occur during the current
> session.
>
> When you exit or when you make changes or use the Save button in GnuCash
> any changes are saved to "<filename>.gnucash"
> In your  case <filename>="finances.gnucash.20181202" instead of
> "finances.gnucash".
>
> You can restore this to the normal situation simply by renaming the file
> you are currently using as the main
> file, "finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash",  as "finances.gnucash".
>
> See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
> for a detailed explanation of this.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
> On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 10:14 -0800, Lorrie Laskey wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> >
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