[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

[Lorrie Laskey]

Hi David,

Here are my responses.

   1. Retain log file set to 15 days.
   2. No * before the filename in the title bar.

What is this "the amount of time set in that preference section has
passed." that you are referring to? I am not finding this in the
preferences section.



David C

>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:17 PM Lorrie Laskey <lrlaskey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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