[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

[Lorrie Laskey]

Hi David,

I think I found it. The autosave time interval is set to 5 mins.

I tested it. I made a change. Wait 5 mins and it mostly works. A log file
was created at 5 mins and the finance.gnucash file was updated at 5 mins.
However, the finance.gnucash file did not append the date,time,min and sec
to the file name.  Does this mean that something is wrong?





On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:19 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lorrie,
>
> I am away from my computer right now so I cannot confirm the exact
> wording, but it s something like how often to make backups.  I  dont
> remember the default. It may be only 5 minutes, I have it set to 30 minutes
> but I religiously do manual saves before certain activities such as imports.
>
> My tablet is messing with me, excuse the sloppy writing.
>
> David C
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 9:34 PM Lorrie Laskey <lrlaskey at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 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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