Messed up file names

[Bert Riding]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:30:52 -1000
Gerald Mathias <mathias at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> I guess I did something dumb. I wanted to move my GnuCash to a new
> computer, so I copied over the mygnucash folder. Now the new files
> come out with these weird names:
> 
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180115171928.gnucash
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180115171929.log
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180116114841.log
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180116115105.gnucash
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180116115105.log
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.LCK
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161913.log
> mygnucash.gnucash.20171229114235.log
> 
> I guess November 15 is the date I did the copy. Is there any way to
> get rid of that part of the naming process?
> 
> I had also considered starting over, from 2018-01-01 on the new
> computer. Maybe that is the better option? Would simply erasing all
> the current accounts and setting them up anew do the trick?
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In linux I name my gnucash account file whatever I want to name it,
even without the .gnucash extension, then start gnucash and open that
file.  Thereafter it is the file that is opened when I start the
program.  All those .log and .LCK files are backups and lock files and
need not concern you unless you need to recover something lost.  There
is a configuration option that allows you to set the number saved to
your preference under the General section of the preferences dialog.

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Bert Riding       
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