[GNC] My bad

Tony Vanson tonyvans70 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 04:20:42 EDT 2018


Thanks Colin ✌
Cheers


On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> The easiest way is to open the backup file and Save As the original
> file as you have suggested.  You could rename it instead but then you
> would have to use File Open to open it (as GC defaults to opening the
> last file used as you noticed).  Log files are not used by the system
> after they are created so the names don't matter.  I tend not to use
> Save As for backups for precisely the reason you have found, but have
> the backup of the accounts as part of the general backup strategy for
> the whole machine.
>
> Colin
>
> On 1 July 2018 at 08:47, Tony Vanson <tonyvans70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > On 29/06/2018 I backed up my GNU file.
> > I did some editing, entering additional transactions and reconciliations
> on
> > the 30th, and today, without realizing that GNUcash had opened up my
> backup
> > file instead.
> > Is it possible to rename the now up-to-date backup file to the normal
> file
> > I use, if so must it's log file also be renamed or can I open the backup
> > file and do a "save as", specifying the normal file name, without
> screwing
> > up anything.
> > Thanks once again for any advice.
> >
> >
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