[GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Sun Dec 6 04:00:00 EST 2020


On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 12:16:13 -0600 (CST)
randix <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I save my GnuCash it does not
> write the same file name each time, eg 
> 
> 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205100356.gnucash
> 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205073851.gnucash
> etc.

You have a problem.
You are working on backups.
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_is_my_file_name_getting_longer_and_longer.3F


> 7. So are you saying when you use dropbox in conjunction with
> GnuCash, the user has to go to the dropbox directory, and manually
> load the last saved file after looking at the saved dates, to make
> sure it's not loading an older saved file?
> 
> Hope that's clear.  Thanks.  As I say, just curious.  


When you can work out why you are using backup files, this problem will
"go away".

Liz


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