[GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

[David H]

Rick,

'my name'.gnucash.20200912164616.gnucash indicates a backup file created by
gnucash on 12 Sept 2020 at 16:46:16 aka 4:46:16pm - you should be looking
for the 'my name'.gnucash file which will be your primary gnucash file....

If you haven't lost any txns since this date and time you could just open
the file and do a Save As 'my name'.gnucash and continue on your merry way
- I'd be double checking to ensure you don't have any missing txns tho
first.

Cheers David H.


On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 18:01, Richard Danielson <rdan217 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently moved my computer system (and gnucash) from ubuntu 20.04 to
> debian 10.  After installing debian, I copied my /home directory to the
> new system.  Previous to the move I had upgraded to version 4.2 on flatpak.
>
> After the transition, the file name for the gnucash data file became
> extended to something like 'my name'.gnucash.20200912164616.gnucash.
> That was probably related to the last update to gnucash which I made
> before the change in operating system.
>
> Now the update log files are still looking like this - 'my
> name'.gnucash.20200912171222.gnucash.  The most recent file name seems
> to be 'my name'.gnucash.20200912171222.gnucash.20201208000513.gnucash
> and the most recent log file seems to be 'my
> name'.gnucash.20200912171222.gnucash.20201208000514.log.
>
> Without doing irreparable damage to things, can I change the name of the
> gnucash file to 'my name.gnucash or something simple like that without
> wrecking things?  I should note that since my original post about a year
> ago, and after Adrien's admonitions, I did do reconciliation of a couple
> of accounts (bank and credit cards) and just kept the system account
> going in the same file from 2019 to 2020.  Therefore I would not like to
> shoot myself in the foot (or the eye) by destroying the data file.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> As an aside to my original note last year on the first rule of carpentry
> (...there's always time to do a job twice), I would like to offer the
> second rule of carpentry:  If you cut a board too short, cut it again.
>
> Rick
>
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