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

[Richard Danielson]

Thanks David,
That worked.  I know that I've seen mention often about backup files.  
Guess my action in September resulted in that.  I hadn't done anything 
in 2020 except moving the program on a new drive in September.  I'm now 
caught up from Dec/19 to the end of Jan/20.  Thanks for your help.

Rick


On 2020-12-08 3:35 a.m., David H wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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