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

David H hellvee at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 17:26:16 EST 2020


Glad to hear it!

Cheers David.

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 08:19, Richard Danielson <rdan217 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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