[GNC] Frustration

[David H]

File >> Open :-)

On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 09:30, Andrew Ralph via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Hi Team
>
> AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the reports
> for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option.
>
> My other question was again what I thought should be a simple solution.
> Saving data, I have attempted multiple times to do this in various places
> without success.
>
> Have previously opened the files/accounts from the file-drop down which
> works fine but there are only 4 options and I now have 5 accounts/files and
> as I have been playing with different names and accounts to solve the above
> issues now can only open 2 is there a way of “seeing” selecting and opening
> all accounts/files within GnuCash.
>
>
>
> As this has been very limiting have been following instructions in user
> manual to save Accounts to a specific file have followed procedure and
> repeated many times with same result that if no mater which file I click on
> it will only open the last one that was saved. SO below last saved was 2
> Verona, when I click to open Oxley the 2 Verona data is retrieved.
>
>
>
> Sure there is a simple solution that I am not seeing.
>
> Again thanks for your help.
> Andrew
>
> > On 10/02/2021, at 3:41 AM, Michael or Penny Novack <
> stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/8/2021 5:37 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> If you do need to create a new file for some reason, use the
> >> File->Export->Export Account Tree to CSV to export your account
> structure,
> >> the Fuile->NewFile to open a new file.In the setup wizard you cannot
> proceed
> >> if you Clear All but if you select the Simple Check Book
> >
> > There is another alternative, perhaps more intuitive, more similar to
> how it was in the old days.
> >
> > a) COPY the old file BEFORE doing the "close the books" operation  <<
> this file can be used to recreate the prior year reports >>. You can also
> burn a copy of the old file to ROM and send off for safe keeping. That
> would be a guard against alteration of data.
> >
> > b) Run the "close the books" on the new file << name for the coming year
> >> You can now run the end of year reports (start of next year) as of the
> last day of the year. You might want to burn a copy of that (start of year)
> and send it off.
> >
> > c) The transactions for the next year are entered into the new file.
> Note that yo CAN still look at old data. All the "standing accounts" will
> not have been affected by the close the books operation (that zeroes out
> just the income and expense accounts)
> >
> > Michael D Novack
> >
> >
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