[GNC] RFE: GnuCash's File> Properties menubar item

[Glenn Fowler]

Ok, so in your use case you use different filepaths? I get it... financial
data is mission critical. However, I took a different approach. GnuCash
itself saves three deep backups in my config. That will cover any user
error mistakes. Daily I have a script which backs up all my books to a
backup drive to cover hardware failure, disk corruption, etc. That folder
is also encrypted and synced to the cloud.
Any scenario is covered.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Stan and Glen, Thanks for the comments.
>
> I do like Stan's suggestion.
>
> Glen, One issue that I am concerned about is that to see where the
> currently open file is located it would be necessary to use a gimmick such
> as File>Save As, which has some potential hazards if an unintended file
> write command is executed.
>
> I would invite further comments.
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 8:46 AM Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to keep file information where it belongs, in
>> the file manager? My opinion is that would be out of the scope of GnuCash
>> and give it feature creep.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 8:36 AM David Carlson <
>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For some other programs' files the equivalent menubar item, when applied
>>> to
>>> a data file shows several basic properties under the general tab such as
>>> Filename, Type, Default program to open the file, File Location,
>>> Modified,
>>> Accessed and Size.  With some file managers and for some programs and
>>> filetypes there is much more information about the particular datafile.
>>>
>>> I do see these properties when I click on a filetype ".Gnucash" in a
>>> filemanager.
>>>
>>> I would also like to see the same information when I click on the menubar
>>> of an open data file, particularly location and size.  This would be
>>> extremely useful when there may be several data files with identical or
>>> very similar filenames in the MRU list.
>>>
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> David Carlson
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