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

[David Carlson]

I am not a computer programmer, but I think that what I want to see does
not require any additional data to be saved within the data file.  I think
that it could be implemented as a minor program enhancement.

Of course, to match the wealth of information for example that Libre Office
can provide about a currently open data file might be another matter, and
perhaps that might be called feature creep.  I think that is a higher level
but I would certainly welcome such info as number of transactions, number
of accounts, default currency and perhaps other basic info as well.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:47 AM Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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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