[GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

[Bert Riding]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:08:47 +0100
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 06:54:11PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Op donderdag 21 april 2022 16:36:36 CEST schreef Bert Riding:  
> > > On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:45:20 +0100
> > > 
> > > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:  
> > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:54:31PM -0700, john wrote:  
> > > > > > On Apr 20, 2022, at 1:58 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:02:16 +0100
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:  
> > > > > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins
> > > > > >> wrote:  
> > > > > >>>> 1. Is there any way to get GnuCash to save its file, by
> > > > > >>>> default, with an appropriate suffix other than
> > > > > >>>> "gnucash?"  
> > > > > >>> 
> > > > > >>> Sure, tell it to do that.  It only adds ".gnucash" by
> > > > > >>> default, but it won't override what you tell it.  
> > > > > >> 
> > > > > >> Where do you tell it that?  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > "Save As" in the menu should do it.  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Be careful to switch back to the "primary" file after doing
> > > > > that, otherwise the primary will become the snapshot and new
> > > > > work will go into the new file.  
> > > > 
> > > > But that's the ultimate aim! :-
> > > > 
> > > > Instead of having the long, clumsy, "gnucash" suffix one wants
> > > > something tidier like "gc".
> > > > 
> > > > Remember on Linux the whole filename is always displayed so all
> > > > those "gnucash" suffixes get a bit wearing after a while.  
> > > 
> > > In my experience gnucash doesn't care what your data file is
> > > called, with or without any suffix you care to use.  Personally I
> > > use none. Once you have opened the file and gnucash knows of it,
> > > it will show up in the recents list automatically.  
> > 
> > True. GnuCash doesn't care. However operating system file managers
> > in general do care. They use the extension to figure out which
> > application to launch when you double-click a file. But if you
> > don't use that feature (and many don't with GnuCash as it remembers
> > which file you last opened) you're ok without file extension. 
> However this all begs the question.  *How* do I get GnuCash to save a
> file without a file extension?  As I said back up this thread
> somewhere it insists on adding ".gnucash" whatever I do to try and
> discourage it.
> 
> Are people who say they save without an extension just seeing the
> Windows default of not showing extensions maybe?
> 

If I need to make a new file, I save it in gnucash and it gets the
.gnucash extension.  I close the file, rename it without an extension,
then open it by using the Open dialog under File or by directly calling
gnucash from the command line with the new filename as a parameter. 

I use linux/X, YMMV.

-- 
Bert Riding       
reriding at xmission.com