[GNC] Best practice to change name of GnuCash file ("book")?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 12/20/2022 10:22 AM, Eric Chapman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I named my file incorrectly. I guess in GnuCash the data file is 
> called a "book". I'm using .xml.
>
> Should I export and import with a new name (as discussed here in issue 
> tracker: https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android/issues/634)? 

1) You do NOT have to anything so complicated to rename a file. Just do 
a file rename.

2) The file extension has to be correct ONLY if you intend to "click on 
object and expect the computer to select the application associated with 
objects of that type".

3) After renaming the file, gnucash will not know how to find it until 
you :"tell" gnucash the nae. In other words, you start gnucash and use 
file=>open and enter the path/name of the file as renamed (and possibly 
relocated)

Michael D Novack