[GNC] GNUCash 4.9

[Adrien Monteleone]

Your original file never changes names, unless you do a File > Save As, 
or change it via your OS file manager.

If you ever see a file with a date stamp, it is a backup. Do not try to 
open it in order to work in your main file. If you do, you are instead 
working in a backup copy and the main file never gets changed.

This new backup then becomes your current 'working copy'.

If those truncated file names contain several (not just two) time 
stamps, this means you've done this repeatedly and have now seriously 
branched your file.

If you know for certain you never worked in any previous original or 
backup file after opening a later one, just do a File > Save As on the 
currently open file with a simpler name. Then only open that file to 
start GnuCash in the future. Or better yet, if you are only using a 
single file, just open GnuCash itself. It always defaults to the last 
open file.

If you want a desktop shortcut, make it to the GnuCash app itself, not 
your file. Store that in your Documents as already suggested. (backups, 
logs, and lck files will be stored with it)

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/3/22 6:27 PM, Steve Mortimer wrote:
> Adrien,
> 
> Here is what I have found out.  Each time the program is closed it adds 
> that date and time to the name of the file.  How can this be stopped?
> 
> I can change the name of the file so that there is only one date for the 
> file name and bring it up with all of the transactions in the file.  I 
> close the program and the file now has two dates showing on it.
> 
> Guess there is no original file on the computer.
> Steve