[GNC] Is there a way to handle same-named GnuCash files sensibly?
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Tue May 3 12:37:20 EDT 2022
GnuCash names files in ~/.local/share/gnucash/books according to the
filename of the GnuCash data file. This is a bit of a problem for me
because I expect to be able to have multiple GnuCash data files with
the same name in different places.
For example I keep church building accounts in a file called
'building.gnucash' with the accounts for each year in a different
sub-directory of my church accounts system.
I.e. there are:-
/home/chris/pcc/2020/building.gnucash
/home/chris/pcc/2021/building.gnucash
/home/chris/pcc/2022/building.gnucash
Is there any way around this problem? As it is various configuration
settings get changed as I move round my accounts, in particular the
reporting period.
Keeping all the church's accounts, and correspondence and other files
for one particular year makes sense for me (and the auditor!).
I *could* add the year to the GnuCash data file name but that does
make it rather long and clumsy, and it makes for redundant information
which Mr Codd doesn't like! :-)
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Chris Green
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