[GNC] File storage locations

[David Cousens]

Phyllis,

It is good practice to keep each individual set of books in its own
folder/directory which will avoid accidentally deleting the file
backups and logs for another set of books.

It should be possible to create a shortcut for each set of books on
your desktop/taskbar/menu which will open the specific file for that st
of books. Google's AI details a procedure for doing this on Windows

1. Desktop Shortcut:
Create a shortcut: Right-click on your desktop and select "New" ->
"Shortcut".
Enter the command: In the shortcut's target field, enter the path to
the GnuCash executable followed by the path to your GnuCash file. For
example:
Code

    "C:\Program Files\GnuCash\bin\gnucash.exe"
"C:\Users\YourName\Documents\My GnuCash Files\mydata.gnucash"

If your are on Linux the procedure is somewhat similar. In Linux Mint
for example you can create a Menu entry for each file specifying the
command and path to the file in the Menu editor as "gnucash <path to
file>". Then you can simply slect which set of books to open 

On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 14:31 -0500, Phyllis Bruce wrote:
> I recently ran into some difficulty with one of my gnucash accounts
> that
> had me needing to re-reconcile from April 2024 forward.  I have now
> printed
> all the statements for my asset and liability accounts.  I deleted
> the log
> files and began the job of downloading transactions and reconciling
> each
> account.  I know, I have more time than brains.  One of the
> unanticipated
> results of just deleting the data in one swell foop is that I also
> deleted
> the data in another account.  My bad!
> 
> Here's the question:  *Does Gnucash allow for different file
> locations for
> different data sets?*  Example - I have a data set for my personal
> finances
> and a different data set for an organization for which I am the
> treasurer.
> I THINK in deleting log files for my personal dataset I also deleted
> some
> log files for the organization since they are in the same directory..
> Accounts in that second set were no longer reconciled though the
> actual
> transactions still exist.
> 
> Any advice you can offer will be appreciated.
> Thanks, Phylls B
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