[GNC] Help accessing data file

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 2/24/2025 4:25 PM, Anna Scott wrote:
> Hello GNUcash peeps … I hope you’re well.  You’ve been so helpful in the past and I can’t find the answer to my question so crossing my fingers you’ll make sense of it.
> I’m running
>
> GNUcash
> Version: 5.3
> Build ID: 5.3+(2023-06-26)
> On a MacBook Pro. Sequoia 15.1.1
>
> Here’s the thing … I click the GNU icon to start the program and I happily work away until ... whenever I access a Report then close out of GNU I’m left with an extra additional GNU icon on the desktop.  Ive been just deleting this but think that’s not good practice and I should understand what’s really happening. I thought I could it in change a report setting but can’t figure it out - why is this happening?
>
> Thanks in advance -
>
> Anna Scott
> Sent from my Mac

Step one --- can you identify this icon? In other words, what sort of 
object is it pointing to? (a gnucash file, an execution of gnucash? 
what) I can't tell you how you do that on a Mac. Under Windows, I would 
right click on the icon opening a windows asking what I wanted to with 
the object, one of those options being "properties" (look at its 
properties). That would show you what sort of object it was. I am sure 
that there is a way you do this under your Mac's OS.

Then we'll have more information than "icon put on the desktop by gnucash"

Michael D Novack