[GNC] Help accessing data file

[R Losey]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> 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
>

On a Mac, one right-clicks on the file and selects the "Get Info" to pull
up information about the file.

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