Then go look for yourself: Open your data file in a text editor and search for a transaction description. Lines beginning with <trn:description> are the description part of a transaction. See if you find the text anywhere else.
Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 14, 2023, at 10:37 AM, sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Oh. OK. > > But that doesn't match up with the assertions that users have made that the > auto complete "resets" with the new version of GnuCash. If the auto complete > feature is regenerated as you state, then that wouldn't be happening. An > upgraded install would have a complete auto complete data set based on > existing data. Others have said that this isn't the case, though. > > So, I don't know whose experience is more true. > > David T. > On Sep 14, 2023, at 8:20 PM, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > On Sep 13, 2023, at 21:01, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > In another thread, it was noted that the latest version of auto complete in > version 5 of GnuCash restarts the auto completion data store. That gave me > pause, as I make use of the feature extensively to speed the entry of > transactions for a large number of stocks and mutual funds. (I start each > transaction with the ticker symbol, making each very quick to enter) > > As a non programmer, I wonder idly whether there would be some way of > grabbing the information out of the earlier copy, and pushing that data into > the newer version. It would certainly help my use case. > > Could a normal (well, on some levels) person actually locate this data store > in a file somehow, and then-- oh, I don't know-- copy and paste that > information into another file to jumpstart their 5.x experience? > > David, > > The auto-completion data store is not and never has been saved. It's > generated from the transaction and current-account-split text fields when you > open a register tab. > > Regards, > John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
