Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread John Layman
=== snip === You can also set up desktop shortcuts that open different specific files. === snip === Yes. In my own message I meant 'shortcut' (as opposed to 'bookmark'). ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread John Layman
I have a similar situation to yours, only running on windows. My GnuCash books are called simply 'Business' and 'Personal' and are stored in the same location. I created separate bookmarks to launch GnuCash for each. That makes it a simple matter to have both books open at the same time.

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread john
> On Apr 20, 2022, at 1:58 AM, Liz wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:02:16 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: 1. Is there any way to get GnuCash to save its file, by default, with an appropriate suffix other than

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 06:58:30PM +1000, Liz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:02:16 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > > > > 1. Is there any way to get GnuCash to save its file, by default, > > > > with an appropriate suffix

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 20:20 Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > ... Thanks much, Derek. -Tom ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Liz
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:02:16 +0100 Chris Green wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > > 1. Is there any way to get GnuCash to save its file, by default, > > > with an appropriate suffix other than "gnucash?" > > > > Sure, tell it to do that. It only

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:59:04PM -0500, David Carlson wrote: > I would like to add a question to Tom's list. Is there any way to easily > make periodic backups of SQLite data files? > The same as you back up any files! :-) I just run incremental backups of all important/significant files in

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-20 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 09:20:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > 1. Is there any way to get GnuCash to save its file, by default, with an > > appropriate suffix other than "gnucash?" > > Sure, tell it to do that. It only adds ".gnucash" by default, but it > won't override what you tell it.

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread Liz
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:06:53 +0200 James Thorpe wrote: > I have two questions regarding usage of the file browser dialog to > open a gnucash accounts file. > > > > many thanks > James, one way of dealing with this is to make changes to your user menu on Linux. Not that I remember how to do

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The File menu has a 'recent files' list at the bottom. That gets populated on each File > Open of a different file. (or the same file in a different location) You only need to do File > Open once per file, and then afterwards, just select it from the list. GnuCash remembers where it saved it,

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread James Thorpe
Thanks Gyle, But I'm not trying to save the file I'm trying to open it. So I have one gnucash file I'm working with and I want to open a different one. So it's the file "open" rather than "save" dialog that I'm looking at. kind regards James On 2022/04/20 09:29, Gyle McCollam wrote:

Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread Gyle McCollam
James, You can use File/SaveAs and choose any name you want for the name. The program opens the last saved name automatically, but if you look at the file list it will be easy to figure out which file you need to open. This way it will not be Gnucash, but whatever you named it. As for

[GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

2022-04-20 Thread James Thorpe
I have two questions regarding usage of the file browser dialog to open a gnucash accounts file. Because I manage my business and personal accounts in separate files I am often using this functionality to select a different gnucash accounts file and there are two things that would greatly