On 6/29/2017 8:10 PM, John and Diane wrote:
Hi
New to gnucash.
Notice there are many saved data files on desktop after each use of
Gnucash. If I put them in a folder named 'Bookkeeping", the next time
I try to use gnucash, I get a message the program can't find the data
on the desktop. How do I know what files to leave on the desktop and
which ones I can put in a folder and which folder? My desktop is
covered in the backups at this moment.
What is the correct way to save all these many, many files so the
program can find the data?
I only use this for keeping the checkbook and credit card ledgers and
reconciling them. Not a business.
Thank you,
Diane
This is more perhaps a question about how you manage data files on your
computer (all your data files) rather than just about gnucash. Perhaps
people who rarely use their computer to create data files might leave
them lying around on the desktop. But (for example) most of us have
hundreds to thousands of documents on our computer. It would be insane
trying to find them if just left in a heap. So they are organized into
suitably named directories (file folders) within some master directories
(file folders) like "documents", "pictures", etc.
I have a master "gnucash" folder and within that a separate folder for
each set of books (besides my own, I do the bookkeeping for a few other
entities). If you have created a folder into which the first time you
"save as" your gnucash books file, gnucash will put all those recovery
files, the file lock, etc. into that same folder.
Michael D Novack
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