You probably also have a "den.gnucash", a "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash", a "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash", and a "den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash" as well.
When you are using GnuCash to work on the file "foo.gnucash", GnuCash will periodically save a backup file with the name "foo.gnucash.<timestamp>.gnucash". It is easy to get lots of these backup files with varying timestamps in your data directory. If you open up the backup file instead of your original data file, so you are working on "foo.gnucash.<timestamp1>.gnucash", GnuCash will create backup files with the name "foo.gnucash.<timestamp1>.gnucash.<timestamp2>.gnucash". If you decide to use that backup file instead of either your original data file or the first backup file, you'll get three timestamps in the filename. It appears that you ended up working on the backup of the backup of the backup of the backup (for a total of 4 timestamps). This can be a problem if you have been putting transactions into the original file after you first started using the backup file instead. In that case, there are unique transactions in two different files that have to get (manually) merged. If you are satisfied that the den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnu cash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash.20170209101150.gnucash file is complete and accurate, then I would suggest renaming it to something simpler (like den2.gnucash) and deleting all the other gnucash files that are confusing things. There is a setting that controls how often it makes a backup, and how long it keeps them around. On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:24 PM Denis_gmail <dlap...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is something I don't understand in the file names used by > GnuCash. > > I must miss something...:-( > Today I save the file as usual when exiting (today is >2017-07-20< and > the file name used by GnuCash was:) > > > den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash.20170209101150.gnucash > > What is even more strange is the fact that this file name NEVER change. > It's always the same and not related to the date. > > Any comments ? > > Den > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.