Yes it did ask for the old name. But I finally manage to get things in
order and delete a huge number of files.
What a difference ;-)
Thanks Colin
Le 2017-08-09 à 16:12, Colin Law a écrit :
Rather than renaming the current working file I suggest using File >
Save As to save it with the new name (make sure you are saving to the
right directory). Then when you open Gnucash the next time it will
automatically re-open that file.
Colin
On 9 August 2017 at 20:41, Denis_gmail <dlap...@gmail.com> wrote:
No wonder I was confused! Really appreciate your help and explanations of
what went wrong.
Just to be on the safe side I'll make a copy of all those files before
deleting.
Thanks again
Den
Le 2017-08-09 à 13:37, Buddha Buck a écrit :
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.gnucash.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
<mailto: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
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