Hi David, Here's what I did.
- I did a "save as" and renamed the file to "finances.gnucash" then closed the file. - Reopened Gnucash which opened the very same file. - Made a change and saved it which created a log file. - Closed the same file and repeated these steps. - No backup file was created . Only the original "finances.gnucash" file remained. Is something wrong? On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 6:32 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Lorrie, > > At some point instead of opening the main file "finances.gnucash" it would > appear you have opened a backup copy of the > file, which is why it has the form "finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash". > > Each time Gnucash is opened, it copies the file "<filename>.gnucash it" > has just opened and renames it > "<filename>.gnucash.<date-time stamp>.gnucash" . It also creates a logfile > "<filename>.gnucash.<date-time stamp>.log" > which records the changes to the file which occur during the current > session. > > When you exit or when you make changes or use the Save button in GnuCash > any changes are saved to "<filename>.gnucash" > In your case <filename>="finances.gnucash.20181202" instead of > "finances.gnucash". > > You can restore this to the normal situation simply by renaming the file > you are currently using as the main > file, "finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash", as "finances.gnucash". > > See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html > for a detailed explanation of this. > > David Cousens > > > On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 10:14 -0800, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > > > I understand. Since I don't really need to know the minute and seconds > when > > a file is saved at this time, I will leave the file name as it is. > > > > My next topic, for another email, is how to set up a budget. I have tried > > and watched videos and read documentation but never quite get it to work > or > > understand what it is doing. > > > > Thanks for your help this morning. > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 10:10 AM Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 18:01, Lorrie Laskey <lrlas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Colin, > > > > > > > > The "save" option did get focus once I made a change and saved the > file. > > > > > > > > However, the file name doesn't look right. See below. It is using the > > > > > > name that I created when I used "save as" though I used "save" but the > log > > > file name looks right. What is happening? Is this a problem? > > > > > > > > finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash > > > > finances.gnucash.20181202.gnucash.20181202095503 > > > > > > If you used Save As to save to that file, then that file becomes the > > > current file in use so when you later use Save it will save back to > > > that file again (and that is the file that will be re-opened > > > automatically when you open Gnucash). Again this is exactly the same > > > as will happen with MS Word for example. Save As means "save the file > > > with this new name and then keep using the new name". If you want to > > > give it a different name then use Save As just once to save it with > > > the name you want and thereafter Save will save back to that file. > > > > > > Colin > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.