Lorrie, I am away from my computer right now so I cannot confirm the exact wording, but it s something like how often to make backups. I dont remember the default. It may be only 5 minutes, I have it set to 30 minutes but I religiously do manual saves before certain activities such as imports.
My tablet is messing with me, excuse the sloppy writing. David C On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 9:34 PM Lorrie Laskey <lrlas...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi David, > > Here are my responses. > > 1. Retain log file set to 15 days. > 2. No * before the filename in the title bar. > > What is this "the amount of time set in that preference section has > passed." that you are referring to? I am not finding this in the > preferences section. > > > > David C > >> >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:17 PM Lorrie Laskey <lrlas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> _______________________________________________ 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. 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