Randix, Be careful here....
Your gnucash file should be named something along the lines of 2020-12-Dec.gnucash These files with date and time embedded in the name are backup files - it seems like you opened a backup file from Dec 5 and worked on it at some stage??? 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205100356.gnucash 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205073851.gnucash Liz, you beat me to it by about a minute. Regards David H. On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 17:21, randix <butterands...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nelson... although I have GnuCash installed on 2 separate laptops, I only > actively use GnuCash on one laptop (with the data regularly backed up on an > external drive). The other laptop installation is just in case my primary > laptop crashes (and I could then copy one of the backed up data files for > it). > > I have no need to regularly access the GnuCash data file from 2 different > sources, however, just out of curiosity as I've seen the dropbox usage > referenced not infrequently here... When I save my GnuCash it does not > write the same file name each time, eg > > 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205100356.gnucash > 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205073851.gnucash > etc. > > So, for example. > 1. I save GnuCash data on Laptop 1. The save goes to my dropbox directory. > 2. On Laptop 2, I open up the saved GnuCash data file from the dropbox > directory. > 3. All is good. > 4. Then on Laptop 1 I open up GnuCash, and it defaults to the last saved > file. I work on it. Then save it. > 5. All is good > 6. But when I later open up GnuCash on Laptop 2, it's going to > automatically > load the last saved file which will not be the latest file which has a > different name. > 7. So are you saying when you use dropbox in conjunction with GnuCash, the > user has to go to the dropbox directory, and manually load the last saved > file after looking at the saved dates, to make sure it's not loading an > older saved file? > > Hope that's clear. Thanks. As I say, just curious. > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > 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.
