File >> Open :-) On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 09:30, Andrew Ralph via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> Hi Team > > AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the reports > for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option. > > My other question was again what I thought should be a simple solution. > Saving data, I have attempted multiple times to do this in various places > without success. > > Have previously opened the files/accounts from the file-drop down which > works fine but there are only 4 options and I now have 5 accounts/files and > as I have been playing with different names and accounts to solve the above > issues now can only open 2 is there a way of “seeing” selecting and opening > all accounts/files within GnuCash. > > > > As this has been very limiting have been following instructions in user > manual to save Accounts to a specific file have followed procedure and > repeated many times with same result that if no mater which file I click on > it will only open the last one that was saved. SO below last saved was 2 > Verona, when I click to open Oxley the 2 Verona data is retrieved. > > > > Sure there is a simple solution that I am not seeing. > > Again thanks for your help. > Andrew > > > On 10/02/2021, at 3:41 AM, Michael or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > On 2/8/2021 5:37 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > > >> > >> If you do need to create a new file for some reason, use the > >> File->Export->Export Account Tree to CSV to export your account > structure, > >> the Fuile->NewFile to open a new file.In the setup wizard you cannot > proceed > >> if you Clear All but if you select the Simple Check Book > > > > There is another alternative, perhaps more intuitive, more similar to > how it was in the old days. > > > > a) COPY the old file BEFORE doing the "close the books" operation << > this file can be used to recreate the prior year reports >>. You can also > burn a copy of the old file to ROM and send off for safe keeping. That > would be a guard against alteration of data. > > > > b) Run the "close the books" on the new file << name for the coming year > >> You can now run the end of year reports (start of next year) as of the > last day of the year. You might want to burn a copy of that (start of year) > and send it off. > > > > c) The transactions for the next year are entered into the new file. > Note that yo CAN still look at old data. All the "standing accounts" will > not have been affected by the close the books operation (that zeroes out > just the income and expense accounts) > > > > Michael D Novack > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
