Heidi, Using the mailing list takes a bit of getting used to if you are more used to website type forums. It is an older technology but has some advatages as it is much harder to hijack a mailing list and attach malicious hidden code to it (but not totally impossible). You may find it easier to use from a desktop email client rather than a mobile device.
I also use the mail archive (https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/) in my browser when I need to view the history of a given topic subject as if you choose the message by thread option it tries to link messages which have the same subject line rather than displaying the messages in strict date order which makes it much easier to follow specific conversations. Your email client on your phone may have a setting to list by conversation( emails with the same subject line or a Re:"subject"). To change the Company name, from the GnuCash menu it is File menu item, then the submenu item Properties which will start the dialogue. That dialogue has a tab Business and the first entry on that tab is the edit box Business Name. Change the name to whatever name you want and then hit the OK key to save the changes. That dialogue changes settings which are specific to a given set of books ie, a given <filename>.gnucash data file. The Edit->Preferences menu item changes the preferences for a given user logged in to the operating system but these settings will apply to any sets of books (data files) opened by that user. A commonly used shorthand for menu selections used by responders on the mailing list is "File->Properties->Business" for the above menu selection. You will also sometimes see "<filename>" used This is Backus-Naur notation used in computer science and that is just a placeholder for the name of a specific file. Whatever is between the <> brackets will denote what sort of infomation for which it is a placeholder and you would substitute the appropriate text string name of the file. One thing you may find handy , particularly if you are creating sets of books for more than one entity but it is good practice anyway, is to place the file for each set of books in its own directory/folder in your file heirarchy. GnuCash also creates a logfile and a backup file each time you close it. If you put each data file in its own directory/folder, the log and backup files will be created with in that directory/folder. There are user preferences which you can set to control how many backups and log files are retained and for how long to retain them. These are very useful if you have had a long data entry session and the last entry has caused GnuCash to crash and corrupt the main datafile as you can select the last backup entry before it crashed, and open it instead of the main datafile. The logfile can then be imported after editing it to remove the last transaction which caused the crash to recover all the work up to that point. having these files in their own directory makes recovery from this sort of error much easier. David On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 19:11 -0400, halatch1008 wrote: > David, u said using mailing list is easy. I still can't get answers > on how to edit a company name!! > Heidi > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
