Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 January 2018 at 21:36, Gerald Mathias wrote: > " >> >> >> > "If, by restore, you mean open a different file then use File > Open in > GC. Then once you are happy that you have the current file open use File > > Save As to save it with an appropriate name and then it should re-open that > o

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-20 Thread Gerald Mathias
" > > > "If, by restore, you mean open a different file then use File > Open in GC. Then once you are happy that you have the current file open use File > Save As to save it with an appropriate name and then it should re-open that one in future. Keep an eye on the name in the title bar if ever yo

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 January 2018 at 02:24, Gerald Mathias wrote: > My thanks to Derek Atkins for some good pointers (and thank you, too, Bert > Riding). I'm not sure whether I will finally be able to digest the > suggestions sufficiently. > > Derek said, "On November 15 at 16:19 you made some changes to the fi

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-19 Thread Gerald Mathias
My thanks to Derek Atkins for some good pointers (and thank you, too, Bert Riding). I'm not sure whether I will finally be able to digest the suggestions sufficiently. Derek said, "On November 15 at 16:19 you made some changes to the file, which generated the log file mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Thu, January 18, 2018 8:30 pm, Gerald Mathias wrote: > I guess I did something dumb. I wanted to move my GnuCash to a new > computer, so I copied over the mygnucash folder. Now the new files come > out > with these weird names: > > mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180115171928.gnu

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-18 Thread Bert Riding
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:30:52 -1000 Gerald Mathias wrote: > I guess I did something dumb. I wanted to move my GnuCash to a new > computer, so I copied over the mygnucash folder. Now the new files > come out with these weird names: > > mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180115171928.gnucas

Messed up file names

2018-01-18 Thread Gerald Mathias
I guess I did something dumb. I wanted to move my GnuCash to a new computer, so I copied over the mygnucash folder. Now the new files come out with these weird names: mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180115171928.gnucash mygnucash.gnucash.20171115161912.gnucash.20180115171929.log mygnuca