Oh, I see now his mention of Kubuntu was one of his messages only sent to me
and not the list.
Richard - here’s another example of why you should reply-to-list or reply-all.
Other people want to help, but they aren’t privy to all your particulars
because your message didn’t go out to the list..
He did indicate a few messages ago that he’s using Kubuntu 18.04.
But overall, good advice, regardless.
FYI, from another recent discussion I glean from one of the devs that those
transaction log files are not needed or even useful once a successful save has
taken place. That is, only the most
On 08/02/2018 07:24 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> First, please reply to the list so others can benefit from the conversation.
>
> Absolutely you can save your file in a new location.
>
> Where would you like to save it? Somewhere in your Home folder tree is what
> I’d think most peo
Richard,
Some versions of GnuCash are not able to find GnuCash data files that are
in network servers or USB removable drives. There is a bug report about
that.
However, If your file manager program is able to mount and view the
directory containing the data file, you can either double click the
First, please reply to the list so others can benefit from the conversation.
Absolutely you can save your file in a new location.
Where would you like to save it? Somewhere in your Home folder tree is what I’d
think most people use.
Does it need to be on a removable drive or can it
Yep. You kept opening a backup file, which concatenated a new backup file name,
and so on and so on. (see how long that file name is with all the coded dates?)
It also looks like you were working on some external drive because
/media/user/xxx is usually where *buntus mount a transient external,
Richard,
It sounds as though you may be opening the latest backup file instead of
your main data file. The data file should be named something like
RichardsData.gnucash (or whatever you named it). The backup filenames
will contain strings of numbers, which are date stamps indicating when
they
Richard,
Just open the app from the app launcher icon, not the file. It will re-open the
last used file automatically.
What OS are you using?
On Windows this would be from Start > Programs > Gnucash
On Linux you’d use your menu or Applications screen and click the GnuCash icon
On Mac, you’d cli
In my experience, Gnucash always opens the last file I had open. How are you
calling Gnucash such that it doesn't open the last file?
David
P.s. What version, what OS?
On June 3, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
When I boot up and want to go to Gnucash I have to hunt through the
fil
