No wonder I was confused! Really appreciate your help and explanations
of what went wrong.
Just to be on the safe side I'll make a copy of all those files before
deleting.
Thanks again
Den
Le 2017-08-09 à 13:37, Buddha Buck a écrit :
You probably also have a "den.gnucash", a
"den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash", a
"den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash", and a
"den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash"
as well.
When you are using GnuCash to work on the file "foo.gnucash", GnuCash
will periodically save a backup file with the name
"foo.gnucash.<timestamp>.gnucash". It is easy to get lots of these
backup files with varying timestamps in your data directory.
If you open up the backup file instead of your original data file, so
you are working on "foo.gnucash.<timestamp1>.gnucash", GnuCash will
create backup files with the name
"foo.gnucash.<timestamp1>.gnucash.<timestamp2>.gnucash". If you decide
to use that backup file instead of either your original data file or
the first backup file, you'll get three timestamps in the filename. It
appears that you ended up working on the backup of the backup of the
backup of the backup (for a total of 4 timestamps).
This can be a problem if you have been putting transactions into the
original file after you first started using the backup file instead.
In that case, there are unique transactions in two different files
that have to get (manually) merged.
If you are satisfied that the
den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash.20170209101150.gnucash
file is complete and accurate, then I would suggest renaming it to
something simpler (like den2.gnucash) and deleting all the other
gnucash files that are confusing things.
There is a setting that controls how often it makes a backup, and how
long it keeps them around.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:24 PM Denis_gmail <dlap...@gmail.com
<mailto:dlap...@gmail.com>> wrote:
There is something I don't understand in the file names used by
GnuCash.
I must miss something...:-(
Today I save the file as usual when exiting (today is >2017-07-20< and
the file name used by GnuCash was:)
den.gnucash.20161107142750.gnucash.20161201140745.gnucash.20170208132409.gnucash.20170209101150.gnucash
What is even more strange is the fact that this file name NEVER
change.
It's always the same and not related to the date.
Any comments ?
Den
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