My bad there Geert. Maybe the wiki needs a bit of modification to make it clearer to that it is the meta data and not the actual data files as I did read it as the default location for the user's gnucash accounting data files and perhaps a note distinguishing these from the accounting data files. I don't know if it is possible to perhaps explain to users where an accounting data file will be created if you run through the new file routine and then hit save in the case of a new installation. This is something a novice user could easily do before reading the documentation. I have experimented a bit with my current installation on Linux Mint and it will save a new file in the same folder as any previously opened file was located, i.e. the file you had to close to open a new file. I haven't yet experimented with a clean GNuCash installation to see where that would end up, but I expect it would be in the user's home directory.
I think have noticed on my system that under some circumstances in some applications the file save routine can open in the last location opened or saved to by other programs on an initial opening, but I can't be too sure of that as I don't take much notice normally and simply change to my preferred location. In any case this did not appear to be Anita's problem as she was in the correct folder. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
