Glad to hear it! Cheers David.
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 08:19, Richard Danielson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks David, > That worked. I know that I've seen mention often about backup files. > Guess my action in September resulted in that. I hadn't done anything in > 2020 except moving the program on a new drive in September. I'm now caught > up from Dec/19 to the end of Jan/20. Thanks for your help. > > Rick > > > On 2020-12-08 3:35 a.m., David H wrote: > > Rick, > > 'my name'.gnucash.20200912164616.gnucash indicates a backup file created > by gnucash on 12 Sept 2020 at 16:46:16 aka 4:46:16pm - you should be > looking for the 'my name'.gnucash file which will be your primary gnucash > file.... > > If you haven't lost any txns since this date and time you could just open > the file and do a Save As 'my name'.gnucash and continue on your merry way > - I'd be double checking to ensure you don't have any missing txns tho > first. > > Cheers David H. > > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 18:01, Richard Danielson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I recently moved my computer system (and gnucash) from ubuntu 20.04 to >> debian 10. After installing debian, I copied my /home directory to the >> new system. Previous to the move I had upgraded to version 4.2 on >> flatpak. >> >> After the transition, the file name for the gnucash data file became >> extended to something like 'my name'.gnucash.20200912164616.gnucash. >> That was probably related to the last update to gnucash which I made >> before the change in operating system. >> >> Now the update log files are still looking like this - 'my >> name'.gnucash.20200912171222.gnucash. The most recent file name seems >> to be 'my name'.gnucash.20200912171222.gnucash.20201208000513.gnucash >> and the most recent log file seems to be 'my >> name'.gnucash.20200912171222.gnucash.20201208000514.log. >> >> Without doing irreparable damage to things, can I change the name of the >> gnucash file to 'my name.gnucash or something simple like that without >> wrecking things? I should note that since my original post about a year >> ago, and after Adrien's admonitions, I did do reconciliation of a couple >> of accounts (bank and credit cards) and just kept the system account >> going in the same file from 2019 to 2020. Therefore I would not like to >> shoot myself in the foot (or the eye) by destroying the data file. >> Thanks in advance. >> >> As an aside to my original note last year on the first rule of carpentry >> (...there's always time to do a job twice), I would like to offer the >> second rule of carpentry: If you cut a board too short, cut it again. >> >> Rick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ 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.
