Thank you Bill and Omari for your generous help. I found the culprit under Documents and Setting/<User> and it was named .ledger-cache. Sure enough, the path to the original set of books was on the first line, and even tho it had binary bits I did edit the path using Textpad and ledger queried the new set of books. I fumble around Windows, I prefer the command line of FreeBSD but I'm trying to create some video tutorials of basic Ledger commands as part of a YouTube series of videos I'm doing for basic accounting skills for young entrepreneurs.
My son has started a new business and asked for help in keeping a set of books. From my own youth, I remembered how bookkeeping and basic accounting seemed the least important of my tasks when I too started a small construction business. I'm trying to give him some basic tools to keep what can become a critical business skill from interfering with the immediate job of working in his business so that soon he'll realize that working on his business is what will make it thrive - and then his books will become pivotal. But like many young people, his computer savvy is all GUI windows based, so before I throw him into Unix or a variety thereof, I thought I would wet his appetite with the power of what is seemingly such a simple tool as ledger in a windows environment. The ledger itself is easily created using TextPad which has enough of a windows feel to it that he may not holler to loud when I get him on the DOS command line. Anyway, I ramble. Thanks again you guys. The open source community is such a beacon of light in a world of greed and parochialism. Dave On Mar 16, 6:10 pm, Bill Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > dwebman <[email protected]> writes: > > Any idea where ledger is picking up this original path? > > Sure. ~/.ledger-cache Until it's fixed, you may have to remove it when > you change files. > > Bill > -- > Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ > Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 > USAhttp://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541
