Re: gnucash

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 00:27 -0800, Camuzat Sebastien wrote: 
Hi everyone !
I've got trouble with gnucash.
>From time to time, it doesn't want to access to the
latest file, saying that it has been issued by a more
recent version (of gnucash). That's odd !
I installed the 1.8.10 available in repositories, and
tried to upgrade it to the newer version 1.8.12.deb
unsuccessfully.

And, globally speaking, Ive got difficulties to
understand why it's generating so many (backup?)
files, for one single account.
And I cannot open manually a file, from a directory.

Does anyone use gnucash under ubuntu and face the same
kind of trouble ?

Seb

First of all just want to let you know that I am no expert. I am using 1.8.10 and haven't tried to update. There may be a possibility that when you tried to upgrade the information is somehow showing up as you having the newer version, when in reality you did not get the upgrade installed (maybe someone else can give you a technical explanation). I too get what seems to be a lot of "backup" files when in reality it is only one file that I need to keep and that is the .qif file that I set up as the back up. This backs up every time. The other files is a back up file that is generated for each time you use gnucash and have new transactions. There is also a log file that is generated. I delete these files with no problem. These files have a series of numbers after the file with a .xac or .log designation. I believe .xac is the transaction file and .log is the log file. The only file that I keep is the .qif file and it always opens with the current data. I just learned from experimentation. There is also a gnucash mailing list that has been helpful. Wish I could be of more help, but I just migrated from Windows and Microsoft Money a couple of weeks ago so have much to learn. I wondered at first if gnucash would suit my needs, but it is now functioning well for me or rather possibly I for it. :-)

Gregg

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