Extremely long .xac file name

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting David Jenkins <d-w-jenkins at bcs.org.uk>:

>
> I have tried searching for an answer on this, but failed - although I may be
> using the wrong search string!
>
> Anyway - my question is about the length of my .xac filenames. My latest one
> is
>
> translog.20050428101306.log.20051227095646.xac.20060901215500.xac.20061025130531.xac.20061109162644.xac.20070423190739.xac.20071029090835.xac.20080413212035.xac
>
> All the previous names are in the same style.
>
> Is this normal? Or does my system have a problem?  Or does the user have a
> user-ability problem?! It's rather annoying that I can't display the whole
> names in the directory on a 23" monitor! :o

This is not normal, per se..  What this means is that you had a file
named "translog", but then you did something "strange" on April 28, 2005.
Then on December 12, 2005 you opened a backup file.  Then you opened
another backup file on September 1, 2006, October 25, 2006, etc.

This is not something GnuCash would do on its own; it's something you
had to have done manually by using File -> Open and selecting a backup
file instead of your original data file...  GnuCash then started working
off the backup file..  and so on.

> In all other respects the app is working properly.
>
> FYI: I'm running GnuCash ver. 2.2.1 under Ubuntu 7.10.
>
> Many thanks.
> David

Right now your best bet is to just rename the "current" data file
to something reasonable (translog2?) and then File -> Open that file..

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-derek

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