making a copy of my gnucash "stuff" on a flash drive

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 01 May 2010 12:20:04 -0500 Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> Folks,
> 
>   What needs to be copied to a flash drive so that I may take a copy of all my 
> gnucash data files with me when I visit my son (who is an accountant) next week?
> 
> I copied the .gnucash directory but that was not enough... what else do I need? 
> Can the copy be made while gnucash is running?

The .gnucash directory just contains your settings and stuff.  The data
file also needs to be copied.  There is only one data file, but there
will be backup copies and transaction logs, which you don't need to
copy.

You *probably* don't want to make the copy while gnucash is running,
unless you are sure you saved the data.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jay

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