back up files?

[Colin Law]

On 22 March 2013 13:29, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On 21 March 2013 13:15, Arbol One <arbolone at hotmail.ca> wrote:
>>> I just upgraded to the newest version of GNUCASH in my Win7 machine. GNUCASH leaves a lot of backup files on my desktop, is there a way to change the location of the backup files? thanks
>>
>> The backup and log files are saved in the same directory as the data
>> file, which presumably you have saved on the desktop.  If you save the
>> data file in a different folder then it and the backup files will go
>> there.  You can use File > Save As to do this.  Once you are sure you
>> have got the new one saved ok then you can remove the one on the
>> desktop.  Probably it is a good idea to backup the data file before
>> doing this just in case.  You should be backing it up regularly anyway
>> of course.
>
> It's safer and easier to create the new directory and drag the account file along with all of the backups and logs into it. Start Gnucash (which will complain about being unable to find the file in its old location, and use File>Open to open it in its new home.

Yes, that is good advice.

Colin