Cleaning up backups

[David Hampton]

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On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 23:00, dann wrote:
> Perhaps this is convered somewhere in the documentation, but I cannot fin=
d
> it.  Everytime I save and close gnucash a new file is created in my
> account directory listing the account name with the date and time appende=
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> to it.  There are two files, a .log and .xac.  As time goes on, these
> files have been getting larger and taking up a lot of space. =20

You can delete any of these automatically created .log and .xac files
without affecting gnucash.

> Is there a way to set gnucash to delete some of these older files?  Are
> they necessary?  I have found that deleting older files does not seem to
> affect the data in my account. =20

The next version of gnucash will have an option to delete these files
when they are older than 'n' days, where 'n' is a number of your
choosing.

David


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