Data files

[Derek Atkins]

"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> writes:

> On 31 March 2008 at 9:39, Derek Atkins said:
>
>> Ron,
>> 
>> It's perfectly safe to move the data to the new location;  it's just
>> that GnuCash will complain that it cannot find it.  But you can click
>> through that error box and then move on the File -> Open.  Also, by
>> moving it (instead of copying it) you reduce the change of errors
>> where you make some edits to one file and some to another.
>
> Is there a good reason *not* to do it the obvious way:
> - open GnuCash as usual, if it's not already running
> - use "Save As" to store the data in the new location (and cause GnuCash 
> to regard this as the "current" file, and remember it)
> - er, that's it (apart from optionally deleting it from the original 
> location).

Well, you lose your history this way..  You lose your backups
and log files..  and you still have the "double datafile" problem.

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-derek

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