Question on gnuCash file

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Kesterson <robertk at robertk.com> writes:

> I hope this isn't a really dumb question, but wouldn't this be a better
> sequence?
>
>     create tempfile (on same device and dir as datafile)
>     write data to tempfile
>     rename datafile to olddatafile
>     rename tempfile to datafile
>     delete olddatafile

Okay, you caught me.  I skipped the "backup" step.

-derek
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