saving a gnucash data file

[John Spira]

Speaking as a (rather grumpy) Windows Vista user I would support Colin's 
view that an 'on demand' save capability be retained - and I really like 
the auto backup of the previously saved file too. It means having to 
clean out the folder where all the backups accumulate from time to time, 
but it's worth it when one's OS is Windows Vista!
Why do I stick with Vista and not switch to Linux? Because of all the 
Windows-only apps I don't want to part with.
Using the 2.3.3 release of Gnucash I had a crash after hours of data 
entry which corrupted my data file. I searched in vain for a backup of 
an earlier save until I realised there was only one file, now useless.  
Then I called for help on this list and was steered on to the 2.2.9 
release.  Serve me right for using an unstable release...

While writing I would like to congratulate the developers on an 
excellent app and thank everyone for the generous spirit that puts Open 
Source programs in the public domain.

John Spira

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> that would be useful in GC.  Would the average GC user be able to run
> mysqldump?  Don't forget he would have to use the appropriate options
> to set the username and password.  I still think that the ability to
> save an xml backup file would be useful.
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