saving a gnucash data file

[Derek Atkins]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

>>> I know how to do it, the question is whether save backup is a feature
>>> 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.
>>
>> File -> Save As [xml]
>
> But then you have to remember to reopen the original db file requiring
> entering user name and password again.  Not a massive problem I know
> but a bit of a pain.  In fact if I remember (it seems a long time ago)
> this thread started with someone using Save As to make a backup and
> others said this is a bad idea.

Now that we have SQL I can certainly see the argument for a 
File -> Export -> GnuCash XML  that behaves like File -> Save As [XML]
but doesn't make it the 'current' file or save it into the History.

> Colin

-derek

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