Custom Reports and Backup

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Colin Scott wrote:

>In the Windows world, the file containing custom reports is saved in the
>windows "Documents and Settings" tree.  However, when it comes to backing
>up up my gnucash data, I would really like to have the reports
>definitions saved with my data, rather then buried away in some obscure
>location that no sane person voluntarily uses for anything!
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>Is there some way of controlling where this file is placed?
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>Colin
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Not sure exactly what you are asking. Your GnuCash data is presumably 
also in the Documents and Settings\youruserid TREE unless you really 
went out of your way to save it elsewhere. Just not necessarily in the 
same directory (file folder) in that tree. Each user's Documents and 
Settings is where all their data goes (private data) unless they specify 
that it go in the user share directory Documents and Settings\All Users. 
Backup strategies vary. In my own case I back up the entire Documents 
and Settings directory for each user on the system instead of expecting 
the data from each application to be backed up separately (more work, 
and besides, the same data types might be from several different 
applications -- for example, a .doc file might have been created by MS 
Word, MS Office, Open Office, Abiword, etc.).

If you want your GnuCash books (and the incremental save/log) in the 
same directory as where the report definitions get put, why don't you 
just make it so? You can choose where (what directory) your books and 
their associated save/logs get put. You don't have to use the default 
directory for that. I don't.

Michael

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