Custom Reports and Backup

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:34:21 Fred Bone wrote:

>
> However, the "custom report" definitions are not stored under "My
> Documents" (which is where one is "supposed" to store one's visible
> files, as opposed to application control data) - they go in a sibling
> directory. In my case that's "c:\documents and settings\fred\.gnucash"
> and there doesn't seem to be any choice in the matter. I suspect this may
> be because Gnucash needs to find the definitions at startup, perhaps
> before it has even looked for the data files.
>
> Yes it is possible to store the data file there, 

<SNIP>

On Linux, at least, I have been advised specifically to _NOT_ store my data 
file in ~/.gnucash 
 - data loss may result.

If you want to back up the reports etc., would a symlink work, so that the 
reports/configs also appear as a sub-directory in %DATADIR%?

Maf.