No Backup Files and Saving Problem
Maf. King
maf at chilwell.net
Wed Nov 11 10:03:56 EST 2009
Hi Tom,
Which version of GC?
Maf.
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 01:53:53 Tom Galvani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have had a bit of trouble with the backup files and the save function
> in GnuCash. I am setting up my business and want to back up all my
> business files - and all my GnuCash files - each night. Currently, I
> have my main hard drive partitioned into C and D drives, D being the
> drive where all my business files are stored, and C being the typical C
> drive. For the nightly backup, I've got an automated process simply
> copying the entire contents of the D drive to an external drive.
>
> The .gnucash directory is in my user directory on the C drive
> (C:\Documents and Settings\user\.gnucash\). The main GnuCash file is on
> the D drive (D:\Admin\Financial\Bookkeeping\). I was hoping to have all
> the GnuCash files backup along with the D drive, but I can't find any
> .xac, .log, .lnk, .lck files for GnuCash on the D drive, much less
> anywhere on my computer. I thought that the backup files were saved
> automatically every few minutes in the same directory as the main file.
>
> Also, (maybe related?) the "save" button in GnuCash is constantly greyed
> out. I can "save as," but cannot "save."
>
> I don't think it is an access problem, because my user account
> privileges allow for full read/write access of the C drive. No other
> user, other than my user and the administrator account, has access to
> the C drive.
>
> Can anybody help? I just want to make sure that a) GnuCash is regularly
> backing itself up when I am working in it and b) I can find those backup
> files so that I can copy them with the automated backup each night.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Galvani
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