Backing up

[Colin Law]

On 27 February 2011 13:31,  <cageda at bbox.fr> wrote:
> But then will GnuCash find the acounts file where it is?

As I said, after moving them run GnuCash (it will complain that it
cannot find the original file as it is no longer where it was) and
select File > Open and browse to the accounts file in the new place.
Thereafter it will open it automatically as it defaults to opening the
last used file.

Colin

>
> Alain
>
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:33:59 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>On 26 February 2011 11:28,  <cageda at bbox.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to configure GnuCash so that the *.xac files get stored
>>> to the "Documents" folder. That way the files would be automatically
>>> backed up to my external HD when I do a general backup of my
>>> documents.
>>
>>The xac files are (as far as I know) saved in the same location as the
>>accounts file.  So probably you want to move your accounts file to
>>Documents.  You could do File > Save As to do this from within GnuCash
>>and then all new xac files will be stored wherever you Saved As the
>>accounts file, or you could just move the whole folder where your
>>accounts file and xac files are to a location under Documents, then
>>start GnuCash and use File > Open to open the accounts file from its
>>new location.  Then both your actual accounts file and the xac files
>>will be backed up.
>>
>>Colin
>