Fwd: separating data files from backup files

suk wah bernstein sukwahbernstein at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 16:14:14 EDT 2011


will be mindful. i really thought i had been focusing on gnucash specific
questions and after i had looked up manual. i never intend to use this place
as the way to learn to use computer.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: suk wah bernstein <sukwahbernstein at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: separating data files from backup files
To: gnucash-user mailing list <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>


sorry, i thought i emailed to the entire list, not anyone in particular.


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:15 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:57 AM, suk wah bernstein wrote:
>
> > after entering a transaction should i hit 'save' or 'enter'? am i wrong
> to guess that hitting 'save' will create yet another log/back up file? i
> have been hitting 'save' and i see this long, long list of back up files
> growing in the folder Suk Wah that has other files in it.
> >
> > i am just a regular, simple user who wants to keep financial affairs in a
> clean, orderly way. i am not computer literate as i have noticed many of you
> are in the emails. can someone offer a step by step procedure for me to
> separate the data and qif files from the back up and log files, including
> naming, re-naming, moving. i guess what happened was i renamed the folders,
> dragged the folders in a way that confused gnucash. probably the datafiles
> are somewhere. i just don't know how to find them. hard to believe that just
> by renaming a folder and moving some folders to a new one would wipe out
> data.
> >
> > it was relatively painless to reimport and redid one month of data. now
> that i have almost three months worth of data and recon efforts and a new
> account (health savings account) set up i really don't want to take a wrong
> turn and have to reimport again.
> >
> > hey, by the way, this is a great user community. i have never been in
> one. i have been skeptical of the idea. my trusted cousin turns me onto
> gnucash. i am so grateful to him and to all of you. you are so great.
> >
> > thanks so much.
>
> Suk Wah,
>
> You sent that email to me directly, not to the list. Please remember to use
> "Reply All" when replying. (I've copied my reply to the list so that
> everyone else can see it.)
>
> Gnucash has documentation, both a Manual and a Tutorial, which is included
> in the Gnucash bundle and accessible from the Help menu (the docs will
> display in your browser). There is also extensive documentation in the
> Gnucash Wiki, including a large FAQ, at http://www.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ.
> Please read carefully and thoroughly all of the documentation before you ask
> any more questions.
>
> Neither the documentation nor this group, however, is the place to learn
> how to use your computer. You will find tons of information in Apple's help
> and on the web; there are also many books available on using a Mac, and you
> can probably find courses at your local Adult Education program or Community
> College.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>


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