Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[Derek Atkins]

"Dustin Henning" <The00Dustin at gmx.net> writes:

> I haven't messed with reports, but if keeping the files relevant to an
> account in the same place were part of a solution, I would think the
> compression option could then bundle them together.  Of course that would
> mean each backup contained a copy of the extra files, reducing the benefit
> of the compression, but it would allow users to take one file and have
> everything.  Perhaps default reports could be stored with GnuCash instead of
> in user data while custom ones could be added to the profile where they are
> stored now or imported to a specific chart of accounts (gnucash file), where
> they would be stored with the data file (as a single copy without
> compression and/or in each compressed copy)?

Alas, no, that wouldn't work.  Compression is specifically part of the
XML backend.  There is no compression for "SQLite", and it doesn't help
solve a MySQL or PG Backend datafile.

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-derek

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