Tr : Backing up prob

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Sun, September 16, 2012 6:32 am, AlainCageda wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The hereunder msg was rejected as spam. 
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> I'm trying again.
>
> Regards.
> Alain
>
>
> ----- Mail transféré -----
>>De : AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr>
>>À : "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>Envoyé le : Dimanche 16 septembre 2012 12h05
>>Objet : Backing up prob
>>
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>
>>I have a
> couple or questions regarding backing up:
>>
>>
>>1. In "Users
>> My name" where *.gnucash files are stored, I never find
> such a file dated of my latest modification (neither the Windows mention
> "modified on" or in the name of the *.gnucash file which seems to remain
> the same for ages even though I work on Gnucash most everyday). For
> instance, these past days I was working with a file
> marked "Modified 08/26" and it worked. It was actually the
> latest version, including entries made everyday from 08/26 thru
> today.
>>I'm
> surprised the latest version is not in a file marked "modified
> 09/15".

Are you using XML or SQL storage?  If you're using SQL then you wont
generate backup files, although the "modified time" should change every
time you use GnuCash.  Perhaps you accidentally loaded a different file or
saved it into a different directory?

>>
>>2. Intending to back
> up my work, I copy, repeat copy not cut, the latest   .*gnucash
>    and    *.log files   to    "My
> documents"   , so that when I backup   My documents to
> an external HD, Gnucash gets backed up in the process.
>>But after I've
> done this, when I try to open Gnucash, I get a msg that the file
> *.gnucash" (re: the one that was used last time) cannot be
> found. 
>>In previous
> instances it worked if I reopened the file I had backed up in My
> documents. But this time the proper file can't be found anywhere.
> When I reopen the latest modified file (08/26), I'm stuck with a
> version actually dating from back then.

If this is the case then you are removing the file instead of copying it. 
Or somehow the file is being deleted.  unfortunately I cannot say how you
might be doing that.

It sounds like you did a File -> Save As (or a File -> Open) to a file in
a different location than you thought.

>>
>>Any help
> very much appreciated.
>>Thanks a lot
> in advance.
>>Alain  

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