-.gnucash files

[AlainCageda]

>________________________________
> De : Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>
>À : AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr> 
>Cc : "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
>Envoyé le : Lundi 17 septembre 2012 10h44
>Objet : Re: -.gnucash files
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>On Mon 17 September 12 09:26:49 AlainCageda wrote:
>> Thanks Maf, I'll do that.
>> 
>> But:
>> 
>> - How do I set in which folder GnuCash puts the autobackup file? By default
>> it used to be in "USERS>MY NAME. Now as you see it's in DOCUMENTS. This
>> suits me fine because it makes it easier to back up to a HD but, if I don't
>> understand how this works I fear to do something wrong in future. - Why is
>> the autobackup of today named 20120915xxxxxx rather than 20120917xxxxx?
>> 
>> Alain
>> 
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>Hi Alain.
>
>The backups and log files go in the same folder as the main data file. No 
>choice about that, AFAIK.  
>
>If you run several data files, I would suggest you create a folder for each 
>set of accounts, eg:
>
>c:\users\alain\documents\gnucash\Personal and
>c:\users\alain\documents\gnucash\Business (or "Wife" or whatever, if relevant)
>
>as to today's timestamp, I'm not sure.  I've just done a trial save of one of 
>my files, and the autobackup was created with the timestamp of 20120917093506 
>as expected.  Maybe it is a windows/linux difference?
>
>Or do you mean the file in the Save confirmation box from your previous mail?  
>That isn't the backup, that is your current data file, it will get a backup 
>with a 4th timestamp of today.
>
>Cheers,
>Maf.
>
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>I have probably been mistaking "proper" file with backup files all along. How do I know one from the others?
>The file I'm looking for is probably lost somewhere and I don't know where to look. 
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>I don't know why some files now go to "Documents" wheras they all (apparently) used to stay in "Users>My name". The only thing I did which apparently made a difference was Copying one file from "Users>My name" to Documents. 
>Alain  
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