File flood or self-contained .gnucash file

[Carsten Rinke]

Hi,

regarding the number of files:

Gnucash deletes the files after they have become older then a certain 
number of days that you can configure in the user preferences. That also 
means, that it does not consider the number of files created.

Some more info you can find here:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F

Kind regards,
Carsten


On 04/18/2013 01:58 AM, Alois Mahdal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Dropbox to share my .gnucash file across multiple
> hosts.  It's called one.gnucash.
>
> Now I'd like to understand these things:
>
> *   GnuCash seems to act quite strange regarding auto-save.Bu
>      this I mean that each time it auto-saves, it actually
>      creates backup of the old file, but does not seem to delete
>      old backups (i.e. keep N older backups)
>
>      Well, I appreciate it wants to keep integrity, but the
>      files pile up; now I have about 50 files long update line.
>      All named like one.gnucash.201301021234.gnucash
>
>      Is this intended?  I'd normally expect to keep one or two
>      copies, why 50+?  I could not find anything in settings
>      apart from changing interval only.
>
> *   With each of these files, additional .log file is saved.
>
>      Do I need to keep these files as well?
>
> *   In case I wanted to do backup other way, say using rsync,
>      which files are recommended "to take on a desert isle"?
>
> I'm using GnuCash 2.4.10, Debian Wheezy (both of the
> machines) and for storage I chose gzipped XML.
>
> Thanks,
> aL.
>