File flood or self-contained .gnucash file
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 18 01:39:36 EDT 2013
Alois--
The behavior is intended; take a look at: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F
You may also be interested in http://gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html
HTH,
David
On Apr 17, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Alois Mahdal <Alois.Mahdal.1-ndmail at zxcvb.cz> 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.
>
> --
> Alois Mahdal
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