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.
> 
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> Alois Mahdal
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