gnucash-user Digest, Vol 129, Issue 8

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 06 December 2013 12:31:58 RoseW wrote:
>    On 12/06/13 12:00 PM, John Donnee asked & Derek Atkins replied
> 
> 1. Is there a ?Backup? command? I could not find one except in the
> 
> > manual it says that GNUCash makes a backup when any transactions
> > have
> > been entered.
> 
> No.  You just copy your data file, just like you would backup a Word
> or Excel document.
> 
> > So if I am not going to post any transactions but want to make a
> > backup, do I use ?Save As? since I do not see any ?Backup? command?
> 
> No, you just need to copy the data file.
> 
> If you use Save As then the next time GnuCash opens it will use your
> *backup* file, which is probably not what you want!!
> 
> 
>    I'm a new  Gnucash user and that has been for this calendar year.
>    Rather simplistic question re: 'copy your data file'
>    Is this a manual operation?
>    As In :Go into the Account Folder in Windows Explorer, Copy the
>    Account.gnucash file to another folder location (labelled Copy or
>    Backup)?
Exactly.

Geert