"Simple" Backups & Restores.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know what an "xea" file is. Is that the extension at the end
> of the file or part of the name? When I traverse over to the directory
> where I store my Gnucash files, all I see is files with names like
> "MyAccounts.gnucash" and "MyAccounts.gnucash.2014xxxxx.log". For
> information purposes, I'm using the program on OS X 10.9. Perhaps the
> files you refer to are a result of running on other operating systems,
> or a result of some functionality of Gnucash that I do not use. Why
> not just copy them over, try things out, and see if there are any
> problems?
>> Is there any need to copy the "xea" files that come up?   I copied all the
>> files from the "gnucash storage" folder but there are a score of files with
>> "xea" in the filename located in my program file folder as well.....   ??

The "XEA" files are the XML Example Account files that gnucash uses for
the templates in the new-file and new-hierarchy functions.  These files
are part of the GnuCash distribution and get installed when/where
gnucash gets installed.  You should not have to manually copy them.

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-derek

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