GNUCash file size grew nearly 14 times

[David Carlson]

I am not a developer.

I do not know about whether Google Drive or insync are factors in your
problem or not but an easy way to eliminate GnuCash is to first check the
Edit > Preferences > General > Files > Compress files box to be sure that
it is still checked.  If it is, then use GZip, 7Zip or your favorite
compression utility to attempt to open your data file.  If it is correctly
compressed it will report two file sizes, actual and compressed.  If that
gives abnormal results it is more likely not GnuCash that is causing your
problem.

I suspect that Google Drive may also be copying the backup files, which
will quickly become a major problem.


David C

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Michael Convey <smconvey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/1/17, the size of my gnucash file grew nearly 14 times in size, as
> follows:
>
>    - Name.20170129210422.gnucash.20170401152428.gnucash (20,971 KB)
>    - Name.20170129210422.gnucash.20170401145113.gnucash (1,516 KB)
>
> I'm not sure why, but about a week earlier, I set up insynch for Google
> Drive and put all my gnucash files in Google Drive so I can access them
> from any PC.
>
> I'd like to reduce the file size so that I don't use up so much cellular
> data when syncing.
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