GNUCash file size grew nearly 14 times

[David Carlson]

After re-reading your original post, I see that you are already using a
backup as your original data file so you need to untangle that issue first.

David C

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:58 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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