[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

[Colin Law]

If it were an sqlite file then I don't think the Save button would
ever be enabled.

Colin
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 16:39, Adrien Monteleone
<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> If you try to open the file with a text editor (I used Atom, because TextEdit complained about something wrong with UTF-8 in the file) you will see this at the beginning:
>
> SQLite format 3
>
> If it is an sqlite format.
>
> If it is the compressed XML, you’ll see gibberish/non-printable character.
>
> If you uncompress the file, and try to read it with a text editor, you’ll of course see XML.
>
> I’m not sure if there is any other way to tell. (short of using a hex editor, etc.)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Dec 4, 2018, at 1:55 AM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Lorrie,
> >
> > Are you sure you are using an XML file for your GC data?  IIRC, using the
> > SQLite format stops the creation of the timestamp backup files.
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure how to check what format the file is in, but if you do a
> > file-> Save As and look at the options in that dialog box it *may* shed some
> > light.  Cancel if you don't actually want to rename the file, of course.
> >
> > 0.02
> > Maf.
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:13:38 GMT David Cousens wrote:
> >> Lorrie,
> >>
> >> That looks OK apart from not creating the backup file which should have been
> >> created when you opened the file to to make the change , saved it and then
> >> closed the file. (I noticed in an earlier post you mentioned adding an .xml
> >> file extension. There is no need to do that as the .gnucash is the correct
> >> extension.)
> >>
> >> There should have been a file
> >>
> >> finances.gnucash.<date-timestamp>.gnucash
> >>
> >> with the same <date-timestamp> roughly as the log file. It may differ by a
> >> few seconds.
> >> <date-timestamp> has the format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS".
> >>
> >> In most cases the datestamp on the log file and the backup file only differ
> >> by 1-2 s on my system with the backup file created first and then the log
> >> file.
> >>
> >> There is a preference in the Edit->Preferences General tab where you can set
> >> the file retention period for the backups and log files.  I usually leave
> >> it at the default of 30 days as I have terrabytes of free space on my
> >> system but it is generally a good idea to set this so you have a few backup
> >> and logfiles on your system so you can recover maximum data if you ever
> >> have a file corruption issue. This is only likely if GnuCash or the OS
> >> crashes while writing to the file.
> >>
> >> David Cousens
> >>
> >>
> >>
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