[GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

[Adrien Monteleone]

True. I forgot about that one. I use sqlite and indeed it is always inactive.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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