[GNC] Updating advice

[Finbar Mahon]

Sorry, I'm afraid you are dealing with a neophyte here.

I read the wiki, and I looked for the data files but didn't find 
anything that looked like 'gnucash.20140131150812.gnucash.'

I recall having seen on here various discussions on backing up - is 
there a place where I could find a set of questions/answers on doing a 
backup?

TIA for any advice.

Barry

On 30/12/2018 11:50, Finbar Mahon wrote:
> Sorry, I meant doing the first option (as I  should have been:-[) 
> before updating to 3.3.
>
> Thanks for the information. I'll have a look at the wiki.
>
> B
>
> On 30/12/2018 10:57, Colin Law wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 09:49, Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to do a backup of the current installation as of 31.12.2018 and
>>> install the latest version (3.3?) from 1.1.2019. First is this a
>>> worthwhile action and is there any particular process I should 
>>> follow? I
>>> have looked around the documentation but I didn't find a "how to"
>> Do you mean backing up your accounts data?  If so then that is
>> something everyone should already be doing regularly.  A computer or
>> disk may go up in smoke (literally or metaphoricallly) at any time,
>> taking all your account history with it if you are not doing regular
>> backups.  See this for information on what to backup.
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
>>
>> If you mean you want to backup the software itself so you can easily
>> revert to the old version should you need to then that is not normally
>> something one would do, though I believe Windows has a mechanism for
>> keeping a snapshot of the current system so you can revert if you want
>> to.  You can always uninstall the latest and install an earlier one if
>> you want to, though it is not guaranteed that accounts data which have
>> been used with 3.3 will be usable with an earlier version, so you
>> might have to go back to an earlier backup of your accounts
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> I am using 2.6.19 on Windows 10.
>>>
>>> TIA, Barry
>>>
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