[GNC] Trying to download Gnucash data Files

[David Cousens]

Jose,

The gnucash data files are xml text files (except if you are using a
database backend).  You just open the media they are on with File Explorer
and copy the required file to the desired location on your laptop hard drive
or SSD as appropriate. If you are unable to recover the main data file
"<yourfilename>.gnucash"  you can also recover from  the backup files and
you have recovered backup files with the format
"yourfilename>.gnucash.<datetimestamp>.gnucash" where <datetimestamp> has
the format "yyyymmddhhmmss".  If you rename the most recent of these to
"<yourfilename>.gnucash" ( make sure to keep a backup copy of it) it will
then work as the main data file. You will unfortunately lose any
transactions entered between the time of the backup file and when your hard
disk crashed. If there are any log files which have a more recent date time
stamp than the backup file you use, these can be imported into GnuCash to
recover the data but it will not necessarily be complete unless you have all
the log files created.

if you use both a laptop and a desktop you can either use a cloud server
like Dropbox, Google Drive, One DRive etc. which is accessible from both
machines and is automatically synced. Be careful about having the program
running on both machines at the same time. If they are networked on a LAN,
you can also use a program like Unison to keep the copies on different
machines in sync. If you do use Unison be careful not to sync any cloud
server synced folders like Dropbox etc folders which are synced externally
over the internet. Unison can be used to sync files remotely but you need a
remotely accessible URL.

I would suggest keeping all your GnuCash data files in their own
folder/directory with a separate sub folder /directory in turn for each set
of books you maintain. That way you can backup and/or sync the complete
folder and not worry about backing up individual files.



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David Cousens
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