[GNC] Trying to download Gnucash data Files

[Jose A. Lorido III]

Thanks David, I'll follow your advice and let you know how it turns out!!


Kind Regards
Jose

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 5:20 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> 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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