[GNC] new to Gnucash - help with general information

Fred Bone Fred at mandfb.me.uk
Sun Sep 11 15:07:09 EDT 2022


On 11 September 2022 at 9:59, Michael or Penny Novack said:

> 
> >    5.  Geoff is also correct here that gnucash saves backup so you don't
> >    lose data, but backuping up to another media is always a good idea.
> >
> And asking this question "how do I back-up my gnucash data?" implies a
> more serious misunderstanding about using your computer. It isn't just
> just gnucash data that needs to be backed up but ALL your user data. And
> if you have adopted a plan to back up ALL your user data, gnucash data
> would be included in that, so no need to have a back-up plan specific to
> gnucash.

You do realise that these days many people do all their email via 
webmail, and all their word processing, spreadsheets and so on on Google 
Docs or suchlike "in the cloud", and may find that Gnucash is the only 
application that keeps their data locally?




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