[GNC] gnu cash creates a ton of files.

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 22:04, <jmybal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get a lot of files in my documents folder that are like this:
>
> "X"Books.gnucash."Y"   where "X" is the name of my database and "Y" seems
> to
> be a date time stamp.  They never go away.  How to I control these so that
> they are automatically cleaned up by gnucash?
>
> Thanks
>

They are backups that are regularly taken. You control whether you want the
backups, the frequency of the period, and how long they are kept from. Go
to the Edit menu, select Preferences, then click on general.

Dave (newbie to GnuCash)