[GNC] gnu cash creates a ton of files.

[Stephen]

Look at the Gnucash Tutorial and Concepts Guide. Shows Gnucash file 
extensions and what each is designed to do.
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html

On 1/28/2023 4:25 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> 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)
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