[GNC] Move working files

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 10, 2024, at 09:45, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't done a lot of customization with my GnuCash system.
> 
> My data file - MyData.gnucash is in the same directory as what I call the
> "working" files -- the MyData.gnucash.<timestamp>.gnucash and the
> MyData.gnucash.<timestamp>.log files.
> 
> Is there some way that these working files can be created in a separate
> directory?
> 
> I am backing up the GnuCash data directory, but in reality, all I really
> need to backup is my GnuCash file - all of these working files are just
> taking up space on the backup media.
> 
> Note: I have GnuCash set to trim the files after a certain number of days,
> but the files are (naturally) not deleted from the backup material, so it
> has files back to when I started the backup.

Extra backups is never a bad thing. ;-)

That said, you could tune your backup program to exclude the backup and log files or you could switch to the SQLite3 backend that modifies the data file in place and so doesn’t make backup files (which are really the previous XML file renamed with the timestamp). In the latter case you’d still have the log files. There’s at present there’s no way to tell GnuCash to move the previous XML file to another directory nor to write the log files to another directory.

Regards,
John Ralls