[GNC] Move working files

[R Losey]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 1:04 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > 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.
>

Thanks, John.

I'll work with the backup program. Looks like I just need to exclude
MyData.gnucash.20*.gnucash and MyData.gnucash.20*.log

It would be simpler if I could configure GnuCash to put these working files
in a subdirectory, and then just exclude that "working" directory.
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Richard Losey
rlosey at gmail.com
Micah 6:8