[GNC] Windows reboots, gnucash restart after auto save

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

On 2024-09-04 13:58, David Carlson wrote to David G. Pickett:
> If you bothered to investigate what the .gcm file does, if keeps separate
> records for every different data file that the user has opened since the
> beginning of time.  That is why it is called user data and there is a great
> deal of discussion on the GnuCash website about why it exists and how to
> back up and copy the important parts over to a new computer for your
> favorite operating system when desired.

Maybe I misinterpreted you, but it sounds like you're saying there's one
.gcm file and it contains records for all the data files a user has opened.

I don't know how it is in Macs or Linux, but in Windows that's not
correct. In Windows, there's a folder (directory)
%APPDATA%\gnucash\books, which contains one separate _file_ for each
data file ever opened. Purging the records for data files you no longer
use, if you wish to do so, is as simple is as simple as deleting the
.gcm file with the same name (before the . period) as the no-longer-used
data file. Moving or copying a data file to a new computer, also move or
copy the appropriate .gcm file, and when you open the data file on the
new computer all the layout will be the same as on the old computer.

Or maybe you were thinking of the reports file. That is
%APPDATA%\gnucash\saved-reports-2.8 (version numbers vary), and that
single file does contain information about all reports, similar to what
you said about a .gcm file. It's a per-user file, and as far as I know
there's no way within GC to share reports with a different user on the
same computer, and there's no way to have a given report appear only
when you're working with one or more particular books.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com