[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 1/13/2025 12:51 PM, Steve Butler wrote:
> Make liberal use of FILE:  SAVE AS.
>
> The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base
> name then adding date and timestamp.  There are stored in the same place as
> your file.  It also stores log files there in a similar manner with a .log
> extension.
>
Those are SESSION backups. If you had a drive disaster, your data would 
be lost.

"Session backups" are backups IN BETWEEN data backups. For example, even 
when using "incremental" that usually is a daily basis. You use session 
backups to recover from problems (recover from a system crash) WHILE YOU 
WERE WORKING. Those of use who are entering transactions into gnucash 
only for a short while each day are unlikely to need them. But picture a 
business user where the "bookkeeper" might be entering transactions for 
several hours.

Personally, I'd do a save every 15 minutes or so << if I were entering a 
couple hours worth of transactions.

Michael D Novack

PS -- "bookkeeper" in quotes, because not necessarily meaning a 
different human. If you, the business owner, are entering the data, then 
at the moment you are "bookkeeper" and not "owner".