Jose, The gnucash data files are xml text files (except if you are using a database backend). You just open the media they are on with File Explorer and copy the required file to the desired location on your laptop hard drive or SSD as appropriate. If you are unable to recover the main data file "<yourfilename>.gnucash" you can also recover from the backup files and you have recovered backup files with the format "yourfilename>.gnucash.<datetimestamp>.gnucash" where <datetimestamp> has the format "yyyymmddhhmmss". If you rename the most recent of these to "<yourfilename>.gnucash" ( make sure to keep a backup copy of it) it will then work as the main data file. You will unfortunately lose any transactions entered between the time of the backup file and when your hard disk crashed. If there are any log files which have a more recent date time stamp than the backup file you use, these can be imported into GnuCash to recover the data but it will not necessarily be complete unless you have all the log files created.
if you use both a laptop and a desktop you can either use a cloud server like Dropbox, Google Drive, One DRive etc. which is accessible from both machines and is automatically synced. Be careful about having the program running on both machines at the same time. If they are networked on a LAN, you can also use a program like Unison to keep the copies on different machines in sync. If you do use Unison be careful not to sync any cloud server synced folders like Dropbox etc folders which are synced externally over the internet. Unison can be used to sync files remotely but you need a remotely accessible URL. I would suggest keeping all your GnuCash data files in their own folder/directory with a separate sub folder /directory in turn for each set of books you maintain. That way you can backup and/or sync the complete folder and not worry about backing up individual files. ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
