Thanks David, I'll follow your advice and let you know how it turns out!!
Kind Regards Jose On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 5:20 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
