On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 1:04 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > > > On Aug 10, 2024, at 09:45, R Losey <rlo...@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. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
