[GNC] Save or Backup file

2022-10-31 Thread Alan Fields via gnucash-user
Is there any way to backup file before I exit software.  I am in the process of moving away from Quicken and your software is very impressive. Thank you, Alan Fields acfsecu...@aol.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

[GNC] Crash while importing QFX

2022-10-31 Thread Shifan W via gnucash-user
Hello, This morning I tried importing QFX and getting this error. This is the first time this happened: Some debug logs: admin@MacBook-Pro ~ % /Applications/Gnucash-4.12/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug Application Path /Applications/Gnucash-4.12/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash (

Re: [GNC] Save or Backup file

2022-10-31 Thread David Cousens
Alan GnuCash creates a backup file at the start of each session and creates a log file during the session. This is principally to allow recovery from program crashes which may corrupt the data file. The state of the file may be recovered by opening the backup created before a crash and then reload

[GNC] XML or database?

2022-10-31 Thread R Losey
This question may have been asked before, but I'm relatively new to this mailing list. Is there any advantage to switching to the database format? Would it use less space? My ".gnucash" file is about 1.5M currently, and opening it takes mere seconds. Long ago in my Quicken days, I would generally

Re: [GNC] XML or database?

2022-10-31 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Mon, October 31, 2022 9:14 am, R Losey wrote: > This question may have been asked before, but I'm relatively new to this > mailing list. > > Is there any advantage to switching to the database format? Would it use > less space? My ".gnucash" file is about 1.5M currently, and opening it > ta

Re: [GNC] Paying invoices from the edit invoice screen

2022-10-31 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm guessing you mean the Transfer Account pane in the bottom right of the Payment dialog. I seem to recall that it defaults to no selection, then to whatever was last used, per customer or vendor. As to why it ever was used for Liabilities in your case, I have no idea. But intentionally chang

Re: [GNC] XML or database?

2022-10-31 Thread R Losey
That helps - thanks! I assume that if I attempt to quit GnuCash with unsaved data, it will remind me to save... but the current indications of unsaved data files have been sufficient to remind me to save the data. If you have data going back 15 years, I'm just getting started with 6 years (heh).

Re: [GNC] XML or database?

2022-10-31 Thread David H
An advantage of using the xml backend and leaving autosave turned off is that you can just quit out of Gnucash if you inadvertently screw something up as it's not saved after each txn as per sql :-) Cheers David H. On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 01:15, R Losey wrote: > That helps - thanks! > > I assume