Your GnuCash data file can be placed anywhere suitable in your home directory in Linux.i.e. in /home/<user> where <user> is your user name on the Linux system. It is a good practice to create a separate subdirectory in which to place GnuCash data file you have (e.g personal finances, business finances etc). GnuCash creates backup and log files for each datafile each time the file is opened in the application in the same directory as the data file so this keeps the files for different sets of books separate and easier to manage. The date-timestamped backup and log files allow reconstruction of the file up to the corrupting transaction in the event of a corruption of the data file. You will need to save to that location when you create the data file (or move the file to that location if it already is created somewhere else, e.g in the Flatpak directory structure).
I keep my data files in a Dropbox subdirectory of /home/<user> with a sub directory "GnuCash_Data_Files" with sub directories of that for each of my data files as I have a need to be able to access my accounts at times from multiple computers and sometimes multiple physical locations over the internet. This directory is synced to a Dropbox server. When I do backups of all my data, I backup all the contents of the "GnuCash _Data_Files" directory to my offsite backup device/location which makes backups simple. ----- 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.
