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 reloading the logfile for the session in which the crash occurred. It is sometimes necessary to edit the log file in a text editor to remove the last operation if that led to the crash.
It is recommended to keep each datafile in its own directory/folder and the internal backaups and log files will be created in the directory. You can set a preference for the number of logfiles and backup files to retain. It is also recommended practice to backup this directory to at least one or moreof another computer, a network storage device, a cloud storage, a USB stick, CD-DVD fairly frequently. David Cousens On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 13:51 -0400, Alan Fields via gnucash-user wrote: > 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 > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
