On 1/13/2025 12:51 PM, Steve Butler wrote:
Make liberal use of FILE: SAVE AS.
The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base
name then adding date and timestamp. There are stored in the same place as
your file. It also stores log files there in a similar manner with a .log
extension.
Those are SESSION backups. If you had a drive disaster, your data would
be lost.
"Session backups" are backups IN BETWEEN data backups. For example, even
when using "incremental" that usually is a daily basis. You use session
backups to recover from problems (recover from a system crash) WHILE YOU
WERE WORKING. Those of use who are entering transactions into gnucash
only for a short while each day are unlikely to need them. But picture a
business user where the "bookkeeper" might be entering transactions for
several hours.
Personally, I'd do a save every 15 minutes or so << if I were entering a
couple hours worth of transactions.
Michael D Novack
PS -- "bookkeeper" in quotes, because not necessarily meaning a
different human. If you, the business owner, are entering the data, then
at the moment you are "bookkeeper" and not "owner".
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