Re: My GNUCash Backup Location

2017-12-02 Thread Ronal B Morse
They're not really backups.  They're more like safety copies created by GnuCash in preparation for updating the database. Back in the olde days the probability of a system r/w error when writing out a big file was a lot higher than it is now, and even today it is far from zero. Do what David

Re: My GNUCash Backup Location

2017-12-02 Thread David Reiser
Doesn’t matter. Right click on your current DB file and select Duplicate from the pop-up. All my gnucash-generated backups and log files are in the same directory as the data file itself. -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com > On Dec 2, 2017, at 9:38 AM, John Donnee

Re: My GNUCash Backup Location

2017-12-02 Thread John Donnee
Hi David, in what directory on my iMac is the backups kept? ThanksJohn John Donnee 910.622.8111 317 Mount Eden Place Cary, NC 27518 > On Dec 1, 2017, at 10:16 PM, David Reiser wrote: > > Well, do you know what version you have? 2.6.1 was released in January 2014, > and