I can't think of any reason why editing the tarsnap.db in that manner wouldn't work. It should really be implemented in the GUI, but since it currently isn't, I think your options are manually editing the database, or removing the job and making a new one.
Both options are very user-unfriendly, though. As for the gui in general, there have been 1960 commits since v1.0.2. And the tarsnap 1.0.41 release on 2025-March-21 added a few features which are described in the release notes as "This option is in tended for the GUI and is not needed for command-line usage". Disclaimer: I'm the person making those commits (both in the gui and the command-line app), but I'm not at liberty to discuss unreleased software. The above info comes from the public github repository and the tarsnap website. Cheers, - Graham On 2025-06-18, [email protected] wrote: > I use Tarsnap GUI. I have deleted a folder on my computer and I would like to > delete the path from tarsnap backup command that gets triggered every time a > backup is attempted as it always (rightly) logs an error. > Since I can’t unselect that deleted path in the UI, can I go ahead and edit > the tarsnap.db and remove that path from the “jobs” table’s “urls” column’s > only row? > Or am I supposed to do something else to achieve this? > > (Just curious: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap-gui/releases seems to have > had its last release almost 7 years ago. Is that because it doesn't need any > fixes as of now, or has the GUI project been abandoned?)
