Re: [GNC] GnuCash Backup

2022-02-22 Thread brad
There's a tool called rsnapshot on linux that is pretty easy to use.   (rsnapshot.org) On 2/22/22 18:01, Chris Good wrote: Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:49:42 -0700 From: Mario Nigrovic To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] (no subject) Message-ID: Content-Type:

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Backup

2022-02-22 Thread Chris Good
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:49:42 -0700 From: Mario Nigrovic To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] (no subject) Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was very careful to make regular

Re: [GNC] Linus Pauling's friends

2022-02-22 Thread David Carlson
That shows my age. Linus Pauling was imprinted into my brain in the 1960's. On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 4:22 PM Geoff wrote: > Good one David, you have made my day! I am nominating you for the Answer > of the Month Award. > > ;--)) > > Geoff > = > P.S. Is it true that Linus Torvalds was one of

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/22/2022 1:31 PM, Steve Butler wrote: Please plan a compressive backup strategy for your entire system. Include email, Libre Office documents, other misc files and not just GnuCash. That way it won't matter where files are "hidden" as you will have a complete backup strategy that isn't

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread davidcousens49
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:49 -0700, Mario Nigrovic wrote: > Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was > very careful to make regular backups of my data, and so, when my disk > inevitably crashed, I was not too worried. However, I was mortified to > discover that,

Re: [GNC] Linus Pauling's friends

2022-02-22 Thread Geoff
Good one David, you have made my day! I am nominating you for the Answer of the Month Award. ;--)) Geoff = P.S. Is it true that Linus Torvalds was one of Linus Pauling's friends too? On 23/02/2022 6:50 am, David Carlson wrote: It is not a secret location known only to Linus Pauling and

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 2/22/22 11:24, Thomas Boerner wrote: Mario, under Linux Gnucash stores its settings using dconf. You can view them with the dconf-editor). Inside dconf you will find your gnucash settings, including the file history, under org/gnucash/GnuCash (Older versions of GNC used org.gnucash). In

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread David Carlson
Mario, The GnuCash developers are not keeping any secrets about where your data is stored. If you read your help manual and refer to the very detailed FAQ on the website you will find out that GnuCash stores some "user" type information in a location separate from your data. Your custom report

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Thomas Boerner
Mario, under Linux Gnucash stores its settings using dconf. You can view them with the dconf-editor). Inside dconf you will find your gnucash settings, including the file history, under org/gnucash/GnuCash (Older versions of GNC used org.gnucash). In the filesystem it's in

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Mario, The wiki describes all locations used by GnuCash for each OS. You can use that info to fine tune your backups. Regards, Adrien On 2/22/22 11:49 AM, Mario Nigrovic wrote: Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was very careful to make regular backups of my

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Steve Butler
Please plan a compressive backup strategy for your entire system. Include email, Libre Office documents, other misc files and not just GnuCash. That way it won't matter where files are "hidden" as you will have a complete backup strategy that isn't specific to any particular application. On

[GNC] (no subject)

2022-02-22 Thread Mario Nigrovic
Many years ago, I had used gnucash, and was pretty happy with it. I was very careful to make regular backups of my data, and so, when my disk inevitably crashed, I was not too worried. However, I was mortified to discover that, although all my transaction data had been saved, all my custom reports

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax << slightly off topic (but mail related) >>

2022-02-22 Thread Sebastian Naumann
Hi everyone, if you need info / help with Sales Tax, I would be more than happy to help. This is actually what my company does. Even though we mainly deal with Online Retailers that generate Nexus thru the Inventory in the amazon warehouses across the country, we can certainly help answering