Wm, If you draw a diagram from the information in the wiki page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations where the meta data and report data is stored becomes fairly obvious and is fairly simple.
There was considerable discussion in the forums at the time the changes were being made from 2.6 to 3.0. Not all users had the same report startegy you were thinking of. Some users used the same report configurations with different books. Going with the OS's recommendations has the advantage that your backup strategy may be more general than that for a single app. Note it is the report configuration which is saved in the configuration locations not the report instance itself - that is in the book/main data file and/or reconstructed from the data there when it is displayed. It is fairly simple to store a copy of user and configuarion locations contents with each data file if you really require the user and config data to be backed up along with the data file. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
