Lorrie, That looks OK apart from not creating the backup file which should have been created when you opened the file to to make the change , saved it and then closed the file. (I noticed in an earlier post you mentioned adding an .xml file extension. There is no need to do that as the .gnucash is the correct extension.)
There should have been a file finances.gnucash.<date-timestamp>.gnucash with the same <date-timestamp> roughly as the log file. It may differ by a few seconds. <date-timestamp> has the format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS". In most cases the datestamp on the log file and the backup file only differ by 1-2 s on my system with the backup file created first and then the log file. There is a preference in the Edit->Preferences General tab where you can set the file retention period for the backups and log files. I usually leave it at the default of 30 days as I have terrabytes of free space on my system but it is generally a good idea to set this so you have a few backup and logfiles on your system so you can recover maximum data if you ever have a file corruption issue. This is only likely if GnuCash or the OS crashes while writing to the file. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
