Re: Updating data from a temporary cloned drive to my normal computer.

Larry,

If you have not set up your back ups go to File, Preferences, Back Up 
tab and set the number of back ups you want retained and how often you 
wants an auto save.

   Ed Melia, Sacramento, CA

On 1/14/2012 6:33 PM, Cole, Alan wrote:
> Yep, that's all you need.
> The file with the -YYYY-MM-DD appended is the automatic backup.
> Easier than cloning your entire system would be to copy the
> moneydance.mdfile to a different directory as a backup.  Or as I do, I
> copy the
> moneydance.md-YYYY-MM-DD to a backup directory that Moneydance doesn't know
> about so that it doesn't automatically delete them as it creates new
> backups.  Then if I ever find that I need to go back to a earlier file, I
> just move the appropriate backup file to the current file location and
> remove the -YYYY-MM-DD from the end of the file name.
>
> Al
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Larry Alkoff<[email protected]>wrote:
>
>    
>> I am using Moneydance 2010 (791) for Linux
>> and have just finished several years of account reconciliations for my
>> main accounts.
>>
>> Since I was afraid that an error on my part would end up in disaster,
>> I cloned my normal drive with Clonezilla and worked on the cloned drive.
>>
>> I'm the only user of MD in my household.
>>
>> Now I want to move the data to my normal working drive.
>>
>> At the moment I have 2 files with the same date on my older
>> /home/me/mdance directory:
>>   moneydance.md-2011-12-23
>>   moneydance.md
>>
>> I have 2 newer files with the same date on my cloned computer:
>>   moneydance.md-2012-01-14
>>   moneydance.md
>>
>> To ensure that all my data is transferred to my normal computer would it
>> be enough to simply copy the newer (2012) moneydance.md file over to my
>> normal working computer?
>>
>> Is there anything else I need to do?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> Larry Alkoff
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