[Kmymoney-devel] Re: KMyMoney is creating backups of my files

[aga]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:35:57 +0100
Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> on Saturday 29 January 2011 22:46:38 David Houlden wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I just set up KDE 4.5.5 and KMyMoney svn version on a new PC. Every
> > time I save my .kmy file I get a backup file automatically created
> > so I now have these files in my home directory.
> > mymoney.kmy
> > mymoney.kmy.1~
> > mymoney.kmy.2~
> > mymoney.kmy.3~
> > mymoney.kmy.4~
> > I feel sure I've seen this before but it doesn't happen on another
> > machine I have. I must be missing something obvious but I've looked
> > through all the settings and can't see how to turn this behaviour
> > off. Help please!
> 
> That's a new feature only available in trunk. You can't turn it off -
> except by modifying the source. The number of backup files is limited
> to 10.
> 
> 

Oh dear, not more backup files?  I already have too many.  I
understand the issue, but am not too happy with it being compulsory.  If
the issue is with changing the UI, couldn't it be disabled via the rc
file, please?  Or, their location can be specified, like /dev/null or
some such.

Allan