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

[David Houlden]

On Saturday 29 January 2011 Thomas Baumgart 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.

OK, no problem, although it would be nice to have it configurable at some 
point. I currently take backups with a cron job so I can always modify that 
script to delete these new backups for now.

Regards,
Dave.