[Kmymoney-devel] Feature Request

[Cristian Oneț]

2012/1/19 Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de>:
> Hi,
>
> on Wednesday 18 January 2012 23:07:19 Ian Neal wrote:
>
>> I definitely make use of the backup facility (setting the number of
>> backups to >0), though it would be good to be able to specify an
>> alternative location for it to store the backup files.
>
> Thanks for the feedback so far. Looking at the above comment, I want to
> stress, that there might be a bit of confusion what we are talking about here.
>
> There is for one the automatic backup procedure to keep the last n versions of
> the file in the same directory as in
>
> thb.kmy
> thb.kmy.1~
> thb.kmy.2~
> ...
>
> where the number of those files can be controlled via the settings dialog.
> That is *not* what I am talking about. I am happy to have that feature.
>
>
> The other feature - and that is what I want to get rid of - is what you can
> access via 'File/Backup...'. It opens a dialog and allows to mount an external
> device such as a floppy (or nowadays USB stick) and to physically copy the
> current file to that device.
>
> I think the mounting operation is what causes the trouble on MS Windows.
>

Hi,

I haven't managed to reproduce the user's findings yet so I would not
remove this feature just because of that (I'm speaking here as a user
of the feature - which I think performs the same task that Allan does
manually but in an easier way).

Regards,
Cristian

>
> p.s. I intended to ask on the user list in a second round as well. Maybe even
> on the forum but wanted to get the developers opinion first.
>
>
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>
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>
> Thomas Baumgart
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