Your data

Where your file lives, how to back it up, what leaves your computer.

This section is the plain-English accounting of where your financial data lives, how to protect it, and exactly what — if anything — PennyBolt sends out over the network. The short answer to that last question is “update checks and opt-in crash reports, nothing else.” The long answer is on What leaves your computer .

If you’re planning to move to a new computer, start at Moving to a new computer .

Where your file lives is the reference for the two sentences above: the exact path PennyBolt uses on macOS, Windows, and Linux, in case you ever need to find the file directly. Backups explains the .pbbackup file itself: how to make one, where to store it, how often, and how to confirm it actually works by testing a restore before you need it. Moving to a new computer leans on that same backup file: it is the same make-a-backup, copy-it-over, restore-it mechanism, walked through as five steps between two machines. What leaves your computer closes out the section with the full accounting behind the short answer already given above: exactly what PennyBolt does and does not send over the network, and what it does and does not encrypt.

• Where your file lives

  The exact path on every operating system.

• Backups

  Make a backup, test a restore, and protect your financial history.

• Moving to a new computer

  Five steps. Under five minutes.

• What leaves your computer

  An exact accounting of what PennyBolt sends, and what it doesn't.