Hello Neal.

Thanks for using Sage City.

You can uncheck this folder, I think it'll just be backing up because it sees that as a usual data folder (where normally data would sit).

Unchecking it won't cause any harm though. The one thing you'll want to do is go to Settings>Company Preferences>Reports and tick use data path for reports as it'll mean any custom reports get stored there (if you have any currently, we can relocate them).

Hope this helped.

Lee (Sage UKI)

Hi Lee,

Thank you for your reply.

I don't have a 'data paths' option in Settings>Company Preferences>Reporting. I believe this is because I am a single user Sag50 installation?

What I am confused about is that all layouts seem to be stored in each company's folder on D:, but reports are stored in the C: folder I mention in my post (i.e. c:\programdata\sage\accounts\2021\company.000)

For example,

In Customers, 'Overdue Invoice' report is stored in the c:\programdata\sage\accounts\2021\company.000\reports\...

But layouts such as 'A4 Statement' are stored in my company layouts folder on the D drive.

So this leads me to think I should include this C folder in the backup as it seems to be where reports are stored.

Is it because I have 2 companies and they both use the C folder for their reports?

It's not problem backing it up. I just would like to know so that if I ever have to restore, then I know what is stored where.

Thanks

Hello.

Layouts do store in the company folder, you are right. Reports can be but the option does only appear when multiple people connect.

Do you use/create custom reports? If you don't I wouldn't worry about it as those files/folders are nothing really. If you do, every month or so, you could take a reports only backup which I would opt for over backing up multiple files you don't need.

Any other questions, give me a shout

Lee (Sage Q&A Live Solution Specialist)