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 .

Pages in this section

• Where your file lives — the exact path on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Backups — making a backup, scheduling automatic backups, and restoring from one.
• Moving to a new computer — the one-file move, five steps.
• What leaves your computer — our exact accounting of network traffic, storage, and what we do and don’t 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.