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Settings

The settings screens in Actual provide you with a number of options for managing the look and feel of your budget along with some more system specific settings.

Formatting​

The formatting options allow you to select the following;

  • Your preferred date format
  • Your preferred number format

Encryption​

End to End Encryption is not actually available in Actual version 20.10.25, this is due to the way the Sync system was working, we are working on re-enabling this feature and will update this documentation once that is available.

Export​

Actual is local first, with this, it is possible to export your data from Actual, when you do this you will be given a zip file to download which will contain the SQLite database along with your budget.

Advanced Settings​

Budget ID​

Your Budget ID is a unique identifier that identifies the specific budget file that you have open, as you can have many budgets per install of Actual this allows you to identify which budget the data relates to.

Reset Sync​

Resetting Sync is quite complicated, this is covered in detail here

Global​

While these settings are available and by default checked, in the Open Source version of actual they have no function.