On 12/31/18 9:29 AM, Stan Brown wrote: > Under "Uddating advice", I believe Finbar Mahon wrote: > >> On reading it I see that what is missing is how to find where the >> gnucash file is saved. The problem is that where it is was specified >> by yourself when you first saved your accounts file. Just as it is if >> you save a word processor document for example, so the wiki assumes >> you remember where that is. > True enough, and a couple of people have suggested how to find a file. > > But word processors typically DON'T put dozens of log files in the same > directory or folder as the actual document. Because Gnucash does, when > someone naively saves a Gnucash data file to her desktop, it's almost > immediately cluttered with log files. The same was true when I naively saved > my first GnuCash file to the same folder as my financial spreadsheets -- > relatively quickly they were buried under a blizzard of log files. (Granted, > I'm exaggerating a bit, for effect.) > > I understand the usefulness of the log files, but why aren't they written to > the temp folder? Or better yet, why aren't they written to a user-specified > location, with the temp folder as default? > This sounds like an idea that needs to be filed as an enhancement request. I'd suggest an alternative might be to create two sub-folders in the folder where the data file is stored:
1. ./GnuCash-Backups 2. ./GnuCash-Logs That would keep them from cluttering up the main folder but be readily at hand and easily identifiable. Of course, I've used *Nix style paths but the idea should port to Windows (I don't know Mac). --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM [email protected] [email protected] 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8
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