The .log files are more like historical data snapshots than application info. Having them all in a subfolder would be nice with less clutter. I wouldn’t say they belong in a system temp folder. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any app put its lock files in a separate location from the file being used. Though, most prepend them with a “.” so they are not visible during normal use. There is some room for improvement on both counts though.
Regards, Adrien > On Apr 26, 2020 w18d117, at 9:38 AM, Stan Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hopefully the developers will take note that this is not only > longstanding but fairly frequently requested -- and the present behavior > is a source of consternation to a significant proportion of new GC > users. The introduction of GC 4.x would be a great time to make this change. > > Easy for me to say of course, but I don't think it would be that hard to > add a setting in the GUI and have whatever writes the logs and lock file > use that setting. > > And I would urge strongly that the setting should default to the normal > location for temp files, not to the same location as the data file. > Again, I'm thinking of the new user who is surprised to find dozens or > even hundreds of extra files in the working directory after a long > session when getting acquainted with GC. The normal location is %TEMP% > in Windows. I don't know what it is in other operating systems, but I'm > sure our developers do. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
