-------- Original Message -------- From: Michael or Penny Novack <[email protected]> Sent: Tue Apr 28 22:11:04 GMT+05:30 2020 To: "D." <[email protected]> Cc: Gnucash Users <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs
On 4/27/2020 10:50 PM, D. wrote: > Michael, > > I take your point; we users will often create duplicated file names for different content. I believe that many users only keep one set of books. I don't have any statistics on general GnuCash usage to be able to say whether more users have one file or many. > > However, given that operating systems prevent identical file names to > coexist in a folder, it would seem to me that there is a simple remedy > to overlapping log files: per book log folder settings. In your case, > business1financials/ledger.gnucash would use business1financials/logs > and organization1financials/ledger.gnucash would use > organization1financials/logs > > Problem solved. > Yes, but that is solving the problem by a different method (not writing the log files to a dedicated directory for all log files but writing them into a subdirectory of the directory containing the data file). Would be easy for gnucash when starting to check for the existence of this subdirectory, if not there, create it. Much as it checks for the existence of a lock file. Had THAT been suggested you would not have seen an objection from me. But about "almost all users have only one set of books" I have to laugh. If all those rare situations never existed, designing/writing software would be a snap. Software solution have to ALWAYS work. A commonly quoted rule of rule of thumb, 80% of the design/write time will be handling just 20% of the cases, but in my experience, 50% of the time will be handling those that are 1% or less. Michael Hi, I like the idea of putting logs in a 'log' subdirectory of the data file folder and also putting the backups in a 'backup' subdirectory of the data file folder. GnuCash would create these on startup if needed. If I could get general approval in principle, I could even start work on it. Regards, Chris Good _______________________________________________ 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.
