Chris, How would you see this working with my 2 data files that I have in the same gnucash folder ??? Would the subdirectory(ies) include the name of the data file to clearly identify them or would all log/backup files be lumped in together in a single subdirectory ? When I save my gnucash file under another name using save as would it create the required subdirectories for the new data file if they are separate subdirectories ?
My own situation is that I've set the log files to be deleted after 30 days which seems to work on Mac Catalina. My data files are in a dedicated folder in my Documents folder and I must confess that I have NEVER had a need to go looking for backup files or log files since starting with Gnucash in 2010. Cheers David Halverson. On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:48, Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> > Sent: Tue Apr 28 22:11:04 GMT+05:30 2020 > To: "D." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > 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 > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.