David T., Preferences >> General >> Path Head for Transaction Association Files is probably the setting you're looking for :-)
Cheers David H. On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 16:12, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > If the setting were per book and user-configurable, then a user could > choose to set each data file to use a different set of folders, by > changing the file default from "logs" to "logs-file1" > > Does the Attachments functionality provide a blueprint for how this > could work for backups and logs? It seems to me that there is a setting > somewhere that allows the user to point to a particular folder for > external file association (although my attempts at locating that setting > have failed). > > But your point about the logs and backups having different filenames is > apt as well. > > David T. > > On 4/29/2020 8:55 AM, Chris Good wrote: > > > From: David H <hell...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 12:49 PM > > To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> > > Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs > > > > > > > > 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 <mailto: > goodchri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net <mailto: > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> > > > Sent: Tue Apr 28 22:11:04 GMT+05:30 2020 > > To: "D." <sunfis...@yahoo.com <mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com> > > > Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Hi David H, > > > > > > > > The backup filenames and log filenames already include the book name and > I see no reason to change that. > > > > People could still have multiple books in the same directory, although I > suggest best practice is to put each book’s data file in a separate > directory. > > > > > > > > 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. 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