Too many .log and .xac files

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>:

> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:39 -0600, David Berg wrote:
>> I would like to have them around, but don't want to see them.  Has there
>> been discussion of storing them in a hidden directory?  Would this be an
>>   easy change to make in the source?
>
> I can't think of any other software that hides its backup files in this
> way, and think it would be confusing to do so.
>
> I also think the default value of retaining 30 days worth of backups is
> way overkill, and leads to more user irritation than safety.  As such,
> I've been meaning to propose lowering it to 1 for future releases.
> Objection?

I'd rather it be 7-10.  I think 1 is too short.

-derek

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