hidden files?

[Derek Atkins]

Nikos Charonitakis <frolix68 at yahoo.gr> writes:

> hi all
> 
> i want to ask where config or other setting are recorded in gnucash
> is it a hidden file? where it is stored?
> (when i delete a file gnucash insist to load it)

Data is stored in ~/.gnome/GnuCash and ~/.gnucash

> how can i run gnucash "clean" as firt time after installing in a new pc?

gnucash --nofile

> what files have to remove?

none

> also whats's the use of so many log files.
> they keep filling my home dir...

They are stored in the same directory where your data file is.
Put your data file in a subdirectory and the backup/log files
will move there.  You can also change how long logs/backups
are kept.  The default is 30 days, but you can tune that as you
see fit.

> it may be more user friendly to store them in a hidden catalogue.

But that would require the user to somehow tell gnucash where to store
backups, and it also could cause a problem if you happen to have two
datafiles of the same name.  It's just much cleaner to put backups
and logfiles into the same directory as the data file.

        a) you know it exists
        b) you know it is writable
        c) you know the data file name is unique (in that directory)

If the log files bother you, tune the backup days down to something
you consider more reasonable.

> nikos

-derek

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