Too many .log and .xac files

Spel spelya at yahoo.ca
Wed Feb 14 16:31:48 EST 2007



Derek Atkins a écrit :
> 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
>
>   
Agree.  If the user is away, or does not use GnuCash, for a few days, he
would be left with no backup.


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