Too many .log and .xac files

[Ariel]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Josh Sled wrote:

> 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?

Yes. 1 is way too short, 7 at a minimum.

Instead of doing that, create a directory called <filename>.backups, and 
drop everything in there.

Not a hidden directory, but still just 1 directory plus the actual file is 
much better - then you don't have reduce the number of backups.

 	-Ariel