Too many .log and .xac files

[Jeff Carneal]

A few points on this topic, as someone who within the last couple of  
days discovered the xac files and had them save his bacon.  Or at  
least a few hours of work.

1)  Hiding the files would have made it less likely that I would find  
the backups and investigate them via google

2)  Defaulting to 1 backup would have killed my chances of recovery.

3)  Whoever was originally responsible for xac backup code can  
contact me for a sizable quantity of their favorite beer

Thanks,
Jeff

On Feb 14, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Josh Sled wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:11 -0600, David Berg wrote:
>> Regardless of whether it's a good design decision, I'd like to change
>> the program for my own install to use a hidden directory.  I'm not
>> familiar with the gnucash source at all though.  Would this be an  
>> easy
>> change?  Where would I start?
>
> Relatively easy.
>
> Start at src/backend/file/gnc-backend-file.c.  In particular, look for
> the strings "retain_days" and ".xac".  That will lead you to
> gnc_file_be_backup_file and gnc_int_link_or_make_backup.  Check the
> callers, and you'll find your way to gnc_file_be_write_to_file.   
> Between
> those functions should lie the solution.
>
> (Followups should probably go to gnucash-devel...)
>
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