Backup files not being purged

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:16:07AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <
> stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > >I also see no deletion of backup files (OS X 10.5.6, Gnucash Aqua
> > >installed via MacPorts).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > I've noticed the large buildup too. Except hadn't thought about it as I
> > don't have a time limit set (entry of transactions sporadic so could
> > require a long period between).
> >
> > However -- I do have a suggestion for making the deletion easier.
> >
> > You have your books in a directory dedicated to that purpose. The
> > backups get placed there too. When you decide too many, just copy the
> > books and the last X pairs of backups (whatever you decide enough for
> > safety) into another directory, delete the first directory and all it's
> > contents, reallocate it, and move what you copied back. It's what I do
> > if I have many tens of pairs to delete.
> 
> 
> It'll work, but it seems too complicated. I haven't used a Mac in 15 years,
> but presumably the Mac has a nice filesystem browser (it's a Mac, after
> all). It shouldn't be hard to display the directory holding the Gnucash
> files, logs, and backups in descending chronological order. It also
> shouldn't be hard to select files from N days ago through the earliest and
> delete them and you're done. You can even do this easily with Windows, the
> World's Most Annoying Operating System :-)


and for those who want to come out of the church of mac and worship
in your friendly neighborhood shell there is always

find /path/to/gnucash/files -atime +60 -exec echo rm -f '{}' \;

USE WITH CAUTION UNTIL YOU KNOW HOW FIND WORKS

to remove everything over 60 days old

once you know that it does what you want, remove the echo and it will
actually work. 

note that here be dragons. you have been warned.

;-P

A
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