"Retain log files:" user preference not working

[Reuben Cummings]

I made a script to autodelete all log files and they reappear every
time, even when I set retain to 0. I don't remember exactly when I
switched but my oldest backup is from 3/17/11.

On 8/20/12, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> reubano <reubano at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> No matter what value I set "Retain log files" to, gnucash never
>> automatically
>> deletes old log files.
>>
>> Gnucash 2.4.11 binary w/ sqlite backend
>> Mac OSX 10.7.4
>>
>> P.S. I've noticed this behavior since at least 2.4.8.
>
> When did you switch from XML to the SQLite backend?
>
> It's _possible_ that the log-file deletion code might not get run with
> SQL backends.  I haven't looked at the code to verify.
>
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>
> -derek
>
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