GnuCash log files still appear

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 14 15:59:12 EST 2012


On 14 February 2012 16:59, Carson Chittom <carson at wistly.net> wrote:
> I'm using GnuCash 2.4.8 on Cygwin.  Since I keep my files under version
> control, I've turned off the GnuCash log files[1], but *.log files
> continue to be generated when I save (i.e., I deleted all the old ones,
> saved again, and there's a new log file).  Am I missing an option, or
> something?
>
>
> [1] Edit>Preferences>General>Retain log files: Never

I think it still generates them but will delete them each time you
restart gnucash (or something along those lines).  The best thing is
to set your vcs up to ignore the logfiles.  For git put a .gitignore
file in the folder containing *.log.  svn has a similar system.

Colin



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