Backup Files

[Fred Bone]

On 5 February 2013 at 9:49, Les said:

> I have my general preference set to retain 5 days worth of log files.
> However, I have over 2 months residing in my folder.  Can someone explain
> why?  Is it because GC makes a distinction between "log" files and other
> files?

It treats log and backup files the same. However, it only deletes those 
that go with the current file you are working on. These can be recognised 
because they start with the same filename, and end with .<datetime>.log 
and .<datetime>.gnucash respectively.

For example, my current file is called "accounts-3.gnucash". The oldest 
log file is "accounts-3.gnucash.20130107151708.log" and the oldest backup 
is "accounts-3.gnucash.20130107162315.gnucash".

So if you open a backup and work with that (without changing its name) it 
won't delete the logs and backups of the original. Or if you have old 
files lying around (for example from test runs: I have several) then 
their logs and backups will be kept, until you next open the old base 
file.

If this fails to explain what you're seeing, post some sample filenames 
and perhaps something will reveal itself.