deleting .log files gnucash financial

[Colin Law]

With list it is necessary to use Reply All (or similar, depending on
your mailer) in order that your post goes back to the list instead of
just to the previous poster (me). I am forwarding this to the list.
See below for comments.

On 8 September 2017 at 19:54, Carl Hofinga <chofinga at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for this reply. I understand that I can delete the ".log" files.
> But what about "data" files going back to year 2014, like
> CHHACCTNGDATA.GNUCASH.20140228172933.gnucash? Both files are not being
> deleted even though I have set the preference for 30, then 20, & now 5 days
> to delete these files. I have yet to find an easy way to delete these files
> unless I can delete  the data files along with the ".log" files, instead of
> one by one (since these files are mixed together). I am using Windows 7 Pro
> & GNUCASH 2.6.17.

If you sort by date in your file manager then you will be able to
easily select all the old log and data backup files. It is ok to
delete both provided you have are keeping backups of the file
elsewhere (preferably offsite if the accounts are important to you).
As for why it is not automatically deleting them I don't know, but I
think others have seen that occasionally too.

Colin