[GNC] Location of GnuCash data files

[Adrien Monteleone]

It should probably be filed in Bugzilla, but I think it might already be there.

I seem to recall asking this question myself some months ago after a thread about user confusion over these files. I unfortunately can’t find the thread and don’t remember the exact final point, but I do remember one of the devs stated a good reason for why the present situation is what it is, darned if I can remember it though. Maybe one of them will chime in.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Dec 31, 2018, at 12:09 PM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Been done.  
> https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1470507-configuration-option-for-backup-location
> 
> 
> 
>  On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 23:18, Stephen M. Butler<kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:   On 12/31/18 9:29 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
>> Under "Uddating advice", I believe Finbar Mahon wrote:
>> 
>>> On reading it I see that what is missing is how to find where the
>>> gnucash file is saved.  The problem is that where it is was specified
>>> by yourself when you first saved your accounts file.  Just as it is if
>>> you save a word processor document for example, so the wiki assumes
>>> you remember where that is. 
>> True enough, and a couple of people have suggested how to find a file.
>> 
>> But word processors typically DON'T put dozens of log files in the same directory or folder as the actual document. Because Gnucash does, when someone naively saves a Gnucash data file to her desktop, it's almost immediately cluttered with log files. The same was true when I naively saved my first GnuCash file to the same folder as my financial spreadsheets -- relatively quickly they were buried under a blizzard of log files. (Granted, I'm exaggerating a bit, for effect.)
>> 
>> I understand the usefulness of the log files, but why aren't they written to the temp folder? Or better yet, why aren't they written to a user-specified location, with the temp folder as default?
>> 
> This sounds like an idea that needs to be filed as an enhancement
> request.  I'd suggest an alternative might be to create two sub-folders
> in the folder where the data file is stored:
> 
> 1. ./GnuCash-Backups
> 2. ./GnuCash-Logs
> 
> That would keep them from cluttering up the main folder but be readily
> at hand and easily identifiable.  Of course, I've used *Nix style paths
> but the idea should port to Windows (I don't know Mac).
> 
> --Steve
> 
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