[GNC] Gnucash logs

Maf. King maf at chilwell.net
Sun Apr 26 10:46:55 EDT 2020


On Sunday, 26 April 2020 15:38:41 BST Stan Brown wrote:

> 
> And I would urge strongly that the setting should default to the normal
> location for temp files, not to the same location as the data file.
> Again, I'm thinking of the new user who is surprised to find dozens or
> even hundreds of extra files in the working directory after a long
> session when getting acquainted with GC.  The normal location is %TEMP%
> in Windows. I don't know what it is in other operating systems, but I'm
> sure our developers do.
> 

Hi Stan,

just an observation.

/tmp on linux is usually world readable... not a great idea for a default 
place to write potentially sensitive financial info.

0.02
Maf.






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