[GNC] Gnucash logs

[Adrien Monteleone]

The .log files are more like historical data snapshots than application info. Having them all in a subfolder would be nice with less clutter. I wouldn’t say they belong in a system temp folder. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any app put its lock files in a separate location from the file being used. Though, most prepend them with a “.” so they are not visible during normal use. There is some room for improvement on both counts though.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 26, 2020 w18d117, at 9:38 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> Hopefully the developers will take note that this is not only
> longstanding but fairly frequently requested -- and the present behavior
> is a source of consternation to a significant proportion of new GC
> users. The introduction of GC 4.x would be a great time to make this change.
> 
> Easy for me to say of course, but I don't think it would be that hard to
> add a setting in the GUI and have whatever writes the logs and lock file
> use that setting.
> 
> 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.