[GNC] Gnucash logs

[D.]

I agree that the setting sounds broken in Rich's case, although it's generally worked for me. 

However, the preference setting and storage location of log files is comparing apples and oranges, regardless of whether the setting works or not. Many people want to have their primary data file in one folder (if you take the uservoice data as any indication), and their log files placed elsewhere, available in an emergency, but tucked away out of sight. Sort of like a toilet. 

It's too bad the RFE had never been taken up. It doesn't seem like it would be that insurmountable to achieve. 

David T.


-------- Original Message --------
From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
Sent: Mon Apr 27 21:49:00 GMT+05:30 2020
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs

On 4/27/2020 11:56 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
>
>> doesn't adjusting Edit->Preferences->General:Retain log/backup files 
>> bring
>> some relief?
>
> Frank,
>
> Not here. long ago I set log/backup retention for 1 day but they 
> accumulate
> until I manually remove them, perhaps once a month. Pehaps the 
> reference is
> for a Venusian day? :-) (Version 3.10 is installed, but it was the 
> same in
> prior versions.) 

If true THAT should be be a bug report.

For those who are only opening books at unpredictably infrequent 
intervals, try this. Put your gnucash data file into a directory with 
nothing else. Then that's where the logs will go (and the lock file when 
the data file is open). Now it will be easy to remove the clutter, just 
delete everything in the directory but the data file (when the data file 
is closed, the lock file won't be there)

The suggestion "put the logs somewhere else" might be ignoring the 
possibility of multiple gnucash data files with the same name (which 
they can have if in different directories)

Michael  Novack


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