[GNC] Gnucash logs

[David H]

Chris,

How would you see this working with my 2 data files that I have in the same
gnucash folder ???  Would the subdirectory(ies) include the name of the
data file to clearly identify them or would all log/backup files be lumped
in together in a single subdirectory ?  When I save my gnucash file under
another name using save as would it create the required subdirectories for
the new data file if they are separate subdirectories ?

My own situation is that I've set the log files to be deleted after 30 days
which seems to work on Mac Catalina.  My data files are in a dedicated
folder in my Documents folder and I must confess that I have NEVER had a
need to go looking for backup files or log files since starting with
Gnucash in 2010.

Cheers David Halverson.

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:48, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
> Sent: Tue Apr 28 22:11:04 GMT+05:30 2020
> To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs
>
> On 4/27/2020 10:50 PM, D. wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I take your point; we users will often create duplicated file names for
> different content. I believe that many users only keep one set of books. I
> don't have any statistics on general GnuCash usage to be able to say
> whether
> more users have one file or many.
> >
> > However, given that operating systems prevent identical file names to
> > coexist in a folder, it would seem to me that there is a simple remedy
> > to overlapping log files: per book log folder settings. In your case,
> > business1financials/ledger.gnucash would use business1financials/logs
> > and organization1financials/ledger.gnucash would use
> > organization1financials/logs
> >
> > Problem solved.
> >
> Yes, but that is solving the problem by a different method (not writing the
> log files to a dedicated directory for all log files but writing them into
> a
> subdirectory of the directory containing the data file).
> Would be easy for gnucash when starting to check for the existence of this
> subdirectory, if not there, create it. Much as it checks for the existence
> of a lock file.
>
> Had THAT been suggested you would not have seen an objection from me.
> But about "almost all users have only one set of books" I have to laugh.
> If all those rare situations never existed, designing/writing software
> would
> be a snap. Software solution have to ALWAYS work. A commonly quoted rule of
> rule of thumb, 80% of the design/write time will be handling just 20% of
> the
> cases, but in my experience, 50% of the time will be handling those that
> are
> 1% or less.
>
> Michael
>
> Hi,
>
> I like the idea of putting logs in a 'log' subdirectory of the data file
> folder and also putting the backups in a 'backup' subdirectory of the data
> file folder. GnuCash would create these on startup if needed.
>
> If I could get general approval in principle, I could even start work on
> it.
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
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