[GNC] Gnucash logs

[David T.]

If the setting were per book and user-configurable, then a user could 
choose to set each data file to use a different set of folders, by 
changing the file default from "logs" to "logs-file1"

Does the Attachments functionality provide a blueprint for how this 
could work for backups and logs? It seems to me that there is a setting 
somewhere that allows the user to point to a particular folder for 
external file association (although my attempts at locating that setting 
have failed).

But your point about the logs and backups having different filenames is 
apt as well.

David T.

On 4/29/2020 8:55 AM, Chris Good wrote:

> From: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 12:49 PM
> To: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs
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> Chris,
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> 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 ?
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> 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.
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> Cheers David Halverson.
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> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:48, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com <mailto:goodchris96 at gmail.com> > wrote:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net <mailto:stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> >
> Sent: Tue Apr 28 22:11:04 GMT+05:30 2020
> To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com> >
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto: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,
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> 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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> Hi David H,
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> The backup filenames and log filenames already include the book name and I see no reason to change that.
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> People could still have multiple books in the same directory, although I suggest best practice is to put each book’s data file in a separate directory.
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> Regards, Chris Good
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