[GNC] Gnucash logs

[David H]

David T.,

Preferences >> General >> Path Head for Transaction Association Files is
probably the setting you're looking for :-)

Cheers David H.


On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 16:12, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 <mailto:
> goodchris96 at gmail.com> > wrote:
> >
> > -------- 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,
> >
> > 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi David H,
> >
> >
> >
> > The backup filenames and log filenames already include the book name and
> I see no reason to change that.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards, Chris Good
> >
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