[GNC] Gnucash logs
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 29 02:51:09 EDT 2020
Thanks. Don't know why I couldn't see that before. I guess the
terminology didn't register in my mind.
On 4/29/2020 11:59 AM, David H wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:hellvee at gmail.com>>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 12:49 PM
> > To: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com
> <mailto:goodchris96 at gmail.com>>
> > Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> <mailto: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> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com>> >
> > Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> <mailto: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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