[GNC] Gnucash logs

[David H]

It is a real mouthful :-)

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 16:53, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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