[GNC] Moving Log Location

[Stan Brown]

It's a long-standing request, enhancement requests have been entered,
but the developers have not taken them up. Can someone draw their
attention to this one? Judging from traffic on this list, it really is a
problem for many, many new users of GnuCash.

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Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
https://OakRoadSystems.com

On 2021-02-28 12:57, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Mike, 
> 
> This is already a long standing request, both in bugzilla and uservoice. See my other message on this thread for details. 
> 
> David T.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Mike Brady <mikee.bunch at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Sun Feb 28 15:22:23 EST 2021
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Moving Log Location
> 
> I understand the points about moving the main file into its own folder
> and letting all the logs and versions build up there. It would be
> helpful, though, for Gnucash to offer the option to dedicate a separate
> backup or logs directory for logs and versions. Guess I could submit
> that as a feature request, though I'm sure it's come up before and has
> not been done for reasons. In the meantime, it looks like the only way
> to keep a clean directory for my main "project" is to move the Gnucash
> data file to its own directory, and put a shortcut to it in my main
> directory.
> 
> I'm not complaining about Gnucash generating all that file traffic. It's
> helped a couple of times when recovering from (personally-induced, while
> getting the initial setup and the first couple of months right for me)
> errors. Only mildly grumbling about how it seems impossible to separate
> it from the main data file.
> 
> Mike Brady