[GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

[Derek Atkins]

HI,

On Thu, April 21, 2022 7:57 am, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:20:51PM +1000, davidcousens49 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
[snip]
> If I look in (one of) my Gnucash directories I see:-
>
>     chris at esprimo$ ls
>     building2022.gnucash
> general2022.gnucash.-452605816.1384867.LNK
>     building2022.gnucash.-452605816.1385351.LNK
> general2022.gnucash.-452605816.4124828.LNK
>     cheques                                      giftaid
>
> (cheques and giftaid are my own directories)
>
> It really would be much tidier and nicer if those gnucash files had no
> suffix at
> all, it's not necessary, especially in Linux.  Secondly it would be much
> nicer
> if the place wasn't littered wiht those .LNK files.

GnuCash deletes the LNK files when it shuts down cleanly.  If they still
exist, that means either GnuCash is running with those files open, or
GnuCash was NOT shut down cleanly when they had those files open.  In the
latter case, either you used the [x] to close it, or shut down the
computer..  Regardless, you will find when you try to re-open those files
that GnuCash will tell you that those files are "already open by another
user".

> As an example of the sort of thing I would expect look at this:-
>
>     chris at esprimo$ ls pcc
>     Pass_Certificate.pdf           'TR takeaway Jeremiah.pdf'
> auditedAc2019.pdf
>     SpiritualityOfFundraising.pdf   Whoswho.docx
> parishReturn2019.pdf
>
> No long suffixes, obvious names and no backup/log files in the same
> directory.

So you're complaining about 4 vs 7 characters in the suffix??  Seriously?

As for the logs/backups, I certainly see the point of storing those in a
"different" location, but ... where?  Keep in mind, this is financial
data, not some love-letter, so having an archive can be important.  So we
try very hard to ensure that we *CAN* make a backup, and the safest place
to ensure that is in the same place the data file is written.  But you're
right, we *could* make a subdir, like "gnucash-backups" and store the
files there.

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-derek

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