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

[David T.]

On 4/21/2022 8:07 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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
[snip]
>> 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.

This is an outstanding feature request:https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1470507-configuration-option-for-backup-location