[GNC] Today's search....for .lck

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

On 8/6/23 11:14 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> Having all the GnuCash log files and such cluttering up the directory
> is a nuisance.

On 2023-08-06 09:23, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I'll add for those who are risk takers, there is:
> 
> Preferences > General > Retain log/backup files > 'Never'
> 
> or 'For' a short period of days, I think the default is '30' which might
> be a bit much. ('Forever' is just mean, but I guess some folks need/want
> that option)

On that same Preferences » General screen there's a setting for how
often GC should autosave. I think the default is every 5 minutes.
I've set it to 10, which reduces the clutter by 50% without much
increasing the risk, in my judgment.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've never once needed to look at a log
file or autosave file, in almost six years of using GC. The bad news is,
I have no practice in looking at them, so if ever I need to I won't
exactly be hitting the ground running.

I use GC almost every day. I keep the retention period short, at 3 days.
Since I use GC almost every day, I figure any problem would show up
while I still had backup files available. And there's also my own weekly
backups of my whole disk.

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