[GNC] Move working files

[R Losey]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM Brook Milligan <brook at nmsu.edu> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 10, 2024, at 12:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> > That said, you could tune your backup program to exclude the backup and
> log files or you could switch to the SQLite3 backend that modifies the data
> file in place and so doesn’t make backup files (which are really the
> previous XML file renamed with the timestamp). In the latter case you’d
> still have the log files. There’s at present there’s no way to tell GnuCash
> to move the previous XML file to another directory nor to write the log
> files to another directory.
>
> It would be _really_ helpful to be able to configure the (sub?)directory
> for these files.  Most times there is no need to clutter the main directory
> with all the extra files, and if they are ever needed they can be copied
> into the main directory to replace the main book
>
> Cheers,
> Brook
>

Brook, I completely agree... having the "working" files somewhere other
than the main data file would be helpful.
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