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On Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 at 04:03, Max Crystal <maxietax at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> Every time I open and close the register it creates a notepad log entry on
> my hard drive. Can I disable this so I will not have multiple entries every
> day.
> 
> Max

Can't tell if you are using GnuCash on a UNIX-like platform. but,
if you arem then I have a couple of Makefile targets, one that lists
all of my "old files" and one that removes them all

Note also that I have files named personal-??.xac where the ?? is a
two letter country code - your filenames may differ, (indeed, I think
the dot-xac is showing my age a little?) but adapting the commands 
to match your filenames shouldn't be too hard.


list-old-personal:
        find .    -name personal-??.xac.`date +%Y%m`\* \
            -a \! -name personal-??.xac.`date +%Y%m%d`\* -print

list-old-personal-and-rm:
        find .    -name personal-??.xac.`date +%Y%m`\* \
            -a \! -name personal-??.xac.`date +%Y%m%d`\* -print | xargs rm -f


FWIW, you can use the power of 'expr' to clear out last month's

list-last-month-personal:
        l=`date +%Y%m` ; \
        find .    -name personal-??.xac.`expr $$l - 1`\* -print ;

list-last-month-personal-and-rm:
        l=`date +%Y%m` ; \
        find .    -name personal-??.xac.`expr $$l - 1`\* -print | xargs rm -f ; 

and even the previous year's

list-last-year-personal:
        l=`date +%Y` ; \
        find .    -name personal-??.xac.`expr $$l - 1`\* -print

list-last-year-personal-and-rm:
        l=`date +%Y` ; \
        find .    -name personal-??.xac.`expr $$l - 1`\* -print | xargs rm


although note that if you run these commands from the command line, 
drop the $$l for $l, as the doubling is a Makefile escape.

HTH, although apologies for the noise if you are not on a UNIX-like 
platform.