Thanks. Don't know why I couldn't see that before. I guess the
terminology didn't register in my mind.
On 4/29/2020 11:59 AM, David H wrote:
David T.,
Preferences >> General >> Path Head for Transaction Association Files
is probably the setting you're looking for :-)
Cheers David H.
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 16:12, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com
<mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
If the setting were per book and user-configurable, then a user could
choose to set each data file to use a different set of folders, by
changing the file default from "logs" to "logs-file1"
Does the Attachments functionality provide a blueprint for how this
could work for backups and logs? It seems to me that there is a
setting
somewhere that allows the user to point to a particular folder for
external file association (although my attempts at locating that
setting
have failed).
But your point about the logs and backups having different
filenames is
apt as well.
David T.
On 4/29/2020 8:55 AM, Chris Good wrote:
> From: David H <hell...@gmail.com <mailto:hell...@gmail.com>>
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2020 12:49 PM
> To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com
<mailto:goodchri...@gmail.com>>
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs
>
>
>
> Chris,
>
>
>
> How would you see this working with my 2 data files that I have
in the same gnucash folder ??? Would the subdirectory(ies)
include the name of the data file to clearly identify them or
would all log/backup files be lumped in together in a single
subdirectory ? When I save my gnucash file under another name
using save as would it create the required subdirectories for the
new data file if they are separate subdirectories ?
>
>
>
> My own situation is that I've set the log files to be deleted
after 30 days which seems to work on Mac Catalina. My data files
are in a dedicated folder in my Documents folder and I must
confess that I have NEVER had a need to go looking for backup
files or log files since starting with Gnucash in 2010.
>
>
>
> Cheers David Halverson.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:48, Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com
<mailto:goodchri...@gmail.com> <mailto:goodchri...@gmail.com
<mailto:goodchri...@gmail.com>> > wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net
<mailto:stepbystepf...@comcast.net>
<mailto:stepbystepf...@comcast.net
<mailto:stepbystepf...@comcast.net>> >
> Sent: Tue Apr 28 22:11:04 GMT+05:30 2020
> To: "D." <sunfis...@yahoo.com <mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>
<mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com <mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>> >
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org
<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> >
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs
>
> On 4/27/2020 10:50 PM, D. wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> I take your point; we users will often create duplicated file
names for
> different content. I believe that many users only keep one set
of books. I
> don't have any statistics on general GnuCash usage to be able to
say whether
> more users have one file or many.
>> However, given that operating systems prevent identical file
names to
>> coexist in a folder, it would seem to me that there is a simple
remedy
>> to overlapping log files: per book log folder settings. In your
case,
>> business1financials/ledger.gnucash would use
business1financials/logs
>> and organization1financials/ledger.gnucash would use
>> organization1financials/logs
>>
>> Problem solved.
>>
> Yes, but that is solving the problem by a different method (not
writing the
> log files to a dedicated directory for all log files but writing
them into a
> subdirectory of the directory containing the data file).
> Would be easy for gnucash when starting to check for the
existence of this
> subdirectory, if not there, create it. Much as it checks for the
existence
> of a lock file.
>
> Had THAT been suggested you would not have seen an objection
from me.
> But about "almost all users have only one set of books" I have
to laugh.
> If all those rare situations never existed, designing/writing
software would
> be a snap. Software solution have to ALWAYS work. A commonly
quoted rule of
> rule of thumb, 80% of the design/write time will be handling
just 20% of the
> cases, but in my experience, 50% of the time will be handling
those that are
> 1% or less.
>
> Michael
>
> Hi,
>
> I like the idea of putting logs in a 'log' subdirectory of the
data file
> folder and also putting the backups in a 'backup' subdirectory
of the data
> file folder. GnuCash would create these on startup if needed.
>
> If I could get general approval in principle, I could even start
work on it.
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> Hi David H,
>
>
>
> The backup filenames and log filenames already include the book
name and I see no reason to change that.
>
> People could still have multiple books in the same directory,
although I suggest best practice is to put each book’s data file
in a separate directory.
>
>
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
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