Re: When does GnuCash create .log files?
To be useful the logfiles should be being written as each transaction is recorded rather than only at the end of a session. In the latter case if a crash/programming fault causes Gnucash to exit abnormally the log file would contain no useful information. Autosave should only be working on the main data file and not the logfiles. I have just closed down gnucash at 09:39:54 local time. date Modified The logfile is named:TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170517093954.log Tue 16th May 2017 18:49:11 AEST The last backup is named:TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170517093954.gnucash Wed 17th May 201709:39:54 AEST The current file is : TestBooksBudget.gnucash Wed 17th may 2017 09:39:54 AEST The previous logfile:TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170516184911.log Wed 17th May 2017 09:39:39 AEST The previous backup: TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170516184911.gnucash Tue 16th May 2017 18:44:10 AEST. If I now open Gnucash the backup file remains the same as the above at this point. A new log file is opened TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170517095417.log Wed 17th May 2017 09:54:17 AEST The previous data file is renamed: TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170517095918.gnucashWed 17th May 2017 09:59:18 AEST. ( the time difference is most likely that required to open and read the previous data file. A file TestBooksBudget.gnucash.a8c00400.13920.LNK Wed 17th May 2017 09:54:17 AEST is also created when the file is reopened along with the lock file, TestBooksBudget.gnucash.LCK Wed 17th May 2017 09:54:17 AEST. Have no idea yet what the first file does? This tends to support the view that the logfile is opened at the start of a new gnucash session and then transactions are written to it as they occur. I have an autosave interval of 5 mins. A new back up file TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170517095918.gnucash Wed 17th May 2017 09:39:54 AEST and a new log file TestBooksBudget.gnucash.20170517095918.log Wed 17th May 2017 09:59:18 are created at the end of the autosave interval. (Gnucash 2.6.16 on Linux Mint 18.1) David Cousens -- View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/When-does-GnuCash-create-log-files-tp4691667p4691675.html Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: When does GnuCash create .log files?
Google blocked this email so I amtrying again. I cannot find any better description in the help files than what you mentioned Buddha. However, in Windows GuCash makes a full save on that schedule instead of making a .log file. The result is that there is usually pnly one log file and sometimes none if I do an early save. David C Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 5 ACTIVE™, an AT 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Buddha Buck <blaisepas...@gmail.com> Date: 5/16/17 2:41 PM (GMT-06:00) To: David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com>, gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: When does GnuCash create .log files? I believe, perhaps incorrectly, that the .log files are updated when a change is made, and are dated based on the last (auto)save. So the most recent log file will have an entry for each transaction since the last save. On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:32 PM David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: I didn't say that correctly. I meant that I thought that GnuCash created .log files periodically when the auto-save interval has passed since the next edit after the last save or auto-save. Then they would be useful if it had been a while since the last full save. With the current behavior (release 2.6.15 in Windows 7) the frequent full saves seem superfluous to me. David C ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. On May 16, 2017 2:42 PM, "Buddha Buck" <blaisepas...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe, perhaps incorrectly, that the .log files are updated when a > change is made, and are dated based on the last (auto)save. So the most > recent log file will have an entry for each transaction since the last save. > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:32 PM David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I didn't say that correctly. I meant that I thought that GnuCash created >> .log files periodically when the auto-save interval has passed since the >> next edit after the last save or auto-save. Then they would be useful if >> it had been a while since the last full save. >> >> With the current behavior (release 2.6.15 in Windows 7) the frequent full >> saves seem superfluous to me. >> >> >> David C >> ___ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> - >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
When does GnuCash create .log files?
I used to think that GnuCash created .log files periodically when theauto-save interval has passed since the last edit. Now, it seems that GnuCash does a complete file save according to that interval. If that is the case, why have a .log file? David C ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.