Hopefully the developers will take note that this is not only longstanding but fairly frequently requested -- and the present behavior is a source of consternation to a significant proportion of new GC users. The introduction of GC 4.x would be a great time to make this change.
Easy for me to say of course, but I don't think it would be that hard to add a setting in the GUI and have whatever writes the logs and lock file use that setting. And I would urge strongly that the setting should default to the normal location for temp files, not to the same location as the data file. Again, I'm thinking of the new user who is surprised to find dozens or even hundreds of extra files in the working directory after a long session when getting acquainted with GC. The normal location is %TEMP% in Windows. I don't know what it is in other operating systems, but I'm sure our developers do. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2020-04-25 21:01, D. via gnucash-user wrote: > Unfortunately, no. This is a long standing feature request. See: > > https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1470507-configuration-option-for-backup-location > > David T. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sat Apr 25 21:31:57 GMT+05:30 2020 > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: [GNC] Gnucash logs > > Is there any way to get Gnucash to write its logs in another directory > to keep its working directory less cluttered? _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
