Re: [GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Glenn Fowler
Hi Chris, I can confirm at least on Windows & v4.5 that "Never" will create log files but not backups. "Forever" never deletes anything. And yes they will only get cleared the next time you run GnuCash On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:57 AM Chris Green wrote: > Typically my complaint about inaccurate

Re: [GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Chris Green
Typically my complaint about inaccurate wording/description is full of typos! :-) Fixes inserted... On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > It's more than a 'misnomer', it simply wrong, especially given the three It's more than a 'misnomer', it's simply wrong, especially

Re: [GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 11:11:34AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > GnuCash will always make backups. The "Retain log/backup" label is a > little bit of a misnomer -- it's asking how how often to clean up the > logs/backups -- so by saying "never" you are saying you never want to > clean up.

Re: [GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, GnuCash will always make backups. The "Retain log/backup" label is a little bit of a misnomer -- it's asking how how often to clean up the logs/backups -- so by saying "never" you are saying you never want to clean up. If you truly never want to keep backups, your best bet is to set it for l

Re: [GNC] Type-ahead search stalls

2021-05-02 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Sebastian, This may be related to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798162, which I posted recently. If you think it's the same problem, please add any details you have there for the developer's benefit. The bug includes a link to the mailing list thread that led to the bug submission.

[GNC] Type-ahead search stalls

2021-05-02 Thread cirakana via gnucash-user
Hello When I try to assign an account to a transaction in the register the type-ahead stalls. After I type one or two characters nothing shows up and I can't edit the text field for at least a couple of seconds. After the delay I can type a character more (or delete a character) and the field f

[GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Chris Green
I have "Retain log/backup files" set to "Never" in my Gnucash preferences but I'm still getting a log file created every time I run Gnucash. I'm running GnuCash 3.10, Build ID: 3.10+(2020-04-11) on Xubuntu Linux. I'm using sqlite rather than XML, might this be having an effect? Is this a known bu