Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread D. via gnucash-user
. It looks as if the note might only apply to some of the bullets-- but which ones? I don't know... (BTW, a chapter number would have helped locate the passage). David Original Message From: Chris Green Sent: Wed Feb 03 08:52:36 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject:

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:46:35AM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 2/3/21 3:47 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I can't really work that way as I have two independent sets of > > accounts to manage. If you just swapped from one to the other within > > Gnucash I hate to think how you'd unscramble th

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I use several books too, and switch from within GnuCash without issue, but each one is stored in a different folder, so the logs stay separated as well. (they are also named to match the data file. I suppose my names are sufficiently different, that even if they were in the same folder, I could

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 07:17:12AM -0500, D. wrote: > > > Although I don't use the sqlite back end, I can answer that: > > > > > > 1) yes log files happen with the db back ends > > > > So the documentation is simply wrong, does this mean the documentation > > needs fixing or the code needs fixing

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Chris, What documentation were you consulting that is "completely wrong"? David Original Message From: Chris Green Sent: Wed Feb 03 04:40:45 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite) On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:52:00PM -0500, Joseph Vernice wrote: > You can try creating a link pointing to where you want to save the logs. > Unfortunately, if you use this method, everything in the folder will be > saved to the linked folder, including mom GC files. > No, the idea would be to sepa

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:27:05PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I rarely shut down GnuCash and usually leave it open 24/7 save for updates > to either it, or MacOS. Other than shutdowns, perhaps eventually it writes a > log after so many transactions. I use it daily, and see 19 log files of

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:33:19PM -0500, D. wrote: > Although I don't use the sqlite back end, I can answer that: > > 1) yes log files happen with the db back ends So the documentation is simply wrong, does this mean the documentation needs fixing or the code needs fixing? :-) > 2) no you can

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-02 Thread Joseph Vernice
You can try creating a link pointing to where you want to save the logs. Unfortunately, if you use this method, everything in the folder will be saved to the linked folder, including mom GC files. On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 9:57 AM Chris Green wrote: > I run gnucash on Linux with a sqlite3 database.

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
s is a long long long standing request) 3) not sure, but probably you could Original Message From: Chris Green Sent: Tue Feb 02 09:56:15 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite) I run gnucash on Linux with a sqlite3 database.

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-02 Thread D. via gnucash-user
hris Green Sent: Tue Feb 02 09:56:15 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite) I run gnucash on Linux with a sqlite3 database. Although the Help says the log file preferences only apply when using XML I still get log files saved every time I quit gnuc

[GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Green
I run gnucash on Linux with a sqlite3 database. Although the Help says the log file preferences only apply when using XML I still get log files saved every time I quit gnucash. So, a couple of questions:- Should this happen (log files with sqlite)? Can I get the log files stored somewher