If I delete a file in a `1-in` directory, re-running `hledger-flow import` does not remove the corresponding files in the `2-preprocessed` and `3-journal` directories about hledger-flow HOT 4 OPEN

Yes, I also run into this from time to time, and then I manually delete those generated files.

I guess we can automatically delete all files in 2-preprocessed and 3-journal during each import - but I don't know if some people have put other files they care about in those directories.

Maybe if we limit our auto-deletion to just .csv and .journal files it should be safe

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Just one data point: I'm quite new to this tool, and have read a lot of the documentation over the last few weeks. All the documentation I read left me under the impression that these 2-preprocessed and 3-journal directories are auto-generated, I wouldn't expect anything I put in them to be "safe". (Heck, I probably wouldn't have even version controlled them if not for the comment here about "In a typical software project we don’t add generated files to version control...")

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I posted an issue related to this. How do you guys edit your journal files for things you don't catch with the rules file?

Ledger handles this by only importing new items from the csv using a .latest file in the csv directory to track what's already been imported. They also only add to the end of a journal, never overwrite it.

Starting to feel like I should always be running hledger-flow with --new-files-only and use hledger to import csv files that get updated.

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@TC72, good question! I left a comment over on your issue: #111 (comment)

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