Q. I downloaded my journals to the same folder the game writes to and went nuts!
A. Don't do this. Download them either to a sub-folder of that location, or somewhere else entirely. Many third-party softwares that monitor journal files, e.g. Elite Dangerous Market Connector, will switch to whatever the latest file in the folder is, regardless of the timestamp on it (or in its name)
This may well be negated by #28
Q. I downloaded my journals to the same folder the game writes to and went nuts!
A. Don't do this. Download them either to a sub-folder of that location, or somewhere else entirely. Many third-party softwares that monitor journal files, e.g. Elite Dangerous Market Connector, will switch to whatever the latest file in the folder is, regardless of the timestamp on it (or in its name)