GNUcash crashes on save - losing all changes

[Bill Wohler]

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> writes:
>
>> Let me ask a question: if you have an unclean shutdown, saved or unsaved
>> changes notwithstanding, what does the orphaned lock file buy you?
>
> It informs the user that there was an unclean shutdown and they may
> have lost data -- or that they may need to replay the last logfile.
...
> There has not been a request to check the log timestamp and compare it
> to the data file time stamp...

...which would more precisely indicate that the log needed to be
replayed.

> PS: IMHO this whole direction is a goose chase -- the endgame is
> moving to an embedded SQL backend and most of this issue will go away.
> So, frankly, I really don't want to spend precious developer-hours
> working on major changes to what I consider "dead-end backend code".

That slipped my mind. Agreed.

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