GnuCash with bad network connection

[Kenneth Schneider]

My suggestion is to save the file locally first and then copy it to your file server.

Ken Schneider 

> On Jul 31, 2017, at 3:44 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My home Wi-Fi has suddenly developed a bad case of dropouts in spite of a
> very strong signal.  Several times a day various devices need to reconnect.
> 
> With that background, if GnuCash is in the process of saving the data file
> (over Wi-Fi) when the dropout happens, GnuCash appears to hang and my
> Windows 7 OS reports that the file save failed and after the destination
> returns it asks me if I want to try again, but it needs a file name.
> 
> Through trial and error I was able to revive Gnucash and let it do the save
> using it's internal procedure without crashing and losing data.
> 
> My question is whether there is a place in the documentation that
> summarizes troubleshooting various file save problems such as this or
> possibly other issues with saving or backing up to places other than the
> local hard drive.
> 
> I heard through the grapevine that the Q product has recently been having
> serious data loss issues with this type of network problem.
> 
> David C
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