Total Crash and Lost Data
Geert Janssens
janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Jan 18 11:39:57 EST 2011
On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Randy,
>
> "Randy Aldering" <alderingr at housesmithe.com> writes:
> > Good grief, my apologies. One could resent the suggestion that the users
> > of GnuCash and other OpenSource projects do not support them
> > financially. For my type of personality, all of that reading is a bit
> > much. GnuCash has not been generating .xac files for two years, and it
> > still isn't under the latest release, so that is not some thing that I
> > have a lot of control over,as far as I can tell.. By the by, I DID
> > search for data loss, and got nothing. I'm also not the type to write a
> > dissertation detailing "what happened" BEFORE I actually make contact
> > with some one. If that is some how "wrong," then that is truly
> > unfortunate. Thanks for all the help, any way. I appreciate the
> > thoughtful use of donation money.
>
> One thing you failed to mention in your email is that your "data loss"
> is due to you running an early Alpha version, 2.3.4, and using the
> SQLite storage mechanism. This is also why there are no automated
> backup files; the SQL backend doesn't create them (because, well,
> you can't just 'save' the data like the XML backend).
>
> Still, I thought we recovered your data when I was helping you on IRC
> yesterday? At least you left IRC happy. If you were still having
> problems you could have come back?
>
Hmm, I think Randy's mail to the list was delayed. I noticed David T already
replied to ithourse before the original mail appeared on the list.
Perhaps you helped Randy on IRC after he sent this mail ?
> -derek
>
> PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you
> could lose data by using them.
>
This is very true.
Geert
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