Total Crash and Lost Data

[Geert Janssens]

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