Total Crash and Lost Data

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 18 12:20:43 EST 2011


On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you
>>> could lose data by using them.
>>>
>>
>> However it is also unfortunately true that for some time the principle
>> download link on the home page was to the alpha version and it was not
>> at all clear that it was an alpha version.  I can quite see how users
>> found themselves running this thinking they had a stable release.
>
> That conflicts with what I've seen on the website.

Note that I said "for some time".  The website was much improved some
time in October I think.  See also
http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Status-of-gnucash-need-for-clarification-tt1434648.html#a1434650

Colin


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