Total Crash and Lost Data

[Colin Law]

On 18 January 2011 17:30, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> The announcement for 2.3.4 on 2009-08-19 reads:

I am not disputing any of that.  All I am saying is that for a while
the website was confusing, this was acknowledged and some significant
work was done, resulting in great improvements.  There is no denying
that a number of users picked up 2.3 thinking it was the right version
to use.  There have been a number of examples of people in this
situation asking for help on the user list.

Colin

>
> GnuCash 2.3.4 (Unstable) released
>
> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.4, the fifth of
> several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software
> which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new
> release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or
> PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac
> OSX.
>
> WARNING: This is an *UNSTABLE* version of Gnucash.
>
> This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help
> tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.
>
> Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash
> in the 2.3.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure
> that no data will be lost we cannot guarantee that your data will not be
> affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.
>
> NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.2.9.
>
>>
>> Colin
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnucash-devel mailing list
>> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
>>
>
>