System crash, gnucash taunting me, part N+1

[Linas Vepstas]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:29:17AM -0500, Boris Goldowsky was heard to remark:
> 
> But I've encountered similar situations - I often run Gnucash over ssh 
> from a different machine, and sometimes the ssh connection gets 
> disconnected.  I have not lost a lot yet, since I do save often.
> 
> One thing that would be useful in this situation is that if Gnucash 
> received a hangup signal (or was sent one on purpose with kill -1), it 
> should save and exit cleanly.  If you you want to preserve the behavior 
> of never-overwrite-datafile-unless-explicitly-told-to-do-so, you could 
> have the save in that case go into a different file - <filename>.crash, 
> say.  Then you could use it or not, as appropriate.

Yeah, good idea, and should be easy to do.


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