recovery

[Ron Morse]

I think I would be more interested in fixing whatever is causing the
crash in the first place. Frequent crashing of either an application or
the operating system is neither normal or correct. There is a problem
there that needs to be addressed. 

Ron Morse

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 22:13 +0000, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> I am sure crash recovery is not an issue for too many users. As it is,
> I crash at least once a day and I am not finding this manual process
> very end-user friendly.
> 
> I just had a crash and I am presented with 7 log files which were
> created to-day. I save often (due to the regular crashes). 
> 
> Presumably, everytime I save a new log file is created? I can see
> that the youngest log file is created upon restart. Does that mean that
> I only ever have to replay the penultimate log file after a crash? 
> 
> 
> There is no way I can remember which transactions I entered since the
> last save. All I can do is spot check whether I managed to recover all
> lost transactions. You can well imagine that I am worried about losing
> my data.
> 
> In my view, the end user should not have to dig around log files in
> order to recover. Quicken does not need to to recover after a crash as
> every transaction is saved when committed. When OpenOffice crashes, you
> simply press a recover button. Would that not be possible with gnucash?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
> 
> 
> A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
> Q: Why is top posting bad? 
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