importing

[Aaron Laws]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 9:27 PM, frank raney <frankraney130 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just finished 6 hours correcting all the data i imported and before I
> could save it, the program crashed. All I have is the unchanged imported
> data file........When it crashed, the file was lost but there is a log
> file......what it is I don't know.....  Guess I have to start all over?
>
>
> Frankie Raney
> 12454 Auberry Rd.
> Clovis, Ca.
> 559.297.8577 H
> 559.304.1751 C
>

Oh, that's so painful; know that we feel your pain!

If you use a sql backend (sqlite is certainly the easiest to set up), it
saves everything you do as you do it. This means two things: you won't have
the catastrophe that you described, and you can't back out of changes by
closing without saving. Either way, you'll want to take periodic backup
"snapshots" of your books.