importing

[Colin Law]

On 9 October 2017 at 16:13, frank raney <frankraney130 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought it did something like that..I usually do save periodically when working for long periods,  But I got so involved, I forgot.....How do I get/install an sql backend.

I thought the default was to auto-save every 5 minutes or something.
Are you absolutely certain that you have lost everything? Are you sure
you are looking at the correct file?

Colin

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> Frankie Raney
> 12454 Auberry Rd.
> Clovis, Ca.
> 559.297.8577 H
> 559.304.1751 C
> On 10/9/2017 6:43:14 AM, Aaron Laws <dartme18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 9:27 PM, frank raney <frankraney130 at gmail.com [mailto:frankraney130 at gmail.com]> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Frankie Raney
> 12454 Auberry Rd.
> Clovis, Ca.
> 559.297.8577 [tel:559.297.8577] H
> 559.304.1751 [tel:559.304.1751] C
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> Oh, that's so painful; know that we feel your pain!
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> 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.
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