importing

[Frankie Raney]

Yes, yes, and yes. It was, is the only file....when it crashed it went
away....I saved it after importing, and looked at it with file
browser....it was there....then I went back, run GC and started
editing......when GC crashed, the file went to lala land. Only the log file
was left.....

On Oct 9, 2017 8:26 AM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > 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 [tel:559.297.8577] H
> > 559.304.1751 [tel: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.
> >
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