[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 09:25, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the save process.  Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving?

I think it should not be possible to shutdown after clicking Save but
before it has finished saving.  If that is possible then that suggests
a bug.  That possibility would appear to fit many of the facts the
however.

Colin

>
> David T.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 14:23, Michael Hendry
> <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8 Feb 2019, at 08:38, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On a Mac is it possible to open a second instance of GC while one is
> > still running?
>
> Yes, but opening the second instance brings up the lock file warning, and this is the first time I’ve seen that warning in many weeks.
>
> It usually happens after a power cut, or when I’ve had to power down the computer without an orderly shutdown.
>
> > If so another possibility is that you did not save and
> > close the first instance so it was still open when you started GC
> > again?
>
> …so I don’t think that’s the problem.
>
>
> >  Then you would get the lock message and would find that the
> > reconcile had not been saved.  On the other hand the original one
> > would still have been lying around, so I would have thought you would
> > have noticed that at some point.
> >
> > Colin
>
> What was unusual about the work that preceded this incident was that I clicked “Save” and then promptly shut Gnucash down - I usually find that when I come to quit Gnucash the “Save” button is already greyed, indicating that an auto-save has already taken place.
>
> Michael
>
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