[GNC] undo needed, was Re: Reconciliation is not adding up correctly
Elmar
etschme at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 13:29:29 EST 2019
Found it - thanks :)
On 1/31/19 1:10 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:28 AM Elmar <etschme at gmail.com
> <mailto:etschme at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm running 2.6.12; that setting does not exist in the
> preferences. The
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup says that this folder HOME
> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#HOME>/.gconf/apps/gnucash/
>
> should exist, but it does not, nor is there any gsettings file in
> HOME
> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#HOME>/.gnucash
> (Linux Mint 18.3 btw). - Elmar
>
> On 1/31/19 4:14 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 09:08, Elmar <etschme at gmail.com
> <mailto:etschme at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> Open simultaneously - that sounds dangerous to my galloping
> senility :)
> >> Normally I run into this when I have been working on the file
> for an
> >> hour or so, having done some 20 or 30 operations e.g. end of month
> >> multiple bank statement reconciles, then I screw up something.
> A quick
> >> ctrl-z would save a whole lot of grief.
> > Configure Auto Save to save the file every 5 minutes. Then you
> should
> > not need to go back and redo more than that. Unless you are unlucky
> > enough to make an erroneous change and by coincidence it immediately
> > saves before you have time to close without saving.
> >
> > Colin
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> I believe the AutoSave feature has been present for many years under
> Edit > Preferences > General > Files and should be in 2.6.12. The
> problem with that is that it freezes the UI during the save, which can
> take more than a minute for some combinations of data file size and
> locations of program, user and data. Twenty percent or more
> unavailability is not acceptable. Worse, Auto means that it happens
> exactly when the quarterback has the ball, the defensive line is
> breaking through, the receivers are all covered with flypaper and the
> TV replay cameras are not properly aimed.
>
> That is why I choose manually when I want my backups.
>
> David Carlson
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