[GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

[Adrien Monteleone]

Interesting, I haven't experienced this (though I have experienced 
crashes, outages are handled by my UPS) but I am on an SSD, so maybe you 
are on to something.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/10/20 10:18 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote:
> At least on the Mac, there’s no guarantee that it is physically written to disk immediately.  I’ve experienced a handful of posted and printed invoices disappearing due to a power outage.  Probably less likely to happen on a system with an SSD drive, as there’s not as much reason to wait to flush disk buffers to disk.  This would be an issue with the SQLite implementation, likely not in GnuCash directly.
> 
>>
>> Correct, this is "commiting" the transaction.  At this stage it will only
>> go into the in-memory cache of your data.  It is not written to disk
>> (unless you're using a SQL backend -- that's one of the two main
>> differences between SQL and XML-File storage).
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