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

[David Carlson]

Desktop computers still benefit from ups power both against outages and
(hopefully) surges.  Laptops already have a battery.  These days many of us
also depend on network and/or internet connections for data and backups.
Makes life interesting when there are so many potential failure modes to
consider.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 5:14 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> 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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