[GNC] Scary moment

[William Prescott]

I've been using it for 10+ years. My file is just over 1 MegaByte. It looks like it autosaves every 5 minutes and keeps the backups for one month. These are probably the default values. I don't remember ever changing them. My current Gnucash folder has 177 MB in it and 135 of that is an old archive from 2011 with about 130 backups in it that never were deleted for some reason.

Will

On Dec 30, 2022, at 13:09, Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:

Simon,
I have been using Gnucash for 7 years now, but only for my personal finance needs.  I have my auto save set for 5 minutes and I never even notice when it happens.  I enter hundreds of transactions a month and my file is still measured in kbs.  So it depends on the size of the file.


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email

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Subject: Re: [GNC] Scary moment

New user (refugee from Intuit, finally) question on this topic:

Given that these days we tend to have vast disks, and they're often very
fast SSDs, I'm inclined to enable auto-save and set a relatively short
interval (perhaps as little as a minute?)

Are there issues with doing this that I've not thought of? If my file gets
to several years worth, will it get large enough that this actually takes a
non-trivial amount of time? Will it be unmanageable for other reasons?

Thanks for your wisdom,
Simon


On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:16 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 12/30/2022 1:02 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> I suppose there could have been a bug..
>> 
>> GnuCash is supposed to prevent you from exiting if there is unsaved data.
> 
>> However, I suppose there COULD be a way for you to shut down / close
>> GnuCash in a way that prevents it from popping up that dialog box.
>> 
>> -derek
> 
> Of course there is. Simply shut down the computer over riding an "there
> are apps still open" warnings.
> 
> 
> Michael D Novack
> 
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