[GNC] Scary moment

[David H]

Simon,

I stick with the default compressed xml file data storage (the default)
with Gnucash and I NEVER autosave, that way if I stuff something up during
the session I just exit and tell Gnucash to NOT save the changes and then
re-open Gnucash with the previous version of the data file and start over.
It's easy enough and quick enough to click SAVE after major actions such as
getting quotes, doing a reconciliation, creating new accounts, yada yada
yada :-)

Cheers David H.


On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 at 04:51, Simon Roberts <simon at dancingcloudservices.com>
wrote:

> 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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