[GNC] Post crash recovery log file suggestion

[David Carlson]

Of course you could do a File > Save just before embarking upon some more
risky activity such as a OFX import or after downloading security prices...

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 15, 2022, at 11:10 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > As 4.9 does abort ungracefully from time to time, I grow weary of
> reentering my unsaved transactions.  I suggest that you post them to a new
> sort of log file as I go, so I do not have to save megabytes of almost
> duplicate files so often to avoid this.  Of course, if I leave the cursor
> on a modified line, I still might lose that line, unless you can log that
> along with its state when I change tabs.   (Maybe I should be warned when I
> change tabs that I left an uncommitted transaction, not later when I
> save?)  When the app starts, it can check the file and replay.  When there
> is a save and the normal files are closed or flushed to disk, the new log
> file can be truncated.  It'd be very much like an RDBMS log.  And perhaps a
> way to allow us to save less often?
>
> We do, that's what the *.log files in the same directory as your data file
> are. Note, though, that they log only transactions and their splits.
> Nothing else, especially not the business stuff, is logged.
>
>
> To re-enter them use File>Import>Replay GnuCash Log File.
>
> You could enable auto-save in preferences, but when that runs it blocks
> the UI so it can be a bit tedious if you have a large file. You might also
> consider the SQLite3 backend that writes the database immediately when you
> complete a transaction, at the expense of not making a backup file and not
> being able to quit without saving if you decide you've made a mess of a
> session.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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David Carlson