[GNC] Exiting GNUCash

Gyle McCollam gmccollam at live.com
Tue Jan 18 11:38:24 EST 2022


David, Hopefully I can clarify what is happening.  I did not abandon an edit.  I finished an entry, but clicked on the "x" to shutdown before saving.  Included is a screenshot of a test entry that was completed (see last line).  Then, I clicked on the "x" to shutdown and the dialogue popped up.[cid:13fe74e9-29dc-46de-93ae-098df25f8bf1]
I seem to remember that "cancel" brought you back into GNUCash and "save" atctually save the current state of the file.  Now, it doesn't matter which option I choose it, I think it crashes GNUCash.  Then on the next startup it tells me:[cid:c9760e93-3ab7-463a-b171-63760bce15bd]

I select "Open Anyway" and the test entry is gone.  I hope this make it more clear.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 8:46 PM
To: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash

It is not clear what you think happened.  It seems that more than one thing did not transpire as you expected, since abandoning an edit, the presumed cause of the shutdown without saving warning, and the attempt to open a file already in use are different events.
Then how did you ascertain that, in fact, GnuCash did not save.  What, exactly did it not save?  Did you allow sufficient time for GnuCash to actually complete the entire shutdown?  Sometimes it takes a really long time to shut down.  For example, when Linux decides to put some of GnuCash's virtual RAM onto hard drive swap space, it may take over a minute for the OS to recover and close the open file.



On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 6:04 PM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at live.com>> wrote:
I usually don't forget to save first so I don't know how long this has been happening.  Today I didn't save, so when the dialogue box came up, I selected "cancel".  GNUCash shutdown without saving and when I tried to open it thought there was another instance running, but I said open anyway.  I tested this again with the same result.  Then I tried it again, this time telling the system to save.  It shut down again, but it did not save!  I got the same message about the file already in use.

Has anyone else encounter this error?  I am using Win11 and GNUCash 4.9.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

609.680.2326                     Mobile

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