[GNC] Exiting GNUCash

[David Carlson]

That is an issue with the way you have your file system organized, but it
is not necessarily bad or wrong, just an artifact, I think.  I do not use
OneDrive or equivalent yet myself because I have not decided how to manage
that very issue of the lag while background updates are happening to my
data file storage system.

You are getting that lock warning because your OneDrive has not caught up
with you yet.  If you open anyway, you are burdening the OneDrive with more
work to keep the data intact, and I do not know if it can handle that, thus
I do not try it.  Perhaps other users of that type of arrangement can give
us their experience.That is probably also the cause of the Save Changes
warning.  That may actually lose your recent work just as warned.  Again,
perhaps others have experience with OneDrive.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:38 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 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:
>
> I select "Open Anyway" and the test entry is gone.  I hope this make it
> more clear.
>
>
> Thank You,
> *Gyle McCollam*
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> 609.680.2326                     Mobile
>
> gmccollam at live.com <gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
> ------------------------------
> *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> 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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