[GNC] Exiting GNUCash

[David Carlson]

Good.  I would still like to hear from others about their experience with
using GnuCash and OneDrive together.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:15 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:

> David, thanks for the prompt response.  I have used it this way for years
> and it used to work.  Fortunately, I don't usually forget to save first.
> When I do save, I have no issues.
>
> Thank You,
> *Gyle McCollam*
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> 609.680.2326                     Mobile
>
> gmccollam at live.com <gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
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> *From:* David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:01 PM
> *To:* Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>
> *Cc:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash
>
> 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
>
> gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
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