[GNC] Exiting GNUCash

[David Carlson]

David T,

Is One Drive able to hide all the file system lags that it introduces from
programs like GnuCash?  If so, I need to consider using it.  That is why I
am asking for more comments here.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 12:11 PM D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> What Gyle is describing has nothing to do with OneDrive. Gnucash shouldn't
> exit the program when he closes the "Save/Close without Saving/Cancel"
> dialog box by clicking the "X" for the dialog-- and it sure shouldn't leave
> the lock file in place when it does so. That the lock file still exists
> supports the idea of a crash.
>
> Gyle: what happens if you click Cancel?
>
> David T.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* David Carlson
> *Sent:* Tue Jan 18 12:01:53 EST 2022
> *To:* Gyle McCollam
> *Cc:* "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
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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> 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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