[GNC] Exiting GNUCash
D.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 18 13:46:20 EST 2022
David,
That's off topic. And I don't use OneDrive. Better to start a different topic.
David T.
-------- Original Message --------
From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tue Jan 18 13:42:16 EST 2022
To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>, "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash
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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