[GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

[Phyllis Bruce]

Has anyone suggested that you look back at older log files and recover from
one that is more complete?  What's gone today may not have been gone last
month.  Just saying....

On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 9:42 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 2/5/2023 4:26 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> > I'll briefly chime in here to suggest that network issues and potential
> simultaneous access are more likely culprits for your data corruption and
> loss.
> >
> I will second that. Gnucash does NOT support multiple simultaneous
> users. It does support multiple sequential users but if used that way
> the message "could not obtain lock" has to be treated very seriously. A
> single user can override this and proceed anyway, but if there is ANY
> chance a different user is accessing the data cannot do that.
>
> For a program to support multiple simultaneous users it must be running
> UNDER the control of a DBM (database manager) program. In which case the
> simultaneous users might not even be using the same program to access
> the database (as long as all such programs are running under the control
> of the DBM). Back in my working days maintained apps running under DB2
> (a DBM for mainframe SQL).
>
> So in a case like this, multiple users and the data on a network drive,
> that is overwhelmingly likely the problem. Unless you can definitely
> rule out simultaneous access issues, look no farther. No point in trying
> to analyze the details of what happened to the data because the
> consequences of simultaneous access are unpredictable.
>
>
> Michael D Novack
>
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