[GNC] Scary moment

[John Layman]

Writing to SSD is not instantaneous and I've found auto-save to be an
annoyance.  I much prefer creating backups at coherent checkpoints by
SAVEing.  I am frequently working with two books open (business and
personal) and transactions such as funds transfers affect both books.  For
backups to be coherent, I need to invoke them manually.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=ieee.org at gnucash.org>
On Behalf Of Simon Roberts
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2022 1:50 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Scary moment

New user (refugee from Intuit, finally) question on this topic:

Given that these days we tend to have vast disks, and they're often very
fast SSDs, I'm inclined to enable auto-save and set a relatively short
interval (perhaps as little as a minute?)

Are there issues with doing this that I've not thought of? If my file gets
to several years worth, will it get large enough that this actually takes a
non-trivial amount of time? Will it be unmanageable for other reasons?

Thanks for your wisdom,
Simon


On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:16 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 12/30/2022 1:02 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I suppose there could have been a bug..
> >
> > GnuCash is supposed to prevent you from exiting if there is unsaved
data.
>
> > However, I suppose there COULD be a way for you to shut down / close 
> > GnuCash in a way that prevents it from popping up that dialog box.
> >
> > -derek
>
> Of course there is. Simply shut down the computer over riding an 
> "there are apps still open" warnings.
>
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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