[GNC] Autosave question

scum buster scumbuster at comcast.net
Fri Oct 2 18:58:49 EDT 2026


I have it set to autosave and apparantly it ISNT autosaving.....its not 
just one transaction that gets lost...its a bunch, which were done 
during my last session (if I did not manually save it).

On 10/1/2026 5:56 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> I have the pre-build binaries of the 4.14 version running on Windows and it
> auto saves as well. If anything it would only be the current in-flight
> transaction not saved.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2026 2:29 PM
> To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>; ?
> scum buster <scumbuster at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Autosave question
>
> I'm still using a built-from-source 4.14, and the auto-save does in fact
> save the file.
>
> At Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:42:17 +0530 "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't use this feature, but the documentation very clearly states:
>>
>> "Auto-save time interval: This field sets the number of minutes between
> each automatic saving of the file. Set to 0 to disable the auto-save
> feature."
>> This (and the name of the preference) would strongly suggest that the
> feature is supposed to, ahem, *save* the file in question, and not just toss
> up a reminder.
>> But, I'm sure I've misread things.
>>
>> David T.
>>
>> On October 1, 2026 8:50:27 PM GMT+05:30, David Carlson
> <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> iirc, auto save is only a reminder, not an action.  However, you
>>> should be able to import transactions entered after the last manual
>>> save using the replay logs feature.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 7:56C"B

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