[GNC] Autosave question

[Clint Chaplin]

One other possibility; the default setup on my windows installation was to
pop up a window when autosave was triggered to ask the user what to do.
One of the options was to save this time, one was to sautomagically save
all the time without asking, etc.  I still have it pop up.  If that option
is enabled, what happens when shut down?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:

> That sounds like your backend storage might be the cloud storage or you
> have very old drive that is not flushing cache before powering down.
> Assuming it is Intel pc, make sure BIOS settings for hard drive is set to
> AHCI mode and set it as removable or hot swappable drive type which should
> force it to flush cache upon power down command is sent to it.
>
> -----
> Excuse the typos. It's the mobile thingy!
>
>
>
> On October 2, 2026 6:59:05 PM scum buster <scumbuster at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin