[GNC] Autosave question
scum buster
scumbuster at comcast.net
Sat Oct 3 18:37:17 EDT 2026
It has NEVER prompted me to save.......I have that popup turned off in
the setting. I have the "autosave" option checked.
On 10/2/2026 8:41 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>
> If it pops up and you don’t take any action to save then all those
> transactions accumulated since last save will stay pending to be
> saved; you’ll have to click on File àSave to persist them on to the
> disk at your choosing. This would be also the case for when it is
> shutting down because the shutdown process will kill the process
> without saving. If you are automagically looking for the system to
> press yes for that prompt when you asked for it to prompt you then it
> is not going to do it for you. That dialogue is for you to take the
> action; not for the system.
>
> Understand the ramifications of not setting up to automatically save
> and have it prompt to you for saving it very thoroughly. While option
> is there to prompt for save, it makes little sense in normal use case
> by a laymen to not automatically save all the time at certain interval
> rather than prompt for it.
>
> Knowing how GNC behaves, when you said “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.” that is likely that the setting you
> select during that pop up it is only good going forward for that
> session of the GNC run and not saved persistently to the disk. Once
> you exit and relaunch, it will re-read setting from the disk and
> return back to prompting unless you go into Edit àPreferences àGeneral
> and setup auto-save settings. If you uncheck ‘Show auto-save
> confirmation question’ in there, it will always save at that interval
> without prompting (auto save does **not** overwrite existing file; it
> creates a new file with a timestamp in the name of the file). Right
> underneath is also setting to timeout display of that “save now”
> pop-up so if you do not act within that allotted prompt time and
> system ends up dismissing it due to time out then it won’t save and
> all changes accumulated since last save will be pending to be saved as
> well.
>
> HTH.
>
> *From:*Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 02, 2026 8:05 PM
> *To:* Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> *Cc:* scum buster <scumbuster at comcast.net>; Robert Heller
> <heller at deepsoft.com>; David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>;
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Autosave question
>
> 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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