[GNC] Autosave question

Fri Oct 9 11:05:29 EDT 2026

I'm probably gonna say a huge nonsense, but if you [ask your computer guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuUU7PUQeKY) on Youtube, he has a video with a registry hack to prevent automatic updates. It's worked for me so far.

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Em 09/10/2026 às 15:54, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> escreveu:

> If you make your internet connection metered, that might stop Microsoft
> doing updates.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM scum buster via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> I have been using a computer for home and work apps for probably about
>> 40 years now -- I know the best practices.....but sometimes life gets in
>> the way and an app stays open while I step away and get sidetracked
>> etc....disconnecting it every time from the network isnt gonna
>> happen.....honestly, I also have no idea why MS keeps "updating" when
>> they clesarly said "you PC is no longer going to recieve updates"...but
>> thats a different gripe for a different day. LOL
>>
>> I do NOT have the "prompt me" box checked as I said but DO have the
>> "autosave" feature turned on. Attached a screenshot of that.
>>
>> The error only happens when I inadvertently do not manually save and
>> leave the app running when Microsoft does an unanticipated forced update
>> so it is random.....will post again next time it happens.
>>
>> Thanks for the input all
>>
>> D
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/4/2026 10:01 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>> >
>> > Attach a screen grab of your current settings (along with type and
>> > version of the OS, and version of gnc) for auto save as that seems to
>> > be incorrectly set. This will allow folks here to weigh in.
>> >
>> > From what you are saying, it seems like you have done the opposite of
>> > what is required to auto-save.
>> >
>> > The main pertinent setting I can see (others can keep me honest here)
>> > is “Show auto-save confirmation question.” and if you “checked” that
>> > then it is doing exactly as it says – its prompting you to save; not
>> > automagically save. Secondary important settings for auto-save are the
>> > “Auto-save time interval” which should be set reasonable (I keep it at
>> > 5 mins) and “Retain log/backup files” which should be set reasonable
>> > as well (I keep it at 10 days) but this will consume more disk space.
>> > None of these time intervals should be less than one if you want them
>> > to be effective.
>> >
>> > If you have checked “Enable timeout on ‘Save changes on exit’
>> > question” set to value greater than 1 then it is waiting that many
>> > seconds with a prompt when quitting the program (which is what Windows
>> > reboot will do – graceful shutdown of the application before killing
>> > the process) before it will exit **without** saving if you don’t
>> > respond within that time period. This is what your system seems to be
>> > configured for doing.
>> >
>> > Also if you know that M$ is installing updates in the background
>> > without your knowledge, you can either run the computer off the
>> > network (by pulling the cord out from the network card) and prevent
>> > that or why leave any application open and running without saving
>> > anything when you know that for fact? I get that some of the
>> > commercial apps (such as M$ Office) have ability to pick up from where
>> > you left off after reboot but that is not true of the entire universe
>> > of apps. You are looking to invite trouble if you are doing that as it
>> > is not the best practice to leave any app open with data files still
>> > in use.
>> >
>> > *From:*scum buster <scumbuster at comcast.net>
>> > *Sent:* Saturday, October 03, 2026 6:37 PM
>> > *To:* Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>; 'Clint Chaplin'
>> > <joatmon at gmail.com>
>> > *Cc:* 'Robert Heller' <heller at deepsoft.com>; 'David T.'
>> > <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Autosave question
>> >
>> > 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> <mailto:joatmon at gmail.com>
>> > *Sent:* Friday, October 02, 2026 8:05 PM
>> > *To:* Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
>> > <mailto:kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
>> > *Cc:* scum buster <scumbuster at comcast.net>
>> > <mailto:scumbuster at comcast.net>; Robert Heller
>> > <heller at deepsoft.com> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>; David T.
>> > <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> <mailto: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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