On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 09:25, David T. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the > save process. Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it > possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving?
I think it should not be possible to shutdown after clicking Save but before it has finished saving. If that is possible then that suggests a bug. That possibility would appear to fit many of the facts the however. Colin > > David T. > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 14:23, Michael Hendry > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8 Feb 2019, at 08:38, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On a Mac is it possible to open a second instance of GC while one is > > still running? > > Yes, but opening the second instance brings up the lock file warning, and > this is the first time I’ve seen that warning in many weeks. > > It usually happens after a power cut, or when I’ve had to power down the > computer without an orderly shutdown. > > > If so another possibility is that you did not save and > > close the first instance so it was still open when you started GC > > again? > > …so I don’t think that’s the problem. > > > > Then you would get the lock message and would find that the > > reconcile had not been saved. On the other hand the original one > > would still have been lying around, so I would have thought you would > > have noticed that at some point. > > > > Colin > > What was unusual about the work that preceded this incident was that I > clicked “Save” and then promptly shut Gnucash down - I usually find that when > I come to quit Gnucash the “Save” button is already greyed, indicating that > an auto-save has already taken place. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
