The modern MacOS is pretty amazing at preserving work in most apps now even if you have not saved to disk. I have shut down my computer with unsaved changes and they are still there when it reboots. And where I live power failures are common and I am not on a UPS (long story there). So even when the computer is killed by a power failure, when it comes back up I can see almost all the recent unsaved changes. I might lose a word or two if I am typing when the power goes off, but that is about it. It is pretty amazing to someone like me who remembers when pulling the plug on a computer meant you not only lost everything unsaved but you had to wait 15 or 20 minutes for the disk to recover after a power failure.
Will On 2020 Sep 10, at 09-10 17:12:09, Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> wrote: Interesting, I haven't experienced this (though I have experienced crashes, outages are handled by my UPS) but I am on an SSD, so maybe you are on to something. Regards, Adrien On 9/10/20 10:18 AM, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > At least on the Mac, there’s no guarantee that it is physically written to > disk immediately. I’ve experienced a handful of posted and printed invoices > disappearing due to a power outage. Probably less likely to happen on a > system with an SSD drive, as there’s not as much reason to wait to flush disk > buffers to disk. This would be an issue with the SQLite implementation, > likely not in GnuCash directly. >> >> Correct, this is "commiting" the transaction. At this stage it will only >> go into the in-memory cache of your data. It is not written to disk >> (unless you're using a SQL backend -- that's one of the two main >> differences between SQL and XML-File storage). >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
