Of course you could do a File > Save just before embarking upon some more risky activity such as a OFX import or after downloading security prices...
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM john <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 15, 2022, at 11:10 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > As 4.9 does abort ungracefully from time to time, I grow weary of > reentering my unsaved transactions. I suggest that you post them to a new > sort of log file as I go, so I do not have to save megabytes of almost > duplicate files so often to avoid this. Of course, if I leave the cursor > on a modified line, I still might lose that line, unless you can log that > along with its state when I change tabs. (Maybe I should be warned when I > change tabs that I left an uncommitted transaction, not later when I > save?) When the app starts, it can check the file and replay. When there > is a save and the normal files are closed or flushed to disk, the new log > file can be truncated. It'd be very much like an RDBMS log. And perhaps a > way to allow us to save less often? > > We do, that's what the *.log files in the same directory as your data file > are. Note, though, that they log only transactions and their splits. > Nothing else, especially not the business stuff, is logged. > > > To re-enter them use File>Import>Replay GnuCash Log File. > > You could enable auto-save in preferences, but when that runs it blocks > the UI so it can be a bit tedious if you have a large file. You might also > consider the SQLite3 backend that writes the database immediately when you > complete a transaction, at the expense of not making a backup file and not > being able to quit without saving if you decide you've made a mess of a > session. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
