https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160715

--- Comment #10 from Chris Good <[email protected]> ---
Hi Robert,

I am very careful to save any changes to forms/macros/tables, then also save
the database, very regularly.

Thanks for you comment about using a macro to save the file automatically. I
hadn't really thought about that much yet.

I do often save, close, then manually copy the .odb to a cloud backed up
folder, then date and time stamp the filename.

I have found some good info in
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-automatically-save-a-database/46905)
which also refers to
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Handbook
(Chapter 9 Macros → Securing you database)

I have recently changed from an embedded database to an external HSQL 1.8 DB
using  Villeroy's Python macro
(https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=86071), because I
need to separate the data from the code so I can provide support for my system
to some-one else.
I decided to stay with external HSQLDB 1.8 for the moment instead of go to
FireBird because of the problems with dates and also becuase Firebird does not
support SPACE() which I use to simulate multi column comboboxes.

I shall ponder further.
I will probably end up modifying my java backup utility
(https://github.com/goodvibes2/BackupGnuCashWin) which automates backing up
multiple files to an encrypted datetime stamped file in a cloud folder using
7-Zip, to also handle my Base app.

I'm also going to turn on Tools,Options,Load/Save - General,
"Mark Save AutoRecovery information every 10 minutes" but I guess this won't
help with this date format problem which presumably will be fixed now that my
data is in an external database.

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