Desktop computers still benefit from ups power both against outages and (hopefully) surges. Laptops already have a battery. These days many of us also depend on network and/or internet connections for data and backups. Makes life interesting when there are so many potential failure modes to consider.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 5:14 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> 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 > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
