Tried that with GnuCash? It isn't a macOS native app and probably doesn't benefit from those features. I'd go for the UPS, but since recent financial activity is generally pretty easy to recover and re-enter maybe the risk/payback works out differently for you.
Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 10, 2020, at 4:01 PM, w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > > 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 > <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. _______________________________________________ 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.
