First, I would like to say that when I was referring to clicking the "x" it was for GNUCash, which the brings up the dialog for "Save/Close without Saving/Cancel". However, if I click the cancel button it "crashes" as well. Also, even if I click the Save, it does the same thing. All instances "crash" GNUCash and any entries not saved since the last automatic save are lost. I also feel it has nothing to do with OneDrive as it worked fine until this last problem.
Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email ________________________________ From: D. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 1:46 PM To: David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> Cc: Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com>; D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash David, That's off topic. And I don't use OneDrive. Better to start a different topic. David T. ________________________________ From: David Carlson Sent: Tue Jan 18 13:42:16 EST 2022 To: "D." Cc: Gyle McCollam , "D. via gnucash-user" Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash David T, Is One Drive able to hide all the file system lags that it introduces from programs like GnuCash? If so, I need to consider using it. That is why I am asking for more comments here. On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 12:11 PM D. < sunfis...@yahoo.com<mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>> wrote: David, What Gyle is describing has nothing to do with OneDrive. Gnucash shouldn't exit the program when he closes the "Save/Close without Saving/Cancel" dialog box by clicking the "X" for the dialog-- and it sure shouldn't leave the lock file in place when it does so. That the lock file still exists supports the idea of a crash. Gyle: what happens if you click Cancel? David T. ________________________________ From: David Carlson Sent: Tue Jan 18 12:01:53 EST 2022 To: Gyle McCollam Cc: " gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>" Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash That is an issue with the way you have your file system organized, but it is not necessarily bad or wrong, just an artifact, I think. I do not use OneDrive or equivalent yet myself because I have not decided how to manage that very issue of the lag while background updates are happening to my data file storage system. You are getting that lock warning because your OneDrive has not caught up with you yet. If you open anyway, you are burdening the OneDrive with more work to keep the data intact, and I do not know if it can handle that, thus I do not try it. Perhaps other users of that type of arrangement can give us their experience.That is probably also the cause of the Save Changes warning. That may actually lose your recent work just as warned. Again, perhaps others have experience with OneDrive. On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:38 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@live.com>> wrote: David, Hopefully I can clarify what is happening. I did not abandon an edit. I finished an entry, but clicked on the "x" to shutdown before saving. Included is a screenshot of a test entry that was completed (see last line). Then, I clicked on the "x" to shutdown and the dialogue popped up. I seem to remember that "cancel" brought you back into GNUCash and "save" atctually save the current state of the file. Now, it doesn't matter which option I choose it, I think it crashes GNUCash. Then on the next startup it tells me: I select "Open Anyway" and the test entry is gone. I hope this make it more clear. Thank You, *Gyle McCollam* Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@live.com> < gmccol...@gyleshomes.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com>> email ________________________________ *From:* David Carlson < david.carlson....@gmail.com<mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com>> *Sent:* Monday, January 17, 2022 8:46 PM *To:* Gyle McCollam < gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@live.com>> *Cc:* gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> < gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Exiting GNUCash It is not clear what you think happened. It seems that more than one thing did not transpire as you expected, since abandoning an edit, the presumed cause of the shutdown without saving warning, and the attempt to open a file already in use are different events. Then how did you ascertain that, in fact, GnuCash did not save. What, exactly did it not save? Did you allow sufficient time for GnuCash to actually complete the entire shutdown? Sometimes it takes a really long time to shut down. For example, when Linux decides to put some of GnuCash's virtual RAM onto hard drive swap space, it may take over a minute for the OS to recover and close the open file. On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 6:04 PM Gyle McCollam < gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@live.com>> wrote: I usually don't forget to save first so I don't know how long this has been happening. Today I didn't save, so when the dialogue box came up, I selected "cancel". GNUCash shutdown without saving and when I tried to open it thought there was another instance running, but I said open anyway. I tested this again with the same result. Then I tried it again, this time telling the system to save. It shut down again, but it did not save! I got the same message about the file already in use. Has anyone else encounter this error? I am using Win11 and GNUCash 4.9. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@live.com><mailto: gmccol...@gyleshomes.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com>> email ________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto: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. 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