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Bug 383305 - Should prompt for possible log replays
Should prompt for possible log replays
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Import - Other
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Christian Stimming
Christian Stimming
Depends on: 621075 621079
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-07 10:00 UTC by Dominic Hargreaves
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:18 UTC
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Description Dominic Hargreaves 2006-12-07 10:00:51 UTC 
When starting up, gnucash could look for .log files that are more recent than the main gnucash file. The presence of such files would indicate that unsaved work was lost in a crash (or just that the user deliberately quit without saving changes, if there is no stale lock present too). It would then list the files with times, and offer to replay them if the user chooses.

I suspect that much recoverable work has been lost simply because people didn't know about the log file facility in gnucash; I only recently discovered it myself.
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2006-12-07 15:20:56 UTC 
Interesting suggestion. I'm afraid nobody is working on that at the moment, but maybe it isn't too difficult to implement.
Comment 2 Geert Janssens 2010-06-09 10:30:05 UTC 
An interesting suggestion indeed. But with the current state of the log replay functionality, I wouldn't like an unsuspecting user to use it.

The log and log replay features haven't been kept up to date and when used together with a datafile that holds business objects, you risk ending up with an inconsistent data file.

So IMHO this request should only be implemented after bug #621075 and bug #621079 are implemented.
Comment 3 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:18:11 UTC 
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