[Kmymoney-devel] Re: KMyMoney crashed and my data was lost

[Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin)]

Hi all,

Sorry, I didn't have enough backtrack information so I was not asking for a 
bugfix for this crash problem.  That's why I didn't include platform and kmm 
version information.

I'm using KMyMoney 4.5.1 running on KDE 4.5.2.  Both KMM and KDE were 
installed via Mandriva packages (hence running on Linux).  I was just 
customizing report when crash happened.

I didn't have a backup for my data.  Fortunately I just started to learn to 
use KMM and right now I used it only for recording my expenses.  All I lost 
was this month's detail expense record.  My loss is minor, but if it can let 
KMM have a better data backup and recovery scheme, that would be very great.
 
According to Alvaro's reply, data was saved in a temp file if I didn't hit 
save, which means that I shouldn't lost all my data while crashing, right?  
What I saw was that, after crashing, my kmy file size became 0.  I even didn't 
turn on auto saving.  How could that happen?

BTW, I didn't see the backup options in KMM configuration.  (Is "autosaving" 
the one?)  Could you please tell me where to set backup options?


Thanks,
Franklin


在 0099年 11月 24日 週三 09:34:36，Brendan Coupe 寫道:
> You should include details about which version of KMM you are running and
> your OS.
> 
> I've been running the cvs and svn version for several years so I have a
> cron job backup my file every day. You may want to do the same thing since
> losing all of your data can be pretty painful. Hopefully you had a fairly
> recent backup.
> 
> ----
> Brendan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin) <
> 
> franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Yesterday when I was trying to customize my report settings, the kmymoney
> > crashed and all my data in this file was lost (file size became 0).
> > 
> > I can not provide any useful backtrack informations for this problem
> > since I
> > didn't install debug packages.  What I want to say is that, maybe you can
> > consider to have a backup or swap file while editing, and provide a data
> > recovery scheme when the application was not closed properly.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Franklin
> > 
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