[Kmymoney-devel] [kmymoney4] [Bug 340552] kmymoney crashes while attempting to save changes to local file

[Cristian Oneț]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340552

--- Comment #9 from Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Gilberto Caetano de Andrade from comment #8)
> (In reply to Cristian Oneț from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Gilberto Caetano de Andrade from comment #5)
> > > (In reply to allan from comment #4)
> > > > (In reply to Gilberto Caetano de Andrade from comment #3)
> > > > > It would be good add a cache version of kmy file, this way Kmymoney could
> > > > > recover my data not destroy all of them.
> > > > 
> > > > Would not autosave help in these circumstances?
> > > How? Kmymony destroy(empty completely) the kmy file file at the crash!
> > > 
> > > But if Kmymony had a cached version of my file ex.:
> > > .cache/kmymoney/[kmy user file]
> > > And we could help providing that file.
> > 
> > Did you know about the "Number of backups to keep (0=off)" option from the
> > "General" settings page?
> No! I used to read the manual[1] and do my work step by step. After the
> crash I've searched for something in the manual and didn't find anything
> about this option [2].

Jack: could you add a note to mention this to the user documentation TODO list?

> Where does it save these copies?

in the same directory as you kmymoney file. So for example "file.kmy" will have
"file.kmy~1" as a backup (or something similar) just like a text editor would
backup a text file after editing it.

> 
> Now I've activated it, so if the crash occur I will send the file.
> Regards
> 
> [1] https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/index.html
> [2]
> https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/details.settings.
> html#details.settings.general.global

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