changes not being saved.

[Jack]

On 2018.06.06 16:15, Joe Harrington wrote:
> I am running version 5.0.1 on kbuntu.
> 
> I am in the midst of converting a very large (28 years Quicken),  
> transferring data one account at a time.
> 
> I just realized for the past couple of weeks, changes are not being  
> saved. I have set auto-save for 10 minutes, occasionally do a  
> file>save and always save when closing the file. Every time this week  
> that I open the program I get an identical file (see the directory  
> below). The current file 'joe.kmy' was copied from the .8~ backup  
> which appeared to be the newest file that was different in a effort  
> to see if that freed anything up. But you can see that after  
> importing an account and closing it is the same as the .9~ backup.  
> Permissions look to me like they are set correctly for saving the  
> file.  (the gap from May 25 to June 5 was when I was on vacation and  
> did no updating)
> 
> Any suggestions as to what is wrong?
> 
> -----
> 
> total 107880
> -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root   245360 Apr  3 21:09 Cat List.pdf
> -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root    35737 Apr 24 16:06 CK-Delta.txt
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2231123 May 23 14:27 joe.kmy
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 Jun  6 13:16 joe.kmy.1~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 Jun  6 13:13 joe.kmy.2~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 Jun  6 13:02 joe.kmy.3~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 Jun  5 22:47 joe.kmy.4~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 Jun  5 16:50 joe.kmy.5~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 Jun  5 15:22 joe.kmy.6~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 May 25 09:32 joe.kmy.7~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2231123 May 23 12:02 joe.kmy.9~
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 joe  joe   2179322 May 23 14:29 joe.old.kmy
> 
No idea what's wrong, but you might try doing a Save As to a different  
file name.  In particular, when you first do that - look at what  
directory it offers to save the file in.  Then look in that directory  
to see if it has actually been saving stuff, but just not where you  
expected.  No, I don't think this is actually what happened, but it's  
easy enough to check, just in case.

One question - where is the .8 file?  Even if you directly opened it or  
made a copy and opened that, it shouldn't have been deleted.  Second  
question, the current and .9 files are larger than the later backups.   
That doesn't make sense if you have only been adding data.

Also, it might be worth trying a few tests only adding one or two  
transactions between saves (maybe even creating a test kmy file with  
phony data just for testing.)

Jack