changes not being saved.

[Joe Harrington]

Thanks Jack, I'll try those test procedures.  I don't think it's saving 
them somewhere else because it increments the backup each time.

as to the .8~ file. I may have done that wrong. I changed the name of 
the main file from joe.kmy to joe.old.kmy and then renamed the .8~ file 
by taking off the last part, making it joe.kmy


Conversion from Quicken has been a trial. I am about ready to start over 
at 1/1/18 but I'm afraid of Quicken. I still have to periodically verify 
my quicken.com password online and afraid that they will eventually 
invalidate everything not under their new subscription plan. I want to 
have access to all my data.



On 6/6/2018 4:37 PM, Jack wrote:
> 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