[moneydance] current balance is old?

[Edward Reid]

At 19:51 02/16/08 -0800, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
>So, if you are leaving the program running for days and you do not Save
>before you stop using the program, you are not at risk of a corrupted
>file, but you ARE at the risk of losing the data you just entered.

Unless you set the autosave option, which I've found works well in MD. 
Autosave is a second-class cousin to real database technology (which also 
solves the problems of inconsistency), but for MD's purposes I haven't seen 
any real difference.

>If you always remember to save before sliding the program aside, though,
>I can't see any risk to leaving the program running.  Though, to be
>honest, I also don't see any benefit, either.  Moneydance has always
>started up rather quickly for me.

Partly, yes, it starts up too slowly for me. Though if I haven't used it in 
a day or two, the time to page in everything that's been paged out may be 
longer than the startup time. But I can blame that on Windows instead of on 
MD. '=_

Partly I'm just in the habit of leaving things running unless there's a 
darned good reason to quit them. If a program can't handle that, it's a 
strong consideration for rejecting the program entirely. Making sure open 
files are consistent is just programming; if you can't do it then don't 
write software for other people. As you point out, MD deals with this.

The last thing I did with Quicken was attempt to convert from Mac to Win. 
After the agonizing QIF transfer (in which Q couldn't read its own files as 
well as MD could), I tried to put my laptop to sleep ... and got a message 
that Q wouldn't let it! "Quicken does not support sleep mode." Lame with a 
capital L.

Edward
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