[moneydance] data file corruption

[Ben Northway]

I am also running a Mac (Macbook 2 gHz Core Duo) with a very full  
disk (95%). I am running build 565 and haven't experienced these  
issues. My auto saves are set daily and every 5 minutes, keeping 5  
backups.

FWIW, if anyone is not making regular backups of their machine, there  
is no reason not to. My webhost (dreamhost.com) provides a couple  
hundred gigabytes of storage and I have a firewire disk. I backup  
both to my webhost with an rsync script at night. Literally two  
clicks, and I don't have to worry (as much) about this kind of  
corruption issue. If anyone would like a copy of my script, I'd be  
happy to post it.

Regards,

Ben Northway



On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Doug B wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 00:49, Gordon Alley wrote:
>> I just wanted to relate this incident to the list in case it's not
>> just me.
>>
>> I'm using Moneydance 2007 build 566 on an iMac G4 800 with 1GB RAM
>> and 6.5 GB of free space on my 60 GB internal drive.
>>
>
> This may not mean anything, but it looks like your disk is almost 90%
> full.  I don't know anything about macs and how they work, but I've
> seen problems occur when a disk gets this full.  Some programs use a
> lot of temp files.  Get several apps going at one time and you can eat
> a lot of disk space with temps.  Could be the disk was near full when
> it tried to autosave causing a corrupt file.  A full disk can cause a
> program or even the os to quit responding or behave oddly.  Just a
> thought.
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