[moneydance] Does anyone else have a problem with this user interface behavior?

[Edward A. Melia, C.P.A./Attorney]

Stan,

I have not seen that pop up message "the backup file is newer" in a 
long time.  What version of MD are you running?

Under Preferences, what do you have checked on the Backup tab?  I 
have 1) Make a backup every time you save and 2) Perform auto save 
every 2 minutes.

I attempted to open MD while MD was already open.  The computer took 
me to the already open program; it did not open a 2nd copy.

   Ed Melia, Sacramento, CA


At 10:21 AM 4/9/2008, you wrote:


>Another place I've seen this sort of thing, being unable to simply back out
>of something as if it had never happened, has to do with launching the
>program.
>
>I tried to reproduce this situation just now and was unable to do so, so
>maybe it's been fixed, but I'm also just a little fuzzy on how I end up
>here...
>
>I think it happens when I open Moneydance by mistake when it's already
>open.  As I say, when I tried to do it just now, it simply replaced the
>open instance of MD with a new one, re-opening the MD file (also, by the
>way, discarding the changes I had made in the first instance).
>
>Somehow, other times, I've ended up with a popup message warning me that
>the backup file is newer than the one I'm trying to open.  Now, I'm not a
>computer idiot (really, I'm not), but time and time again, I've studied
>this message trying to figure out the right thing to do.  What I *want* to
>do is go back in time and not do what made this message pop up --
>typically, this would be handled with some sort of "Cancel" option -- and
>leave all the data intact.  Invariably, no matter how much I try to figure
>out what to click on, it's the wrong thing, and I end up losing all the
>entries I've just made.
>
>It's a bad enough result that I typically Alt-Tab (yes, this is Windows)
>away from the whole mess, make copies of all the MD data files, answer the
>question (probably wrong), and then go through opening the data files to
>find the one that has the entries I've just made.
>
>But, as I say, I can't make it happen right now, so maybe this has been
>fixed (although it's disconcerting that the open file with "dirty" records
>is simply replaced with a fresh copy of what's already been saved).
>
>OK, stranger still...
>
>Open, make changes, open (changes seem to be lost), close, open, the
>changes are there after all.
>   <but>
>Open, make changes, open (changes seem to be lost), make changes, close,
>the latest changes are retained.
>
>But I still can't get that popup message to appear...
>
>Stan
>
>
>On 4/9/2008 at 5:27 PM Anthony Bayer wrote:
>
> >It bugs me too.
> >
> >  I think the third option would be great, with the window returning
> >to where it was, and the cursor in the last field where something was
> >completed.
> >
> >Anthony
>
>
>
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