[moneydance] Oh, there it is...

[Edward Reid]

At 00:00 04/16/08 -0500, Stan wrote:
>I looked in the taskbar to find Moneydance, but didn't see it there.

I don't know the internal details, but I know that if an application does 
not respond at a critical time, it can be missing from the taskbar. 
(Eudora, for example, will disappear at certain points while checking 
mail.) This is particularly obvious when using alt-tab, or if like me you 
leave the taskbar on auto-hide. I don't know how this appears if the 
taskbar is always visible.

>Your autosave file is newer than your data file.
>Would you like to use the autosave instead?
>[Yes] [No]

Clearly for some reason it isn't being locked out of multiple executions. 
For native Windows applications, there's an option for this -- I can't 
remember if it's in the .exe file properties or if it has to be done with a 
call by the application itself. But in this case Java also comes into play, 
and I don't know how this plays with Java.

Selfishly, I'm too tired to experiment now.

>What I *want* is to unclick the icon that started this program a second
>time.  A "Cancel" button would do wonders for my comfort level right now.

It would be perfectly standard user interface it include a Quit button at 
this point (which I think would be much clearer than Cancel).

MD2007 did not save on exit if the exit was caused by a shut down or 
reboot. I have not determined whether this is fixed in MD2008. I think this 
caused most of the cases I've seen where the newer file didn't meet my 
expectations.

Also, MD2007 did not do backups (which are distinct from auto-save) when a 
transaction was open. If you started to edit a transaction and then said 
forget it but didn't cancel out of it, you wouldn't get the backups. Again, 
I have not determined whether this is fixed in MD2008 (nor whether the 
problem of infinity=5 is fixed).

Edward
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