I am using 2.39 on debian 3.16 and am pretty happy with it, but, I've noticed that quite a few books that I entered are not in the DB anymore and I don't know why that is. At first, I thought that I had mis-remembered, but I looked at an exported file (from tellico) from a few weeks back and the missing items are in that exported file.

Under what circumstances (if any known) would tellico lose data? I was pretty careful about performing a save after each entry to make sure that I didn't lose anything.

The system was powered off once, I'm sure, while tellico was still running, but I was under the impression that the most that would be lost (could be lost) would be anything entered after the last save, which in that case was zero.

Is there anything that I need to look at or can do to help trouble shoot these disturbing losses?

Fortunately, I was able to restore the tellico DB file (.tc) from a week old backup. It is about 80KB bigger and has the missing books in it.

If this is of any help, I run Unix and so I had tended to just leave tellico running all the time. I had definitely done a save after entering all those books. Is there any known problem with leaving tellico running constantly? I couldn't find any kind of auto-save in tellico, so I think that the only way tellico writes to the DB file is when I click on the [save] button. Is this true? If so, then I don't understand how those records could have been lost. Also, I did not delete the 50 entries by accident.

QHZSFPZep8C wrote:Fortunately, I was able to restore the tellico DB file (.tc) from a week old backup. It is about 80KB bigger and has the missing books in it.

If this is of any help, I run Unix and so I had tended to just leave tellico running all the time. I had definitely done a save after entering all those books. Is there any known problem with leaving tellico running constantly? I couldn't find any kind of auto-save in tellico, so I think that the only way tellico writes to the DB file is when I click on the [save] button. Is this true? If so, then I don't understand how those records could have been lost. Also, I did not delete the 50 entries by accident.

Honestly, I'm not sure how Tellico could have removed those entries. I don't know of any problems in that area. And you're correct - there's no auto-save. The file is only written to when you save it.

I'm glad you were able to recover from the old backup file.