HomeBank

Getting "... Conflicted Copy ..." of files

Asked by Rob D

I keep getting copies made of my files, even though they are saved properly and Homebank application is closed down properly. When I restart my machine and go to load my data again I see two files. One with the filename I have chose and the other mentioning the filename then in brackets "(computername's conflicted copy [DATE]".

Each time the conflicted copy version is a much larger file and contains my most recent transactions/entries (at least I hope it does).

When things like this happen, it knocks one's confidence in the program, which seems otherwise great. But the fear of data-loss is rising in me and my confidence is dropping that the program checks properly so it doesn't lose my data.

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Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) said : 		#1

Are you on windows ?
Can you share screenshot ?

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Rob D (drd) said : 		#2

HI Maxine,

I have HomeBank installed on both Windows and Ubuntu. I have a dual-boot machine.

I am happy to share a screenshot privately, but the filenames reference me, so probably not a good idea to do it publicly.

The main thing is that they show "conflicted copy" and produce a new file with that name, which is actually the last file that I worked on.

It could be something like file rights I guess, where the app goes to save the latest file (on app shutdown for instance) and sees that there is already a file with the name, so saves as "xxxx conflicted copy xxxx"

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Rob D (drd) said : 		#4

I still see this problem from time to time and think it might be to do with where I have my data stored.

Currently, my XHB files are in a Homebank folder under Dropbox, so it could be something to do with the Dropbox ssynchronisation.

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Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) said : 		#5

what is sure is that HomeBank do not create this file.

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