OFX import and cancel

[David Reiser]

On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Graham Leggett wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have picked up some strange behaviour with the OFX import code.
>
> If you select an OFX file to import, the "generic import transaction  
> manager" appears.
>
> If at this point you click "cancel" to bail out of the import  
> process, the window closes and everything looks fine - until you try  
> to add a further transaction to the account.
>
> At this point, all the transactions that would have been touched by  
> the OFX import suddenly display themselves as unbalanced (square-in- 
> a-box), as the splits have all lost their accounts.
>
> To fix this, you have to reload your xac file from a backup.
>
> If you click on "OK" on the generic import transaction manager, it  
> works fine.
>
> Has anyone else seen this before?
>
> Regards,
> Graham

Yes. I'm fairly sure there's a bug filed on it.

But, have you tried just closing your gnucash file and reopening it  
without trying to find a backup? (Maybe even saving what looks to be a  
corrupt file, closing, and then reopening).

Something about the transaction matcher isn't communicating the true  
state of the file to the register display code. But in my experience,  
the file itself isn't corrupt. Sometimes, if you try editing one of  
the transactions that should have disappeared, gnucash will crash. But  
I can't make it happen every time.

Dave
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David Reiser
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