Is missing trn:currency clause legal?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 23 10:23:23 EST 2010


Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> writes:

>> Agreed, it should be more vocal about failures!  In particular it should
>> at LEAST output something to gnucash.trace!
>
> It already announces the assertion failure in gnucash.trace. That's
> great for debugging, pretty useless for an ordinary user. The user
> needs to be told about this via the UI.

Yeah, that's true too.  Certain errors need to get propagated up to the
user.

>> Can you try to run a Check & Repair to see if it fixes the issue?
>
> I did and it did (with gnucash 2.2.9). It didn't take very long,
> either, and my xml file is over 20 Mb uncompressed. Perhaps you should
> consider automatically running Check & Repair after N restarts of
> gnucash, just as fsck is run after N clean reboots that mount an
> ext2/ext3 filesystem.

Not a bad idea.  Or perhaps it should get run prior to a Save-As?

> /Don

-derek

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