save bug

[Rick Ziegler]

Hi Sebastien!

That sounds eerily similar to 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110606

Thanks for reporting it.

I always save thrice, and verify at two of the three files are the same 
size.
( I was once burned when GnuCash saved the exact same number of bytes, 
in two corrupt files.  The odds boggle the mind. )

Good luck with it-

Sebastien Millet wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I need help with a strange bug in GnuCash 1.8.5 when the file is saved
>(bug is also present in 1.8.4).
>I haven't upgraded to 1.8.7 yet (7mb download with a 56kbps modem, what
>about releasing patches ?), but i saw nothing refering to this bug
>in the changelogs.
>
>Sometimes, when i save the file (via the "Save" icon of the main
>window), the created file is truncated at 80KB (81920 bytes, no more, no
>less), and since the file normally has a size of about 100KB, i lose
>every operation made since January 2003, quite frustrating.
>GnuCash don't display any error message when it happens.
>
>When it happens I load the last backup, enter the missing operations
>again and save as the main file. I never have been able to use "replay
>log" function, it does nothing after selecting the log file.
>
>More problematic, sometimes the backup file is also truncated at 80KB,
>so i am obliged to load an older backup and re-enter more operations.
>
>For example, here is the current file :
>81920 sep 16 18:52 GnuCash
>
>And the automatic backups I cutrently have :
>95715 aoû 19 22:23 GnuCash.20030819222329.xac
>95865 aoû 20 05:46 GnuCash.20030820054620.xac
>96006 aoû 21 01:46 GnuCash.20030821014657.xac
>96179 aoû 21 20:12 GnuCash.20030821201208.xac
>96470 aoû 21 22:28 GnuCash.20030821222858.xac
>81920 aoû 22 19:40 GnuCash.20030822194043.xac
>81920 aoû 22 19:56 GnuCash.20030822195635.xac
>81920 aoû 23 00:23 GnuCash.20030823002342.xac
>96461 aoû 23 00:30 GnuCash.20030823003054.xac
>96894 aoû 25 23:49 GnuCash.20030825234915.xac
>97079 aoû 26 00:13 GnuCash.20030826001334.xac
>97222 aoû 31 00:02 GnuCash.20030831000216.xac
>97509 aoû 31 00:53 GnuCash.20030831005354.xac
>99679 sep 5 15:01 GnuCash.20030905150144.xac
>101624 sep 6 23:58 GnuCash.20030906235857.xac
>101651 sep 8 16:13 GnuCash.20030908161314.xac
>101877 sep 12 17:13 GnuCash.20030912171338.xac
>102215 sep 12 19:47 GnuCash.20030912194728.xac
>102335 sep 15 05:39 GnuCash.20030915053914.xac
>102488 sep 16 18:17 GnuCash.20030916181730.xac
>102545 sep 16 18:39 GnuCash.20030916183940.xac
>81920 sep 16 18:43 GnuCash.20030916184333.xac
>81920 sep 16 18:52 GnuCash.20030916185222.xac
>
>Notice the last two are corrupted, so are some older ones.
>
>The files are stored on an ext2 partition shared from another computer
>with Samba and mounted with umask 077, so its like an FAT partition with
>chmod 700 on all files. I never had any problem with other apps, same
>share contains all my OpenOffice files, a few images, etc.
>And yes, there is enough space left, about 3GB.
>
>I did not successfully reproduced the bug on a local ext2 partition, but
>i've done only a few tests and bugs are always showing when we don't
>expect so :-)
>
>At this moment, if i open backup 20030916183940 (the last good) and do
>nothing but save as "GnuCash", my main file name, the file is truncated
>at 80KB.
>
>After 3 "save as" (for this time, sometimes it takes less, sometimes
>more), it successfully creates a 100KB file.
>
>I think it's a critical bug, because if i don't care the file is not
>truncated at 80KB before closing GnuCash, i lose everything from the 8
>last monthes, and i don't have all the data available elsewhere.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
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