Update bug?

[Donald Allen]

On 3/2/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> hi,
>
> Please update to 2.0.5 and test that before filing a bug report.

Ok -- I'll hold off until 2.0.5 becomes the Gentoo stable version (one
of you -- Josh? -- said it will be soon, I believe) and try it then.

/Don

>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>:
>
> > Yesterday, I was running gnucash (2.0.1), I had the Accounts window
> > displayed, with net worth at the bottom of the window. I then ran 'Get
> > Quotes' from the Price Editor and noticed that the net worth number
> > didn't change. My prices were pretty stale prior to doing this, and
> > certainly didn't include the market meltdown earlier this week. It's
> > pretty clear that the net worth number was not updated. I happened to
> > have an investment report window open, so I reloaded it and sure
> > enough, prices changed all over the place, as I expected. Still no
> > change in net worth. On a hunch, I edited the price of a holding that
> > I have for which quotes are not available online. When I set it to
> > zero, the net worth number changed significantly. I then restored it
> > to its original setting, and the net worth changed to something other
> > than what it was when I began this exercise  -- a little lower, as I
> > would expect as a result of the market drop this week (my beta to the
> > market is pretty small, so I'm happy to report that I wasn't hurt
> > badly by the market action this week).
> >
> > So it looks like 'Get quotes' is forgetting to update some things. I
> > did search the bug database and couldn't find anything like this. Does
> > this ring a bell for any of the developers (perhaps the bug is there
> > and my search didn't find it)? If not, I'll enter a bug report.
> >
> > /Don
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