gnucash crashes on open due to missing custom report

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com>:

> This isn't documented any where that I could find and gnucash just
> "dies" with no indication of why.  It wasn't until I restored a backup
> and it wouldn't open either yet other gnucash data files would, that I
> found the state files and then looking at one that listed more than
> just the Accounts window open did I begin to suspect what was
> happening.  I am a developer and I suspect that the average end user
> would not be able to correct this on their own.   As for manually
> editing the saved-reports file, it would be better if users didn't
> have to manually edit them but since they are required to do just
> that, the saved-reports file should be treated more cautiously than it
> is.
>
> I'm not trying to be combative here -- I'm trying to help out by
> giving feedback from a new user perspective -- something that quickly
> vanishes.   A new user will most likely try a number of things with
> custom reports as a part of their learning process.  I had made a
> number of throw away reports while documenting
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507671 , it was these
> reports that I was trying to clean out.   I suspect most new users
> would create more than a couple useless custom reports as they learn
> gnucash.  The custom reports UI is no where close to the level of the
> rest of gnucash.

Sure, it would be better if there were a way to remove a Custom Report
from the UI, and an RFE for THAT (or better yet, a patch that implements
it!) would be fine.

But any user that goes and modifies state files, regardless of their
development knowledge, is at risk of corrupting their data or the
system as a whole.

> -jeff

-derek

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