Vanishing transactions and log file

[Ross Boylan]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 12:43 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 3. Can anyone think of any way the stock transactions would be
> deleted
> > without my manual intervention?
> 
> Nope.  It sounds like you saw them in another account, didn't realize
> what they were for, and deleted them there.  The only potential way
> gnucash would have self-destructed is if the transactions had the same
> GUIDs.
This might be an interaction with the problems mentioned below.  When I
saw multiple entries in the original (stock) account register I
definitely thought there was an error.  I may have deleted one of the
"duplicates," taking the whole transaction with it.

The "regular" transaction that I tried to enter at the same time also
had 2 entries in the same account (or at least it does in the log),
though it was not the account I was entering in.
> 
> > 4. Why is gnucash constantly retitling my splits, moving them around
> > vertically, and creating new splits?  I'm sure I had this problem
> with
> > the stock sales, and it may have been the same issue with the
> regular
> > transactions that misbehaved.
> 
> It all depends on how you enter them.  If you hit 'enter' then it
> causes the transaction to get partially committed, and scrubbed,
> and that will cause splits to get re-ordered.  Arguable this is a
> bug.
> 
> >               I suspect two problems.  First, with
> > autosplit, if you enter 2 splits that use the same account as the
> > register window you are in, the interface moves these around so that
> > they appear visually as 2 separate transactions.  
> 
> This isn't a bug.  Arguably it's a feature.  The best way to
> explain this is that an account register doesn't show transactions,
> it shows splits.  Now, GENERALLY you only have one split in
> an account, so the "transaction" appears only once.  But in the
> case of a stock sale with cap-gains, yes, you see it twice.
> There IS an open RFE for an option to "combine" multiple splits
> from one transaction into a single line in the register, but I
> suspect that wont happen anytime soon.
> 
> >         Second, the register
> > seems to insist that certain accounts appear as the first or last
> split.
> 
> It does order credits and debits.  It shouldn't care about the
> accounts.
>