Phantom bill

[Wouter van Marle]

Sorry call me a 'luser' but I follow the adagio "if nothing else works,
read the manual". So that's also this case; and I wouldn't be surprised
if other users also have run into the same problem.

Any suggestions on how to clear this up?

That my turnover increases by some EUR 13k I don't worry about too much,
worse is that now my profit is understated by this same amount. And that
my vendor's report doesn't give the correct total that I owe them.

Wouter.


On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 22:05 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> On Thu, August 19, 2010 9:46 pm, Wouter van Marle wrote:
> >
> >> > Now the question is of course how can I get rid of that phantom bill?
> >> > And, primarily, it's linked transaction?
> >>
> >> You cannot replay the logs of business transactions.  It will completely
> >> destroy your data file.
> >
> > Great that the "replay log" function is so forthcoming with that
> > information.... I call this a very serious bug.
> 
> It most certainly is forthcoming.  It's been in the documentation since
> docs version 1.8!  Quoting from there:
> 
> Note
> 
> Warning: Changes to the scheduled transactions, invoices of bills
> themselves are NOT recovered, and their transactions that were recovered
> may not be properly associated with them, and should thus be
> double-checked. Especially for business transactions, you may have to
> delete and re-create some of them. If you do not, although the balance
> will be correct, some reports may not.
> 
> 
> You may consider it a bug, but the Log Replay is, frankly, a hack.  It
> doesn't handle changes to accounts either!  The ONLY thing it replays are
> transactions.  That's all it's ever tried to do...
> 
> I'm sorry you were bitten by an issue that's been known about and clearly
> documented for 8 years.  The fix will be a switch to SQL because then
> logfiles are obsolete.
> 
> >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> 
> -derek
> 
> 
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