split delete funny stuff

[Derek Atkins]

brad <bradhaack at yahoo.com> writes:

> I was cleaning up some imbalance splits.  They had 0 amounts.  I was in
> the Imbalance account & hit the delete button thinking that I was just
> deleting that split of the transaction.  WRONG.  It deleted the whole
> transaction.   
>
> Maybe or was being dumb or maybe this is a confusing piece of the
> interface, but what does seem wrong is that 1 split of each the
> transactions (there were quite a few of them) was reconciled & I got no
> warning that I was deleting a reconciled transaction.   Is this
> expected?

It depends.  It SHOULD warn you, but it's possible you clicked on the
'never show this warning again' last time.

> This was midway in a several hour session getting caught up.  I have
> several backup files from this morning, so I went back found the last
> good backup file.   The odd thing is that when I replay the backup files
> I don't get the transaction deletes??  This is good, but why?   I'm
> missing a few other things too, but the good omissions are greater than
> the bad omissions.  
>
> My thought was that I could go back & replay the log files from this
> morning & skip the one with the errors.  Is this how it's sposed to
> work?

My personal stance is that you should never replay the log files.  They
are useful to kinda tell you what you might have done but the logs are
incomplete and the log replay is tenable at best.

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-derek

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