split delete funny stuff

[brad]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:43 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

For an unreconciled trans, it says 'Delete the current transaction?',
and I did check 'Remember & don't ask me again this session'.   For a
reconciled trans, it says the same plus more about deleting a trans w/
reconciled splits.   It sounds like checking the box for deleting a
transaction is the same flag for deleting reconciled trans.


> 
> > 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
>