Crash in 2.4.10 under Windows

[Neil Marks]

I have had also issues running 2.4.10 under windows 7  with it hanging 
at various places, so I went back to 2.4.8 and I'm happy to stay on this
level for now.
Regards
Neil

On 18/03/2012 19:02, rsbrux wrote:
> I downloaded and installed 2.4.10 on a Windows XP x64 system yesterday.  I
> was previously running 2.4.7 without apparent problems, but since I am still
> setting up my accounts in GnuCash, perhaps I wasn't working it that hard.
> The new release identifies itself as r22003.  I recently enabled trading
> accounts, and am making significant changes to my account structure to
> accommodate multiple currencies.  GC 2.4.10 has now crashed at least 3 times
> while I was trying to make these changes.  However, it isn't clear to me
> whether or not this really has to do with my actions in GC.  One crash
> occurred while I was changing focus from the Help-Tutorial window back to
> GC.  I thought it might be a memory problem, so I tried saving more
> frequently and turning auto-saves back on, but this doesn't seem to help.
> After a crash, the changes made to the account structure are preserved, but
> changes made to the appearance of the "Accounts" tab (i.e. which parts of
> the tree are expanded or collapsed) are not.
> I also have what appears to be an unrelated problem.  One of the changes I
> made (after a few of the crashes mentioned above) was to create an interest
> income subaccount in USD to eliminate an unwanted trading transaction (my
> default currency is CHF).  After redirecting the transaction to the newly
> created account, the amounts do not match, even though both source and
> destination account are in USD. There are also still entries in the trading
> accounts, even though I have performed "Actions - Check&  Repair - Check&
> Repair All".  When I tryto restore equality in the 2 "real" account entries
> by deleting the trading account transaction, GC crashed.  My attempt to
> start this session in debug mode was unsuccessful due to a syntax error, but
> I have attached the log file from the session, in case that helps.
> I was in the process of migrating from Quicken to GC, but now find it
> necessary to reenter everything I have entered in GC in Quicken :-(, unless
> someone can suggest a less painful alternative.  In view of the errors in
> GC; I am nervous about trying to export the transacations from GC and import
> them into Quicken.  should I try to go back to an older version of GC and,
> if so, which one?
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4482706/2012wTrading.gnucash.20120318183756.log
> 2012wTrading.gnucash.20120318183756.log
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