Possible Bug in reconciliation - Gnucash 2.6 for Mac Mavericks

[Michael Hendry]

On 12 Jan 2014, at 21:14, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> One quick alternative (especially given your assertion that you haven’t created any Scheduled Transactions): I have found that if I set the date in an empty transaction at the end of a register, and then click on another transaction in the register (as might happen if I want to copy an existing transaction and want the default date to be different than today), GnuCash creates a stub record for the date I selected. All I do to fix it is delete the ghost.
> 
> In your case, I’d imagine that you did that in each register, but then again, maybe not. 

Probably not.

I can’t find any trace of this null transaction in my bank account, nor in the General Ledger, but if I request Reports—>Account Report in either of these it comes up:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lmni9zmalnxifl/Screenshot%202014-01-12%2022.30.46.png

It would appear that I’ve created half of a split transaction somehow.

30th December 2013 was the date on which I switched over to GC 2.6. I’ve opened the backup I took immediately before the upgrade, and this doesn’t have the offending transaction.

The ghost transaction is not visible in the account itself, and although it is possible to delete a transaction from the reconciliation window, I’m not sure what would happen if I try it - I’ll wait for 2.61 and tidy up then.

Thanks

Michael

> 
> David
> 
> On Jan 12, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12 Jan 2014, at 18:54, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 12, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 12 Jan 2014, at 15:00, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 12, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Reconciling my current bank account today, I came across two apparently empty transactions dated 30/12/2013, one in Funds In, the other in Funds Out.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> See a screenshot at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dv2o0jo1mogsz90/Screenshot%202014-01-12%2008.24.30.png
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Right-clicking on either of these and choosing the Edit option takes me back to the most recently highlighted transaction in the register.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There is no sign of a corresponding blank transaction in the register.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Probably another manifestation of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721290
>>>> 
>>>> Anything I should be doing about it…
>>>> 
>>>> a) to avoid trouble in my own accounts
>>>> b) to isolate the problem and assist repair?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> As you can see from the bug report, Mike Evans has already pointed out the source of the problem, and I’m working on a solution. The extra transaction does no harm, and will become visible again in 2.6.1, so there’s nothing really to worry about.
>> 
>> OK - reassurance accepted - it’s just that I haven’t created any new Scheduled Transactions since installing 2.6, and it wasn’t immediately clear to me that the bug report matched my problem.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
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