Paying Invoices

[R. Victor Klassen]

On Feb 18, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

> Hi Victor,
>  
> You seem be have gotten caught up in lot-link proliferation. All versions of gnucash between 2.6.0 and 2.6.4 were very liberal in creating lot links for business transactions and you could eventually end up with lots of pre-payments in different directions.
>  
> The best solution IMO is to
> 1. upgrade to version 2.6.5

Tried that.  I think I’d been waiting due some comments about instability on the MacOS.  But I went ahead and downloaded it.
When I opened the file using 2.6.5, it crashed.  Consistently.
I re-opened using 2.6.3, closed all the tabs except the account tree and closed.  
Then opening with 2.6.5 worked without crashing.

> 2. select your AR account in the account hierarchy (but don't open its register - in fact close the register if it's still open)
> 3. run "check&repair selected account”

How long should this take?  I’ve had the spinning lollipop for over an hour now.

>  
> GnuCash 2.6.5 has changed its lot link policy again and is now very conservative about creating one. It will do so only when absolutely necessary (which is when you offset an invoice with a credit note).
>  
> The check & repair step will go through your existing invoices and payments and will attempt to convert as much of the existing lot links as possible into straight invoice/payment links.
>  
> I am not sure if check & repair will manage to fix *all* left-over prepayments. Let me know how it goes as perhaps it might need some more tuning for the next gnucash release.
>  
> Geert