Failure of a Scheduled Transaction

Michael Hendry hendry.michael at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 04:40:21 EST 2015


> On 29 Jan 2015, at 08:53, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29 January 2015 at 07:48, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I pay an identical allowance to each of my four children on the first day of each month from my current bank account, and have set up four essentially identical Scheduled Transactions to record this.
>> 
>> When I came to reconcile my bank statement earlier this month, I found that one of these four transactions hadn’t taken place.
>> 
>> I tried using “Since Last Run”, but this didn’t generate a new transaction.
>> 
>> I checked the setting for the four SXs, and found they were identical.
>> 
>> I eventually got the missing transaction to work by disabling its SX and then enabling it again, followed by “Since Last Run”.
>> 
>> I’m not sure if this is a bug, a user error or a random glitch, but the first two seem unlikely given that only one of the four identical SXs failed.
>> 
>> There’s probably not much I can do to investigate this - any suggestions?
> 
> Probably too late to ask now, but what did Last Occurrence and Next
> Occurrence say for the missing transaction?

I think 1/12/2014 and 1/1/2015 (the others were 1/1/2015 and 1/2/2015).

I should be able to find out by opening the backup immediately prior to the reconciliation - will do that later.

> 
> What OS are you running on and which version of GC (version is shown
> at bottom of splash screen on startup)?

Mac OS X 10.10.2
GC 2.6.3

Michael

> 
> Colin




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