Recovered from a crash to find columns swapped and assets negative

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Phil Hays <phil_hays at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> I've also just had a crash importing a .qif file.
> 
> I've used gnucash for years, and never had an issue like this.
> 
> Lots of transactions got weird. Prices of stocks became negative. And
> so on.
> 
> What I did was to roll back to the save file right before the crash.
> Look at the date stamp on the .qif that caused the crash, then at the
> backup accounts files, and find one just older than the .qif.
> 
> The .qif file was from Fidelity, my 401k account.
> 
> Would someone please check if there is an open bug for this issue? I
> can develop a test case if needed.

More likely a closed bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756335. The solution is to not use GnuCash 2.6.10; the current release, 2.6.11, was a snap release expressly to fix this bug.

Regards,
John Ralls