Recovered from a crash to find columns swapped and assets negative

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Rean Jacob <reanjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Recently my GnuCash account crashed when trying to do .qif import.
> Afterwards its recovered but then the debit and credit columns seems to be
> swapped
> 
> Here’s how it is:
> 
> I have a Silicon Valley bank account and I had two people give transfer
> cash as investors (*screenshot*)
> 
> http://d.pr/i/SNu2
> 
> [image: Inline image 1]
> 
> Earlier this cash was shown as credit and the corresponding entry in the
> investor section as debit. But now it’s the other way round
> 
> http://d.pr/i/WorQ
> 
> [image: Inline image 2]
> 
> I think this has led to the overall assets being marked negative
> 
> http://d.pr/i/13M3a
> 
> [image: Inline image 3]
> 
> I tried repairing this accounts.
> 
> What could have gone wrong?

Was the QIF import related to these two transactions?

If you're using the XML backend there should be some time-stamped backup files in the same directory as your account file. You can open the last one of those previous to the crash to eliminate any corruption caused by the crash.

Regards,
John Ralls