Failure on replaying log file

[Colin Law]

On 25 February 2017 at 11:32, Pedro Albuquerque
<palbuquerque73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Às 11:28 de 25-02-2017, Colin Law escreveu:
>>
>> On 25 February 2017 at 11:15, Pedro Albuquerque
>> <palbuquerque73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know. The error generated itself. One night was fine, the other
>>> morning had a negative value. Maybe something while saving?
>>>
>>> Any way, I tried to different logs from that day, the ones available, and
>>> neither worked.
>>
>> What did you do to correct it? Presumably there was a faulty transaction.
>
> No, just the balance changed sometime around the beginning of the year 2017.
> What I did was reset it to the correct value at that date by altering the
> existing transaction.

A balance can't change without a transaction that changed it, so some
time around then either a transaction was deleted, added or modified.
If you look back you should be able to find the faulty transaction.
Compare it with your most recent good backup and find where it went
wrong.

Colin



>
> Pedro
>
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> Pedro.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Às 10:10 de 25-02-2017, Colin Law escreveu:
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps it re-played the faulty transaction.  What exactly was causing
>>>> the error in the balance?
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>> On 25 February 2017 at 09:33, Pedro Albuquerque
>>>> <palbuquerque73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thursday I closed my day with all accounts balanced and with correct
>>>>> values.
>>>>> Yesterday when I opened GnuCash, my pocket money account was showing a
>>>>> balance of *-164.25 €*where it should have 7.9 €. And I didn't enter
>>>>> any
>>>>> transactions.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried replaying the log for the previous day, but nothing happened.
>>>>> Since
>>>>> it was only one single account value, it was easy to correct, but
>>>>> replaying
>>>>> the log should have fixed this, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Pedro.
>>>>>
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