Failure on replaying log file

Pedro Albuquerque palbuquerque73 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 07:04:25 EST 2017



Às 11:37 de 25-02-2017, Colin Law escreveu:
> 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.
Got it! My bad, I moved a transaction to the checking account (is it? 
bank account?).

Thank you for the help :)

Pedro.
> 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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