Check & Repair All

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Mon Nov 20 13:27:05 EST 2017


Op zondag 19 november 2017 16:38:20 CET schreef John Ralls:
> > On Nov 19, 2017, at 6:34 AM, Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I occasionally run Check & Repair all just to get a good feeling that
> > everything is in good running order.  Is this the right thing to do?  I've
> > never detected a problem and it has never provided any feedback of any
> > kind.
> > 
> > I thought I would see if I'm doing harm in any way and if this was a good,
> > bad, or unnecessary practice.
> 
> It’s harmless and generally unnecessary. The checks get run every time you
> start GnuCash or open a file.

I'm not sure this is true for all checks that get run by Check & Repair. I'd 
have to dig deeper into the code, but I can't remember for example the lot 
link cleanups run automatically during start up.

Geert


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