[GNC] Going Back to Go Forward?

Tue Aug 7 00:09:48 EDT 2018

I would consider needing to close and reopen a bank account register after
each transaction edit executed by pasting some text from the clipboard to
be a major showstopper when I have ten or twenty transaction s a day.

David C

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 10:42 PM Michael via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I guess I hadn't tried to do a paste into a transaction.  I see what
> you mean, although I didn't need to restart gnucash to recover.  While
> I was typing the answer came from David Reiser that it will be fixed
> when 3.3 comes out.  Mike
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Forrester
> <tlforrester at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, in particular, what I mentioned in the original post: once you
> > use
> > the clipboard to paste into a transaction, all further editing of
> > that. or
> > apparently anything else is just not going to happen until you
> > restart the
> > program.  To me, that's about the biggest show-stopper I could ever
> > consider with *any* program - having to restart it all the time just
> > to get
> > it working again.  I should think this massive problem would have been
> > corrected almost immediately given the magnitude of the inconvenience
> > it
> > causes, but it has been quite a while and I have no clue how long it
> > will
> > take.
> >
> > If someone can tell me it's already been fixed and there is a 3.2.1
> > (or
> > whatever) release due any second now, great!  I'll wait it out.  But
> > a few
> > more months till something happens, well, um...
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:18 AM Adrien Monteleone <
> > adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  You may not get a warning or alert!
> >>
> >>  Also, yes, at the very least the date/time stamps are different and
> >> this
> >>  is particularly an issue with the MySQL backend if I recall
> >> correctly. I
> >>  wouldn’t attempt to step back any further than 2.6.21, but I’d
> >> ask, what in
> >>  particular are you finding that you need to step back for?
> >>
> >>  There were some early issues with data but those seem to have been
> >> solved
> >>  by 3.2. (I’m using the sqlite3 backend, and had to switch to XML
> >> during the
> >>  interim but am back to normal with the 3.2 release) Sure there are
> >> a few
> >>  annoyances with the 3.x series so far, but those are being worked
> >> out.
> >>
> >>  Regards,
> >>  Adrien
> >>
> >>  > On Aug 6, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Thomas Forrester
> >> <tlforrester at gmail.com>
> >>  wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  > Thanks, Mike.
> >>  >
> >>  > So from what you are saying, there is some sort of data
> >> structures check
> >>  > that would alert me if I am using a version of the program that is
> >>  > incompatible with the data version.  Checking my downloads, I
> >> find I have
> >>  > the .21 installer which I wouldn't have unless I had installed
> >> that
> >>  > version.  So Looks like I may be good to take a step back.
> >>  >
> >>  > Maybe a corollary question then -  although backward compatible
> >> with a
> >>  .21
> >>  > database, does 3.x introduce any new changes to the data
> >> structures that
> >>  > would make this a really bad idea?
> >>  >
> >>  > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:26 AM Michael <mjchurchil at aol.com> wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  >> It is my understanding that 2.6.21 is the only 2.6.x that is
> >> compatible
> >>  >> with the 3.2 data structure.  I have used 2.6.21 successfully
> >> with 3.2
> >>  >> data, but older 2.6.x report that they are not compatible.  I
> >> believe
> >>  that
> >>  >> is true of xml and sql databases.  Mike
> >>  >>
> >>  >> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 4:17 AM, Thomas Forrester
> >> <tlforrester at gmail.com
> >>  >
> >>  >> wrote:
> >>  >>
> >>  >> On a Windows computer, I upgraded to 3.2 from 2.6.20 I think it
> >> was back
> >>  >> when I first noticed version 3 had been released. Took me till
> >> 3.2 to
> >>  >> notice, but I think it was within a few days of the 3.2 release
> >> Having
> >>  now
> >>  >> used 3.2 for a short while, I'm wondering if there's any issue
> >> with
> >>  going
> >>  >> back to 2.6.x? In other words, are there any underlying data
> >> structure
> >>  >> changes, or other file changes, that would make this a huge
> >> mistake? I
> >>  am
> >>  >> using the MySQL database backend. I just feel at this point
> >> that, if I
> >>  >> can't further edit anything after pasting something in from the
> >>  clipboard,
> >>  >> that it may be a better idea to go back so I can go forward.
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