Closing Book causes Imbalance????

[replicon]

ACK! I figured it out!

I noticed it was choking on a building depreciation transaction.

Looks like just one of my expense accounts, probably due to typo/click-o
when setting it up, had "smallest fraction" set to "1" instead of "Use
Commodity Value".

As a result, the depreciation transaction for the building was rounded up to
the dollar on that expense account. NO imbalance was created by this, and it
didn't throw up a warning, so it was up to me to notice that it did the
wrong thing (which I didn't - it's a basic transaction).

So... I had to fix that account, and then redo the book-closing.

No thanks to GNUCash's crappy error handling, silently creating missing
pennies, and then choking at the end of the year book-closing, silently
creating an Imbalance account instead of blaring an error message.

.... BTW is there a way to enable a "Always display a warning if there is
imbalance" message? There are zero scenarios where it's acceptable to me to
create a transaction that results in a "Imbalance-USD" account. Usually, I
check at the end of updating my file whether I screwed up and created
imbalance, but sometimes I don't notice... I'd like it to just yell at me
immediately when I mess up a transaction and create an imbalance, so I don't
have to do archaeology later when I notice it.... I'll never get these 2
hours back.

*grumble grumble* :D



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