[GNC] Problem with Saved Reports

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Adrien,

Thanks for the reply. I already looked at the files.

This has happened twice, once about a year and a half ago, and once last week. When it happened first, I assumed a glitch in my machine, and focused on recovery. This is incident number two. So, there's no opportunity to discern any patterns. 

I didn't see anything particular in the files to suggest a reason for the truncation. The file seemed to end at a report boundary (although I am not a Scheme programmer). 

I note that the last line with data on it was line 666, so maybe it's just possessed by the devil. 

The original file is 181,670 bytes; the truncated file is 42,379 bytes. 

I see that most report entries in my file include the comment "based on template <guid>" , and I wonder whether these reports become unstable if the report upon which they are based gets deleted.

Another thing that I see is that many reports include account guids, and I am not sure whether these reports become unstable when an account gets deleted, thus leaving an invalid guid in the report. Perhaps Gnucash has a report clean up function that it performs sporadically?

David



On May 7, 2018, at 9:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

David,

Without having a more specific answer, does this truncation by chance happen at the same place in the report list every time? (indicating there might be a problem at a certain place in the file, namely, with the description of a single report)

It is a plain text file that looks fairly straightforward in its description, so even without a roadmap for the syntax, you could peek at it and see if any report doesn’t seem to conform to the norm or if there is errant text there.

Just a thought unless/until you get a more definitive answer.

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 7, 2018, at 8:06 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have encountered now a couple of times the unpleasant experience of calling up my saved reports configurations, only to find all but 5 or 7 completely gone. When I examine the saved-reports-2.4 file stored on my hard drive, it has been reduced in size to about 30k. This has happened now on two completely different occasions, separated by months. Thankfully, I have been able to go to backups and locate the original 180k saved-reports-2.4, and my reports are back where they should be.
> 
> For the record, there have been no other indications of trouble (i.e., no frozen instances of GnuCash, no crashes), and I have not undertaken any major operations (loading of huge numbers of transactions, closing books, etc.). Just, one day, the reports are there, the next, they’re not.
> 
> The fact that this has now happened more than once suggests a serious problem (most likely with something stupid I have done) with my saved reports file, and I would like to ask whether there is any sort of utility (like Check and Repair) that I can run on the saved reports to determine what might be causing this file to auto-truncate itself. Assuming that there isn’t, does anyone have any suggestions on what I might look for that could cause this behavior? It’s really disturbing to open up GnuCash, and discover that my reports have been simply disappeared.
> 
> TIA,
> David T.
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