[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[Michael Hendry]

> On 3 Feb 2019, at 14:59, Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Ira me again, this seems to be happening on v3.4 
> 
> Changes made by ticking entries are no longer saved after opting to
> postpone, anyone else noticed this?


A slightly different (but perhaps connected?) reconciliation problem happened to me yesterday.

I’m using version 3.4 on iMac with High Sierra.

I reconciled 9 separate statements with their corresponding accounts on Tuesday. In some instances I had to enter transactions which appeared on the statement but for which I didn’t have a receipt (e.g. contactless travel charges), and found I couldn’t do this without postponing (this is possible in 2.6.16). Once I’d made these entries I was able to go back and complete the reconciliation.

Yesterday morning I reconciled a single account, marked it complete, clicked “Save” and quit Gnucash - I was going to be out all day, and wasn’t planning to do any more work on the books. The unusual aspect was the quick sequence of finishing the reconciliation, clicking Save and Quit - usually I would tidy up the papers before shutting down. The Mac itself was left running.

In the evening I decided to reconcile another couple of statements, but when I started Gnucash I got the lock-file warning, but overrode it because there was no other instance of Gnucash running, only to find that the reconciliation from the morning hadn’t been saved.

A number of minor corrections I’d made to transactions during the session have been recorded.

I suppose it’s possible that I hit Cancel instead of Finish at the end of the reconciliation, but I’ve never made this error since I started using GC in 2010.

Michael