[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 07:37, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > 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.
>

I think it more  likely that is a different issue, it sounds more as if GC
crashed for some reason so had not saved the data.

Colin


>
> Michael
>
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