[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 12:52 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Right, and if so there should be a crash report in /Applications/Utilities/Console.

Regards,
John Ralls