[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[Michael Hendry]

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 15:42, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the save process.  Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving?
>>>> 
>>>> David T.
>>> 
>>> That’s what I was implying, although I would be surprised if Gnucash didn’t have a means of preventing itself from being shut down while busy doing a file save.
>>> 
>>> In any case, the orderly shutting down of the program (i.e. not involving a crash) should have included the deletion of the lock file even if it had abandoned the “Save”.
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>> 
>> Further lock file problem:
>> 
>> Yesterday evening I completed the failed reconciliation, along with a few other transactions, and quit GC before going out for a few hours at 20:30.
>> 
>> Returning home around midnight, I opened my GC file again, and tidied up a couple of loose ends, and closed down shortly afterwards.
>> 
>> Today when I tried to run GC, I got the lock file message, and this time I clicked “Quit” rather than forcing the file open.
>> 
>> I checked with Activity Monitor that there was no current instance of GC running.
>> 
>> Here is a screenshot of the Accounts folder’s most recent files:
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zjvogbdl885rr2d/Screenshot%202019-02-08%2015.12.05.png?dl=0
>> 
>> and the same information via the command-line:
>> 
>> | => ls -lt
>> total 84324
>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff   221184  8 Feb 00:04 MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6yhc
>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff    95629  8 Feb 00:04 MDH.gnucash.20190208000345.log
>> -rw-------  2 michaelhendry  staff        0  8 Feb 00:03 MDH.gnucash.0.82823.LNK
>> -rw-------  2 michaelhendry  staff        0  8 Feb 00:03 MDH.gnucash.LCK
>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff      809  8 Feb 00:01 MDH.gnucash.20190207202353.log
>> -rwx------  2 michaelhendry  staff  1136826  7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash
>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff      853  7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash.20190207202200.log
>> -rwx------  2 michaelhendry  staff  1136826  7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash.20190208000443.gnucash
>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff    23810  7 Feb 20:22 MDH.gnucash.20190207185926.log
>> -rwx------  1 michaelhendry  staff  1136752  7 Feb 20:22 MDH.gnucash.20190207202348.gnucash
>> -rwx------  1 michaelhendry  staff  1136766  7 Feb 18:59 MDH.gnucash.20190207202153.gnucash
>> 
>> There is no corresponding crash report, so I conclude that GC has failed to tidy up properly before closing.
> 
> Do you remember how you did the save last night? IOW did you click the save button, wait until the save was finished, and select GnuCash>Quit from the menu or type Cmd-Q and then select "Save before quitting" from the dialog box, or perhaps click the save icon and then immediately type Cmd-Q?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

I clicked Save, waited for the save to finish and quit via Gnucash->Quit (i.e. not Cmd-Q).

Michael