[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[David Carlson]

If he hasn't deleted his backups yet he may be able to pick one before the
event and re-run the scheduled transactions.  Just a thought....

David Carlson

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 11:39 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > PS Looking at the log files, I’m reminded that a number of scheduled
> transactions took place during the session. Inspecting these it seems that
> each one is recorded four times - here’s an example extracted from the
> larger of the two log file:
> >
> > ===== START
> > B     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> cd4cb60c1e5a5294eb4e7d2623dbaebe        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > B     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> f9d8cacc6b99135677ccc97ce6f4887d        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > ===== END
> > ===== START
> > R     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> cd4cb60c1e5a5294eb4e7d2623dbaebe        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > R     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> f9d8cacc6b99135677ccc97ce6f4887d        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > ===== END
> > ===== START
> > B     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> cd4cb60c1e5a5294eb4e7d2623dbaebe        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > B     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> f9d8cacc6b99135677ccc97ce6f4887d        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > ===== END
> > ===== START
> > R     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> cd4cb60c1e5a5294eb4e7d2623dbaebe        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > R     aefe075a22d466826d4735afb8159c08
> f9d8cacc6b99135677ccc97ce6f4887d        2019-02-08 00:03:46 +0000
>  2018-08-05 12:20:04 +0100       2018-08-05 11:59:00 +0100
>  9768413066e3e0d1272ba7839ea5f1cc        b0e28c7d097d448b29f193895c973d63
>               Amazon Prime Subscription                               n
>    0/1     0/100   1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100
> > ===== END
> >
> > I don’t know what the significance of “B” and “R” is in the first
> column, but the pairs of lines appear to be record the guids of the each
> transaction and the accounts the split refers to. I don’t suppose the
> appearance of Unix zero time (1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0100) at the end of each
> line is of any significance.
>
> There's a header at the top of the log file titling the columns. It's
>
>
> "mod|trans_guid|split_guid|time_now|date_entered|date_posted|acc_guid|acc_name|num|description|notes|memo|action|reconciled|amount|value|date_reconciled"
>
> The codes for the mod field are:
>
>  'B' for 'begin edit' (followed by the transaction as it looks before any
> changes, i.e. the 'old value')
>  'D' for delete (i.e. delete the previous B; echoes the data in the 'old
> B')
>  'C' for commit (i.e. accept a previous B; data that follows is the 'new
> value')
>  'R' for rollback (i.e. revert to previous B; data that follows should be
> identical to old B)
>
> So GnuCash tried twice to create the two splits of the Amazon Prime
> Subscription transaction only to roll them back for some reason.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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