[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[Michael Hendry]

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 23:54, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Actually, the first file was modified on 8th Feb at 00:01, followed by the lock file at 00:03.
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>> The MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6yhc file isn’t a text file like the others, so I suspect that it’s part of the compression process that eventually results in a new MDH.gnucash file.
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> That file that was touched at 00:01 is the previous session's log file as is indicated by the timestamp in the file name.

OK, I missed that detail.

It raises a question to me (probably not relevant to this problem) - why would a log file have to be modified (or just touched) at the beginning of a new session?

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> Try renaming the tmp file to something ending in gz and then run gunzip on it. Unless the gzip is borked it should turn into a text file.
> After that diff it with MDH.gnucash to see what's been added or deleted.

| ~/tmp/BUG @ Michaels-iMac (michaelhendry) 
| => gunzip temp.gz
gunzip: temp.gz: unexpected end of file
gunzip: temp.gz: uncompress failed

Running gunzip on MDH.gnucash (appropriately renamed) expands it into an xml file, as expected.

Michael