[GNC] known bug in crash while editing reconciled transactions?

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 5, 2019, at 10:23 PM, John Clements <johnbclements at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This bug might be reproducible, but I'd rather not spend the time if it's
> already a known PR.
> 
> The issue is this: I reconciled a bundle of transactions. Then, I opened an
> "edit" window, and changed the target accounts for a number of these
> transactions. Then I walked away from the machine. About a day later, I
> came back, and tried to import a QIF, and it crashed. That's not a big
> deal, programs crash. When I restarted gnucash, though, I see that those
> transactions are now listed as being unreconciled. Mercifully, I noticed it
> quickly, and their amounts had also been deducted from the last reconciled
> total, so fixing it was an easy matter of re-reconciling with the same
> closing balance as before and ticking off all of the edited transactions.
> No damage done, at least in this case, but it would have been very
> unpleasant to have discovered days or years later.
> 
> So! Is this a known issue? If not, I'd be happy to try to reproduce it, and
> then file a PR.

If you edit reconciled transactions GnuCash marks them unreconciled. The warning dialog told you that it would.

I don’t see any crashes in the open bugs for the QIF importer, so if the crash was with GnuCash 3.4 please do file a bug report.

Regards,
John Ralls