[GNC] * Unsaved book - Gnucash

Michael Hendry hendry.michael at gmail.com
Thu May 2 16:59:00 EDT 2019


> On 2 May 2019, at 00:47, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> I sure hope so.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Thanks, John.

Encouraged by your confidence in 3.5, I downloaded and installed it this afternoon, from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/

Having mounted the DMG file (Gnucash-Intel-3.5-1.dmg) I dragged and dropped the Gnucash.app across to the Applications folder, and ran it from there on my current (version 3.4) file.

On the first run Gnucash shut down without any apparent reason (this seems to be a common finding), but I ran it again and entered a few transactions without trouble.

I saved and closed the file as normal.

When next I opened the same file the account registers were opened as I had left them, but the program wouldn’t respond at all, and the menu bar had none of the usual menu items, just the Apple symbol and “Gnucash”.

I was unable to shut Gnucash down using the usual methods, so had to Force Quit, and when I tried again I got the file lock warning - I said Open Anyway, but the result was the same.

I’ve since tried opening the same file with version 3.4, but that behaved in exactly the same way.

I’ve also tried downloading and reinstalling 3.5-1, with no change in the outcome.

Where do I go from here?

Michael Hendry

> 
> 
>> On May 1, 2019, at 8:32 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 1 May 2019, at 16:02, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 1, 2019, at 6:46 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’m using version 3.4 on Mac OS X High Sierra.
>>>> 
>>>> This comes up briefly in the Gnucash title bar when I’ve finished working on one file and File->Open another one, although the file that is being closed has definitely been saved already.
>>>> 
>>>> It doesn’t seem to have any adverse effect (apart from operator anxiety).
>>> 
>>> Michael,
>>> 
>>> GnuCash is currently written to always have a book to the point that when switching from one to another it creates one for the brief interval while the old one is closed and the new one is loading. That's the indication you're seeing. 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, John.
>> 
>> I had suffered from premature Gnucash shutdown during file saving when I first started using 3.4, so I was alarmed that something similar might be happening.
>> 
>> IIRC that particular bug is fixed in 3.5.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael Hendry
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