[GNC] Error message

[RICHARD YENTZER]

Thanks !! You solved my problem. 😃

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 9:55 AM D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please keep the list in the loop by copying Gnucash users.
>
> I would look in the Scheduled Transaction Editor. There is some
> transaction there, I believe, which is named CHECKING STATEMENT. This
> scheduled transaction includes an entry that refers to an account by its
> (hidden) GUID*, which no longer exists in your file. You must change that
> transaction so that it refers to an account currently in your Chart of
> Accounts. Rather than reverse engineer the GUID by searching the data file
> for that GUID, I would simply delete all the template transactions in that
> scheduled transaction and recreate them anew, which will correct the
> reference.
>
> To return to your original question, your data will most likely not suffer
> from this error; whatever scheduled transaction you had will not get
> created, however.
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> * Transaction entries store an account's GUID, rather than an account
> name. So, were you to examine your raw Gnucash data, you would see a 32
> character code, instead of "Assets:Checking". This allows you to rename
> accounts without screwing up all your historical data. Thus, your renaming
> of this account would not break the Scheduled Transaction, I believe. The
> way you break your system is more convoluted, and involves deleting
> accounts and creating new one with the same human-readable name.
>
>
> On October 14, 2019, at 1:27 PM, RICHARD YENTZER <ryentzerjr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> I use Android gnucash to enter daily shopping expenditures on my phone,
> then transfer the file weekly through Dropbox to my PC. I recall
> temporarily renaming the account on the PC. Do you know of a way to ferret
> out the dangling transaction?
> Richard
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 1:29 AM D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Reading the error, I'd say you have a scheduled transaction named
>> "CHECKING STATEMENT" that refers to a no-longer-valid account ID.
>>
>> Did you by chance delete your checking account at some point and then
>> create a new account for it?
>>
>> David
>>
>> On October 14, 2019, at 10:19 AM, RICHARD YENTZER <ryentzerjr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> each time i open gnucash i receive the following message before my user
>> data file loads:
>>
>> Unknown account for guid [13f77f105c19b5a8b17edef872d7eed5], cancelling SX
>> [CHECKING STATEMENT] creation.
>> Unknown account for guid [13f77f105c19b5a8b17edef872d7eed5], cancelling SX
>> [CHECKING STATEMENT] creation.
>> Unknown account for guid [13f77f105c19b5a8b17edef872d7eed5], cancelling SX
>> [CHECKING STATEMENT] creation.
>>
>> it appears to me that this relates to the user data i'm accessing.
>>
>> what is this? is it causing or potentially causing harm? How can i get rid
>> of it?
>>
>> richard
>> ryentzerjr at gmail.com
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