[GNC] Recovering deleted transaction from log files

[Greg Feneis]

I imagine logging is minimal by default to help keep GnuCash speedy.
Unless the user increases verbosity via CLI when launching GnuCash.  Just a
guess.

I'm also curious about controlling logging. I bet it's documented somewhere

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Pixel 3)


On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 15:00 Roland Roberts <roland at astrofoto.org> wrote:

> On 2/21/2020 11:54 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
> > [...]
> > So... I figured the log file(s) between those two should have the
> > missing transactions. But that file is nothing but a sequence of
> >
> > ===== START
> > ===== END
> >
> > after the header.  Why wouldn't the log have my deleted transactions
> > in it?
>
> So I was able to track down the missing transaction. What had actually
> happened was that I had apparently edited it (obviously in error) and
> change the account on a payment to a credit card. That removed it's
> reconciled state in the bank account from which the payment had been
> made (naturally, it was no longer against that account). I did that the
> painful way by unpacking the two gnucash files and doing diff, that
> tracking through the diffs.
>
> I'm still puzzled by the log file. I read through some of the gnucash
> docs and realize that scheduled transactions are special beasts and that
> those don't show up in the logs, but an edit like this I thought would.
> My immediate problem is solved, but...I'd like to know what sort of
> things the logs can help me with since it wasn't as useful as I expected
> for this case.
>
> roland
>
>
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