[GNC] Corrupt security information

[Bruno Acklin]

Hi John,

Thanks for the impressively quick reply - and yes, I agree this looks like the same problem!
Unfortunately there does not seem to be another fix than recreating the stock, account and transactions..

Do you know of a way I might preserve the 20 years of price data I have on that stock? I saw a suggestion to create a suitable report and reimport the resulting file, but I dd not see any report that would allow me to save price information.

Best regards,
Bruno Acklin
(408) 425 4753





> On Jan 4, 2020, at 7:43 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 6:39 PM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Best wishes for 2020!
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>> I am struggling with a stock account, where I am unable to enter any valid transactions, and suspect the security information may be corrupted:
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>> Whenever I enter a trade from the account (declared as stock for an existing security INTC) and press return, Gnucash completes a transaction (cf attachment), which looks ok, except there is no shares traded and there is no way to enter any quantity on the trading account. Gnucash insists on balancing the transaction, after which there is a huge number in the trading/share account, but still no quantity of shares traded, and no way to complete the transaction, other than closing the account tab.
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>> I checked the security and my price information which looks ok and updates w/ finance::quote. If I have to recreate the account and reenter all transactions, I’d like to save the historic price information, but don’t know of a way to export it.
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> That sounds like a variation on https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797512 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797512>.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls