[GNC] Canceling QIF Import Erases ALL Transactions

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 12:54:40 EDT 2020


Eric,

You just published your GPG public key to the entire user group.



On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:38 AM Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I understand about security; I'm going to upload my GPG public key to
> the bug report (and it should be attached to this email reply) and I ask
> that any request which may involve personal data be encrypted
> accordingly both ways.
>
>
> --------Eric H. Bowen
> eric at ehbowen.net <mailto:eric at ehbowen.net>
> On 3/21/2020 11:20 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> >
> >> On Mar 21, 2020, at 12:53 AM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yesterday I ran into this...I was attempting a .QIF import of
> transactions from my credit card company. The import seemed to progress
> normally, up until the "Match Transactions" stage. When it got there, every
> single one of the transactions which I had entered over the past 2+ years
> appeared in the list. I hit the cancel button in the requester, got the
> "busy" icon...and when Gnucash resumed, about ten minutes later, every one
> of my transactions in every account had vanished (with the sole exceptions
> of customer invoices and vendor bills)!
> >>
> >> I did have a fairly recent backup file available, so I restored to that
> and tried the import again. The same thing happened a second time.
> >>
> >> My NAS keeps track of file history and automatically saves the most
> recent versions every twenty minutes or so, so I do have versions from
> before and after the failed import saved (to a new file under a new name)
> as well as all of my log files. At the time of the import I was running
> Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS in a homebuilt machine
> with AMD FX-4100 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and an ASUS M5A88-M motherboard and using
> the SQLite3 backend.
> >>
> >> I opened a Bugzilla account and reported this (Bug 797651), but as
> reconstructing this may mean sharing my personal financial data I
> restricted the view access to the developer list. I have reconstructed my
> working account file from my backup, so there's been no loss of critical
> data. I'm sharing this for visibility and to ask if there is any additional
> information I should provide in the bug report to facilitate a permanent
> resolution to this problem. Thanks for any advice----Eric.
> > Chris has already responded to you on the bug report and will ask there
> for any additional information he needs.
> >
> > A general note: I wouldn't trust the view access settings to protect
> anything, it's at best security-by-obscurity. If one of us decides he needs
> to look at your book he'll provide a direct email address to send it to.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
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David Carlson


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