[GNC] Canceling QIF Import Erases ALL Transactions

Eric H. Bowen eric at ehbowen.net
Sat Mar 21 13:06:23 EDT 2020


   Isn't that the point of a PUBLIC key?
   Now, of course I'm not going to respond with personal data unless I can
   verify that the requester's address is on a list of known Gnucash
   developers, but anyone is welcome to email me securely. In fact, I
   prefer it.
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   From: david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
   Sent: March 21, 2020 12:02 PM
   To: eric at ehbowen.net
   Cc: jralls at ceridwen.us; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
   Subject: Re: [GNC] Canceling QIF Import Erases ALL Transactions

   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
   <[2]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
     [3]eric at ehbowen.net <mailto:[4]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
     <[5]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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