[GNC] Deleting Transaction from Reconcile Deletes Wrong Transaction

[Adrien Monteleone]

That sounds like a GTK bug. You were raising a context menu on what was 
selected, not where the mouse pointer was located. If you had a line in 
the left pane selected, that is what got deleted.

Maybe reverting to a backup file and making it your main file would be 
in order for restoring your books to a sane state then starting the 
reconciliation over.

As for the bug, I suppose you can file it, but I wouldn't be surprised 
if it is a GTK rather than GnuCash problem.

But before you do, try GnuCash 4.13 first. I think the GTK version was 
just bumped on that release.

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/29/22 3:36 PM, Thomas Forrester wrote:
> I was reconciling several credit card statements for the same card and had
> noticed that a subscription payment I had set up as an automatic entry was
> showing up even though I had canceled the subscription.  Clearly, I hadn't
> discontinued the automatic transaction entry in GnuCash.  I ignored several
> of the subscription transactions while reconciling, but then I thought I
> might as well just delete them in the Reconcile screen since you can
> right-click and delete transactions right there.  With the first ot 3 of
> the transactions highlighted, I right-clicked on it and selected delete.  I
> clicked OK to the confirmation message affirming I was sure I wanted to
> delete the transaction. I rather mindlessly repeated that action a couple
> of times, then realized the transactions weren't deleting.  Much to my
> horror, I realized transactions on the left (debit) column for the
> reconciliation was getting shorter, not the right (credit) column where the
> highlighted item I was trying to delete was.
> 
> Again, I'm going to stress this: I was right-clicking on a transaction in
> the right (credit) column.  It was already highlighted, and there was no
> other transaction highlighted.  The right-click context menu appeared
> alongside the mouse pointer which was positioned on the highlighted credit
> transaction.  From that menu I selected and confirmed the delete of the
> highlighted credit transaction.  A debit transaction was deleted instead.
> 
> Obviously, this is not correct behavior.
> 
> This is GnuCash 4.11 Build ID: 4.11+(2022-06-25) using a MariaDB backend.