[GNC] Deleting Transaction from Reconcile Deletes Wrong Transaction

[David Carlson]

I haven't needed to do a reconciliation yet since this thread started, but
perhaps in the next few days.

In the meantime,  I didn't even realize that you could right click split
lines in that screen and do things.  If that works successfully, wonderful.

I have always used the menu to navigate to the transaction in the register
view and perform my edits there.

Finally,  I  subscribe to the theory to save a backup just before starting
any significant activity such as a reconciliation or import. That is one
reason I am not using a database file format and I won't until the
application has a way to undo several recent actions.  My cat does
occasionally walk across the keyboard.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:47 PM Thomas Forrester <tlforrester at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I guess you didn't read what I wrote.  So, let me say it again (via the
> magic of copy/paste):
>
> "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."
>
> Reverting to a backup after doing as much work as I had leading up to that
> reconciliation in that session would have been a multitude of times more
> painful.  Bad stuff always happens after lots of other stuff has happened -
> Murphy's Law.  The backup is for truly catastrophic stuff, or maybe if
> you're just lucky and haven't done anything else yet.
>
> This is hardly and interface error.  And checking the 4.13 change log
> reveals nothing addressing this or any related reconciliation bug.  The
> known issues list doesn't even identify it.  I don't think it's on anyone's
> radar.
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 4:28 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
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