[GNC] Scary moment

R Losey rlosey at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 11:47:09 EST 2022


I just had a thought about what may be the cause... I was fooling around
with the financial quote program on Ubuntu and had run it multiple times.
Maybe that somehow erased the changes.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 10:43 AM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was doing preliminary tax workup earlier this week, and (to my
> surprise), there were some transactions mentioned that I thought I'd
> entered last Friday... (I only noticed because they weren't there in the
> report I was using). Anyway, I entered them, verified that they showed up
> on the report, and went my way.
>
> This morning, I opened GnuCash to do regular data entry for the week, and
> those same transactions were missing again.
>
> It was scary... possibly even scarey.
>
> My first thought was that I had accidentally opened an old version of the
> data file, but it did not appear to be so.  My next was that there was a
> problem between 4.12 and 4.13... I had entered the transactions on 4.12
> under MacOs, and was on 4.13 on Windows 10 earlier.
>
> I re-entered the missing transactions again and closed and
> re-opened GnuCash, and they were there, so I'm not sure what happened.
>
> But it was frightening to ponder how many transactions that I didn't catch
> may be missing.
>
> I'm hoping that I just forgot to save the data file the other day, but
> that is pretty rare for me.
>
> I just updated my MacOS GnuCash version to 4.13.... and I ran a file check
> that completed without problems.
>
> --
> _________________________________
> Richard Losey
> rlosey at gmail.com
> Micah 6:8
>


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