[GNC] Scary moment

[Derek Atkins]

Unlikely..

HOWEVER, one IMPORTANT thing to keep in mind on the Mac is that GnuCash
does not honor double-clicking on a data file to open /that/ file.  When
you double-click on ANY data file, GnuCash will start and ALWAYS open the
last file you had used..  It doesn't matter WHAT file you clicked on...

If you File -> Save As, then that becomes your new "last used file".
If you File -> Open, then THAT becomes your new "last used file".

If you need to open a specific file on a Mac, you must ALWAYS use File ->
Open.  And then you need to be aware that that is the new "last used file"
and is what GnuCash will open the next time you start it.

-derek

On Fri, December 30, 2022 11:47 am, R Losey wrote:
> 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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