[GNC] Scary moment

[R Losey]

Yes, I'm well aware of that... I NEVER double-click on the GnuCash files; I
just bring up GnuCash itself and it uses (I presume) the last file I used,
which is the only one I have.

So, it wasn't that.  On Wed, I did the open on the Mac and they were
missing (I thought that I may have forgotten to enter them, but that's
never happened before for me).  Today, I opened GnuCash on Windows and the
transactions were definitely missing.

The only thing I've done differently is that I've started running the
gnucash command line updater more frequently. I have been running it on
Friday nights, but this week I started running it Tue, Wed, and Thu.  Wed
(I think) I ran the update program and went to the latest version.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:03 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 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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Richard Losey
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Micah 6:8