[GNC] Scary moment

[Derek Atkins]

I suppose there could have been a bug..

GnuCash is supposed to prevent you from exiting if there is unsaved data. 
However, I suppose there COULD be a way for you to shut down / close
GnuCash in a way that prevents it from popping up that dialog box.

-derek

On Fri, December 30, 2022 12:46 pm, R Losey wrote:
> 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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>>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>
>>
>
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> Richard Losey
> rlosey at gmail.com
> Micah 6:8
>


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       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant