[GNC] Scary moment

[R Losey]

Good ideas... my responses:

The transactions were not in the wrong accounts; they just went missing. I
**THINK** I entered them last weekend; when I was doing tax work on
Wednesday, they weren't there, and I re-entered them, re-running the report
and verifying that the data now showed up. I completed the tax work and
didn't think anymore about it.  On Thursday, I updated the financial quote,
and run it a few times. This morning, the data I had entered on Wednesday
was missing, and I had to re-enter it again.

I've never used View Filters, so I don't think it was that -- in addition,
I double-checked the balance after I entered the data today, and it was
right.

My Orphan and Imbalance are 0, as they should be.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 3:57 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Another possibility:
>
> The transactions ended up in a different account.
>
> Do a Find from the Accounts tab from all sides of the transaction and
> see if they pop up when you think they are missing.
>
> Also, check the Orphan and Imbalance accounts.
>
> And another possibility:
>
> You have a View Filter on the affected register(s).
>
> The status bar indicates on the far right, if you are using a filtered
> view.
>
> A third:
>
> The dates are way off and aren't where you are looking. This may or may
> not be combined with a filtered view. A Find using accounts, amounts,
> descriptions, et cetera should find them so you can correct the dates.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 12/30/22 10:43 AM, R Losey 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.
> >
>
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Richard Losey
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