[GNC] Scary moment

[R Losey]

It ***MIGHT*** be some kind of user error... I may have neglected to enter
the checks last weekend, but I know for certain that they were entered on
Wednesday, and had the date right, because they should up in the this
year's report in right place.

It **MIGHT** be that I didn't save the data, but it almost certainly
auto-saved, and I know I didn't get any warning.  Messing around with the
gnucash-cli the next day, I never actually opened the gui - just ran the
updater, once with the old version, and one with the new version.

But today, when I opened the GUI, the data was missing again... I ran the
same report, and the data that had been there Wed was gone.



On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 4:15 PM Phyllis Bruce <pobruce46 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great thoughts, Adrien.  I have made every one of those mistakes in 45
> years of entering data.
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 3:56 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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Micah 6:8