[GNC] Scary moment

[Peter West]

How are you accessing your file from the two different operating systems? Are you running a Linux VM on your Windows system? If so, are you accessing a common disc from both systems, or are you using a network file system to access the GnuCash data file?


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Peter West
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> On 31 Dec 2022, at 11:31 am, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Versions are a little confusing.... Mac was running 4.12 until today; I am
> now on the current version.
> 
> I updated the Windows version earlier this week.
> 
> Linux GnuCash is older (4.<something>), but I don't run the GUI there -
> usually just the gnucash-cli stock updates, which I updated on Thursday
> from whatever it was.
> 
> For now, I'm going to avoid running the gnucash-cli updates... I only
> caught the missing checks because of the tax work I was doing; I'm rather
> scared about what else may have been lost.
> 
> Also, I've closed and re-opened GnuCush on both Windows and Mac multiple
> times, and the transactions are there, like I expect (but I haven't run the
> stock price update)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:25 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> 
>> Are you using the current version? If so, it might be appropriate to
>> enter a bug report, mentioning each of the things you have checked for.
>> 
>> Stan Brown
>> Tehachapi, CA, USA
>> https://BrownMath.com
>> 
>> On 2022-12-30 17:23, R Losey wrote:
>>> Thanks, but I am aware of this. On Wed, after I entered the data, I
>>> re-ran the report, and verified that the checks now showed up.
>>> 
>>> On Friday, the checks were missing again.
>>> 
>>> The only thing I can think of that was different is that I was running
>>> price updates on Tue, Wed, and Thu via gnucash-cli.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:11 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm
>>> <mailto:the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    Good suggestions, Adrien. I have a fourth thought:
>>> 
>>>    We don't know how Losey was doing the "workup", but if it involved a
>>>    report, and some of the relevant transactions were in accounts
>> created
>>>    after the last time the report was saved, then transactions in those
>>>    accounts would not be picked up automatically. In that case, Losey
>>>    should open the saved report configuration, click Edit » Report
>> Options,
>>>    select all relevant accounts, and save the new configuration.
>>> 
>>>    Stan Brown
>>>    Tehachapi, CA, USA
>>>    https://BrownMath.com <https://BrownMath.com>
>>> 
>>>    On 2022-12-30 13:56, Adrien Monteleone 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,
>> 
> 
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