[GNC] Found a bug, accounts gone haywire.

[Phyllis Bruce]

For what it’s worth, I used MS Money for years, even the sunset edition.  My database became unstable and I saved myself a few times by restoring a backup.  You should certainly have those with GnuCash.

> On Nov 5, 2022, at 2:53 PM, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've not seen this problem (I've been using GnuCash for 6 years, and my
> data files is about 1.6M).
> 
> Have you done a file verification?
> 
> Do you routinely update GnuCash as updates come out?
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 6:10 PM Michael Davis <michael at damaru.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I just joined this group to report this problem. I’ve been using GnuCash
>> for more than 15 years and I’ve never before had a problem with it.
>> 
>> It does have more than 15 years of data in it, the file size is 2.4MB.
>> 
>> When I opened it a couple of days ago, some of the accounts were messed
>> up. For example, I’ve got a liability account for my credit card, the
>> balance should be a credit of a couple of thousand. But now it’s a debit of
>> over 600,000. Looking at the transactions, it starts at zero and adds every
>> transaction as a debit, sort of like this:
>> 
>> 
>> debit | credit  | balance
>>      |         | 0.00
>> 10.00 |         | 10.00
>>      | 20.00   | 30.00
>> …
>>      |         | 621,245.35
>> 
>> 
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>> 
>> thanks
>> Michael Davis
>> Ottawa, Canada
>> 
>> 
>> 
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