[GNC] Found a bug, accounts gone haywire.

[Michael Davis]

Thanks, but what do you mean by file verification? In the Tools menu I found Check and Repair, I ran that but it didn’t help.

cheers
MD

> On Nov 5, 2022, at 3:53 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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