[GNC] Found a bug, accounts gone haywire.

[John Ralls]

Michael,

Perhaps you could attach a screenshot showing a register with both credit and debit amounts increasing the account balance. You could use Preview to black out any descriptions you think are sensitive. But first open View>Sort By... and make sure that Standard Order is selected and View>Filter By... and ensure that Show All is selected on the Date tab and all the boxes are ticked on the Status tab.

Have you looked at any backup files, either the time-stamped ones ending in .gnucash (e.g. if your file is my-book.gnucash a backup file might be my-file.gnucash.20221103152719.gnucash) or by restoring with Time Machine?

BTW, the relevant code is mostly in C with a bit of C++ and is available for public view at https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Nov 5, 2022, at 5:02 PM, Michael Davis <michael at damaru.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the responses!
> 
> I’ve been running this version:
> 
> Version: 4.11
> Build ID: 4.11+(2022-06-25)
> 
> for a few months, on an iMac M1, Montery 12.5.1. 
> 
> Yes, I see this in the register window. As well, the Accounts tab that has the tree of accounts, shows that account as having the wrong value $621k.
> 
> I’m considering whether to offer to share my data file with the developers for debugging purposes. There is certainly no banking identifiers such as account numbers in this file, but I need to consider whether a list of transactions in an account called “Checking” would itself pose any security risk.
> 
> I’m a software developer myself and I really wish I had a bit of extra time right now so that I could dig into the code and try to debug it myself. I did take a Lisp course in university.
> 
> cheers
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 4, 2022, at 7:56 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> No. What OS, What Gnucash, any updates to OS or Gnucash lately.  I assume you're seeing this in a register window ??????
>> 
>> Cheers David H.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 09:10, 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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