[GNC] Found a bug, accounts gone haywire.

[David Carlson]

Over the years my most serious problems with GnuCash or even other programs
like office or spreadsheets have often been traced to hardware problems
like running out of hard drive space or RAM, etc.  It's worth trying to
eliminate such possibilities while you still have good backups off line.

On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 7:12 PM Michael Davis <michael at damaru.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Micah 6:8
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