[GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

[Daine Pearson]

Sadly, no.. those help docs are pretty basic - I have looked at most of 
what can be found in the various docs and generally searching.
I'll probably need to go to the code repository and look for comments or 
something along those lines.

Still would be good to at least confirm that our actions of accessing 
the data file with two app versions was the issue.
It was a pretty devastating number of transactions.

Thanks!

On 2/3/2023 9:11 PM, David H wrote:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
>
> Might give you an explanation of the log files...
>
> Cheers David H.
>
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 10:01, Daine Pearson via gnucash-user 
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I do see a few messages spread over the years about similar issues
>     but
>     most have gone unanswered so I thought I'd create a new one.
>
>     My partner and I have been jointly using GNUcash for a few years. The
>     XML data files reside on a shared network drive.
>     I recently installed a new Win 10 computer and installed the
>     latest (at
>     the time) 4.11.
>     I did not think about the fact that her system was still running
>     3.6 -
>     Probably the culprit...
>     Everything seems to have been going fine but yesterday she noticed
>     all
>     the payments into a credit card account were gone, leaving quite a
>     large
>     negative balance. I looked further and discovered this was true
>     for many
>     accounts but I do not believe any accounts were missing or
>     completely empty.
>     I went into the shared directory and could easily see by the file
>     size
>     that a large data reduction recently occurred as the size suddenly
>     drops
>     from ~900KB to ~600KB.
>     There is also a 17MB (136325 lines) log file in that same time period.
>     Not so much had happened in the few days after that file size drop
>     so I
>     exported some new transactions that had been manually entered in the
>     (corrupted) file and saved one of the earlier files as the new
>     data file.
>     I updated both machines to the latest stable 4.13 build, imported
>     those
>     new transactions and just for kicks, ran the repair function which
>     did
>     not throw any messages so presumably nothing was fixed.
>     Things seem to be fine but it occurred to me that it would be
>     useful if
>     I understood better what the log files actually might reveal and
>     if they
>     also show actions taken by the program?
>     It seems pretty clear that each new transaction generates a log entry
>     but I'm unsure how deletions, moved items, etc., are marked in the
>     logs.
>     I'm guessing the letters in the 'mod' column between Start & End mean
>     something but not sure what.
>
>     I presume and hope that something about managing and saving the same
>     data file under both versions is what caused the mishap but it
>     would be
>     good to understand the situation better so all thoughts welcome.
>
>     And presuming sharing files between different program version is a
>     danger (which it likely is), I guess it would be helpful if
>     opening an
>     account file would trigger a cancel message if it was last saved by a
>     different version, particularly a newer version.
>
>     Thanks... DP
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