[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

David H hellvee at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 18:03:35 EDT 2023


Still sitting on 5.1 because of this issue, Keep us posted on what you
think is happening.

Thanks David H.


On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 06:56, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:07 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> > On 6/30/23 10:31 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > > On 6/30/23 6:04 AM, David H wrote:
> > >> I've just reverted to 5.1 on both MacOS and Windows because I have
> > >> found it
> > >> more time consuming to manually type the full description on 3 or 4
> > split
> > >> lines that I've used previously in the same txn type.
> > >
> > > If indeed this is the case, that will be a major bummer for me. I put
> > > lots of detail in my Memos and I heavily re-use descriptions for
> > > often-bought items. I just upgraded and am behind on entering receipts,
> > > so I suppose I'm about to find out...
> >
> > Indeed, autofill/suggest for memos is now gone! I'm having to type
> > everything out again even though some of these have been entered dozens
> > of times in this register, for this same 'Description' even. (Register
> > always mattered, but I don't think that 'Description' ever mattered
> > before with respect to memo fill/suggest, but I could be mistaken) It is
> > like I'm back to square one - years ago.
> >
> > I'm about to find out if the amnesia is permanent, or just long-term
> > memory loss but newly typed memos get remembered and suggested.
> >
>
> I've noticed this as well; I think it was just reset (possibly as part of
> the fixes for the main auto-fill/auto-match). I know that old ones don't
> match; I haven't taken the effort to see if matches persist after saving,
> closing, and re-opening GnuCash... put another way, I have had some
> Descriptions autofill, but I don't remember if they were the ones entered
> in the current session.
>
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