[GNC] duplicate transactions exported

[David H]

I found that using 5.0 and exporting txns created a 32 Mb file but in 5.9
only 12.8 Mb.  A quick look didn't show any duplicated txns but I'll have a
more thorough look later.

Cheers David H.


On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 at 08:05, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> OK, upgrading to GC v5.9.1 fixes the problem.  Opening the same *.gnucash
> file and exporting yields only one line per split, as expected.
>
> Apparently, this is not a known issue for earlier versions, but there may
> still be problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Brook
>
> > On Oct 18, 2024, at 3:39 PM, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > See below.
> >
> >> On Oct 18, 2024, at 2:54 PM, Mark at Lorimark <
> mark at lorimarksolutions.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> really odd!
> >
> > Yes, that’s why I’m asking.
> >
> >> Here's what I'd suggest;
> >>
> >> 1. go in to your register 'assets:bank'
> >> 2. edit only 1 row
> >> 3. change the 'dollars' to some other number
> >> 4. re-export your data
> >
> > No change.  There are still the same duplicate records after doing this.
> >
> >> My expectation; two of those lines would change (one line for each
> >> side/split)
> >
> > Yes, my expectation too.
> >
> >> The export file looks totally wrong.  It is showing the same transaction
> >> ID for each and every line, and that's just totally wrong.  I'd like to
> >> look at your file directly, if you're interested.  I'm very curious!
> >
> > In this case there actually are 4 splits, so my expectation is that
> there should be 4 lines with the same transaction ID.  The problem is that
> each of the 4 distinct lines is replicated a total of 3 times.
> >
> > As a check, I created a new book and imported the unique set of
> transactions from the first (i.e., the exported file sorted with “sort -u”)
> and re-exported the transactions.  That set still had the duplicates.
> Thus, there must be something about the export process that is creating
> duplicates.
> >
> > Is this a known issue?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brook
> >
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