[GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

[Michael Hendry]

Any progress on this bug report?

I reported a method by which I can reliably reproduce this behaviour a week ago, and am happy to investigate further given some guidance as to what would be helpful.

Michael

> On 2 Feb 2025, at 20:52, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> The reporter on bug 799533 made an important discovery: He had restored his saved-reports-2.8 from a backup and then changed and saved one of them, adding an account. That *one* saved correctly but all of the others saved with no accounts and no other changes.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>> On Feb 2, 2025, at 00:00, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> PS See below
>> 
>>> On 1 Feb 2025, at 17:35, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Michael,
>>> 
>>> OK, that explains what happened.  There should be weekly Time Machine backups between 9 November and 22 December. Is 22 December the first one with empty Account sections? Does the disappearance of the Account sections correspond to any event you can think of, like the first time you used GnuCash 5.10  or opening the saved report in the wrong book that you mentioned in your letter introducing this thread.
>>> 
>>> There’s one other thing in that letter that I don’t understand:
>>>   
>>>> 
>>>>  I closed a few accounts, and I realised that a full report with all the current information had been drawn into view from the right hand side of the screen, coexisting with the above error report.
>>> 
>>> Was that a left-over from a previous run of the report?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes. I’m not sure if I’d just opened the .gnucash file and GC had reloaded all the accounts and reports from the last run, or had just switched to an already open instance of GC from another application. 
>> M
> 
>> On Feb 1, 2025, at 14:56, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com <mailto:hendry.michael at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I’ve hunted through Time Machine, and having found only four backed-up copies of saved-reports-2.8, dated:
>> 
>> 9 Nov 2024 (Has UUIDS in the Accounts section)
>> 4 Dec 2024 (Has UUIDS in the Accounts section)
>> 22 Dec 2024 (Accounts Section empty)
>> 23 January 2025 (Accounts Section empty)
>> 
>> I can’t be sure exactly when I first encountered the “No accounts selected” error message when I ran the GASDS report, nor its timing in relation to my upgrade to 5.9 - I haven’t yet moved on to 5.10. GC says the Build ID is 5.9+(2024-09-28), but it’ quite possible I didn’t install 5.9 until mid-December.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael