[GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

[Michael Hendry]

Thanks, John - see interspersed comments below,

Regards,

Michael

> On 31 Jan 2025, at 17:16, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> We had a possibly related bug report yesterday, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799533. 

Certainly looks similar.

> 
> As for restarting your Mac, heavens no. It’s not running Windows, restarting isn’t likely to do anything useful.

I’ve experienced a number of situations recently where my Mac seized up and the only way I found to get out of it was to shut down.

> 
> What would be useful is figuring out how the account entries got removed, in particular if it was operator error or something GnuCash did on its own. Your Time Machine backups of ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/saved-reports-2.8 might help narrow down when the change happened and you could correlate that—or not—with what books you changed around then.

I’ve managed to get a couple of copies of saved-reports-2.8 from the past few weeks but none of them appears to have entries for Accounts relating to the searches I’m having problems with - but I don’t know what I’m looking for - are the Account names in free text, or are the accounts identified in some other way?

> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>> On Jan 31, 2025, at 03:35, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Version: 5.9
>> Build ID: 5.9+(2024-09-28)
>> 
>> michaelhendry at iMac ~ % uname -a
>> Darwin iMac.local 24.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:02:27 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>> 
>> I’ve been having a recurring problem with variations on this error message:
>> 
>> GASDS Report for 2024-2025:
>> 
>> No accounts selected
>> 
>> This report requires accounts to be selected in the report options.
>> 
>> Edit report options
>> 
>> Sorting / Primary Key : memo
>> General / End Date : absolute . 31/03/2025
>> General / Start Date : absolute . 01/04/2024
>> General / Report name : GASDS Report for 2024-2025
>> Display / Subtotal Table : Enabled
>> Display / Other Account Name : Disabled
>> 
>> This particular report isn’t needed until the end of March, but as the date approaches I use it to report on the amount claimable under the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS). At first I thought that the problem might have been related to a forgotten edit to the account structure, but today I opened the relevant .gnucash file and ran the report - with the above result. 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.
>> 
>> Remembering that I had accidentally run this report on a completely different .gnucash file which doesn’t have the relevant accounts and got the error report, I thought this might in some way have corrupted the report configuration, but I’ve tried this again today, quitting GnuCash in between changes of .gnucash file.
>> 
>> The short-term fix is simply to add the appropriate accounts back into the report, and re-save it, but there’s always the risk that I’ll omit a relevant account.
>> 
>> I haven’t found any reference to this issue on the list, which is not to say it hasn’t been raised before, so I’d be grateful for a steer in the right direction, or advice on further investigation - e.g. would there be any mileage in restarting my iMac between various stages of the testing process I tried (above).
>> 
>> Regards to all,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
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