Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there is a transaction that has a cost of 5000, and you have shares with a price of 0, that may be causing it to think there is an imbalance, and thus the transactions get added?
On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 7:09 AM Chris Grinton <cgrin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi GnuCashers, > > I have a strange situation where a transaction is automagically (and > unexpectedly) getting splits added to it against the "Orphan-<currency>" > and "Imbalance-<currency>" accounts when my GnuCash data file is closed and > reopened. I can't work out why these splits are getting added, and would > love any insights that people might have on how to stop it from happening. > > The unexpected behavior here appears to be somehow related to having > trading accounts enabled, and a consequence of changing the namespace of a > security. > > Here are steps I do to reproduce this problem: > > 1. Create a transaction as follows: > Expenses:Realised capital losses DR 5000 > Assets:Stock account CR > 5000 (with shares & price = 0) > > This appears in GnuCash as per the following screenshot: > > [image: image.png] > > No change occurs to this transaction as long as I keep the GnuCash file > open. > > 2. Edit the UNLISTED:ACME security, and change its namespace. For example, > change the namespace from "UNLISTED" to "UNLISTED2". > > 3. Open a different GnuCash file (or close GnuCash), and then open the > original file again. The act of opening the file appears to cause the > transaction to be updated with additional splits to read as follows: > > Expenses:Realised capital losses DR 5000 > * Orphan-AUD DR 5000* > Assets:Stock account CR > 5000 (with shares & price = 0) > * Imbalance-AUD CR > 5000* > > Here's a screenshot showing this: > [image: image.png] > > 4. If I delete the Orphan & Imbalance splits, they continue to reappear > every time I reopen the GnuCash file. > > I have not seen this behavior occurring for securities that have not had a > namespace change, but is reliably reproducible for securities that have had > a namespace change. > > I'm using GnuCash 4.8 on Windows with a SQLite data file. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Chris > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
