Sadly, no.. those help docs are pretty basic - I have looked at most of
what can be found in the various docs and generally searching.
I'll probably need to go to the code repository and look for comments or
something along those lines.
Still would be good to at least confirm that our actions of accessing
the data file with two app versions was the issue.
It was a pretty devastating number of transactions.
Thanks!
On 2/3/2023 9:11 PM, David H wrote:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
Might give you an explanation of the log files...
Cheers David H.
On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 10:01, Daine Pearson via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I do see a few messages spread over the years about similar issues
but
most have gone unanswered so I thought I'd create a new one.
My partner and I have been jointly using GNUcash for a few years. The
XML data files reside on a shared network drive.
I recently installed a new Win 10 computer and installed the
latest (at
the time) 4.11.
I did not think about the fact that her system was still running
3.6 -
Probably the culprit...
Everything seems to have been going fine but yesterday she noticed
all
the payments into a credit card account were gone, leaving quite a
large
negative balance. I looked further and discovered this was true
for many
accounts but I do not believe any accounts were missing or
completely empty.
I went into the shared directory and could easily see by the file
size
that a large data reduction recently occurred as the size suddenly
drops
from ~900KB to ~600KB.
There is also a 17MB (136325 lines) log file in that same time period.
Not so much had happened in the few days after that file size drop
so I
exported some new transactions that had been manually entered in the
(corrupted) file and saved one of the earlier files as the new
data file.
I updated both machines to the latest stable 4.13 build, imported
those
new transactions and just for kicks, ran the repair function which
did
not throw any messages so presumably nothing was fixed.
Things seem to be fine but it occurred to me that it would be
useful if
I understood better what the log files actually might reveal and
if they
also show actions taken by the program?
It seems pretty clear that each new transaction generates a log entry
but I'm unsure how deletions, moved items, etc., are marked in the
logs.
I'm guessing the letters in the 'mod' column between Start & End mean
something but not sure what.
I presume and hope that something about managing and saving the same
data file under both versions is what caused the mishap but it
would be
good to understand the situation better so all thoughts welcome.
And presuming sharing files between different program version is a
danger (which it likely is), I guess it would be helpful if
opening an
account file would trigger a cancel message if it was last saved by a
different version, particularly a newer version.
Thanks... DP
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