Thank you Jim! On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jack: > > On 2024-01-11 09:11, Jack Slater wrote: > > 90 minutes of reconciling down the drain with a crash near the end of the > > final account.... > My commiserations. Yes, it is maddening to lose 90 minutes of work when > the tech decides to fail you. > > ... Oddly, even though GnuC auto saves periodically, it seems > > none of any add/delete/balance transactions were saved in any account! > Why > > would that be???? > > I can think of several interesting directions you could take this thread: > > Why didn't GnuCash seem to preserve any of the changes in my 90 minutes > of work? > > How can I change my workflow so that I lose less work when the tech > decides to fail me? > > How can I improve the way I write message to this list, so that I get > more helpful answers? > > How can I stop these tech failures from happening? > > On that last point, I can offer two concrete suggestions: > > 1. GnuCash has a "Check and Repair" feature which is useful to try when > you are concerned about "rogue" transactions and such. Try going to the > Accounts tab of the main window, and select menu item Actions -- Check > and Repair -- Repair All. This menu is described a little in the GnuCash > manual, section 4.2.1.4. "Account Tree - Actions Menu", at > < > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/gui-acct-tree.html#AccTree-actions-menu > >. > > 2. The text in your "Entry Point Not Found" dialogue, which GnuCash > displays when it crashes, has been discussed on this list recently. It > is described in a bug report at > <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799170>. It is suspected to be > problem from GnuCash 5.4 leaving pieces behind when GnuCash 5.5 > installs. There is a workaround there: > > a. Use the File Explorer to open "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\" > > b. If there is a file named "libxmlsec1.dll" present, but no file named > "libxmlsec.dll", then rename file "libxmlsec1.dll" to the name > "libxmlsec.dll" (without the trailing "1"). > > I do not use GnuCash on Windows, so I have no experience with this > problem. I only know what I read. If you ask this list directly about > how to work around this bug, Windows users may be able to give you > better help. > > I hope this helps, > —Jim DeLaHunt > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
