Thanks, John - see interspersed comments below, Regards,
Michael > On 31 Jan 2025, at 17:16, John Ralls <jra...@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.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Version: 5.9 >> Build ID: 5.9+(2024-09-28) >> >> michaelhendry@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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
