PS See below
> On 1 Feb 2025, at 17:35, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> OK, that explains what happened. There should be weekly Time Machine backups
> between 9 November and 22 December. Is 22 December the first one with empty
> Account sections? Does the disappearance of the Account sections correspond
> to any event you can think of, like the first time you used GnuCash 5.10 or
> opening the saved report in the wrong book that you mentioned in your letter
> introducing this thread.
>
> There’s one other thing in that letter that I don’t understand:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Was that a left-over from a previous run of the report?
Yes. I’m not sure if I’d just opened the .gnucash file and GC had reloaded all
the accounts and reports from the last run, or had just switched to an already
open instance of GC from another application.
M
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Jan 31, 2025, at 23:32, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, John,
>>
>> Here are the first few lines from yesterday’s copy of ~/Library/Application
>> Support/Gnucash/saved-reports-2.8
>>
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> ;; Options for saved report "GASDS Report for 2022-2023", based on template
>> "2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f"
>> (let ()
>> (define (options-gen)
>> (let
>> (
>> (options (gnc:report-template-new-options/report-guid
>> "2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f" "Transaction Report"))
>> (new-embedded-report-ids '()) ;; only used with Multicolumn View
>> Reports
>> )
>> ; Section: Accounts
>>
>>
>> ; Section: Currency
>>
>>
>> ; Section: Display
>>
>> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
>> "Display"
>> "Other Account Name")))
>> ((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #f))) option))
>>
>> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
>> "Display"
>> "Subtotal Table")))
>> ((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #t))) option))
>>
>> …and the corresponding section from the Time Machine backup from 9th
>> November (before I had this problem) with the
>>
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> ;; Options for saved report "GASDS Report for 2022-2023", based on template
>> "2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f"
>> (let ()
>> (define (options-gen)
>> (let
>> (
>> (options (gnc:report-template-new-options/report-guid
>> "2fe3b9833af044abb929a88d5a59620f" "Transaction Report"))
>> (new-embedded-report-ids '()) ;; only used with Multicolumn View
>> Reports
>> )
>> ; Section: Accounts
>>
>> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
>> "Accounts"
>> "Accounts")))
>> ((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o
>> '("001a8f370e0741ba9cdee0e2aaa452c4" "09416821e9444360af2c9d248fca1e30"
>> "e5cef64f8abf4802b6e6c9917dd49d1f")))) option))
>>
>>
>> ; Section: Currency
>>
>>
>> ; Section: Display
>>
>> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
>> "Display"
>> "Other Account Name")))
>> ((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #f))) option))
>>
>> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option options
>> "Display"
>> "Subtotal Table")))
>> ((lambda (o) (if o (gnc:option-set-value o #t))) option))
>>
>>
>> Attached is a screenshot of a MacVim split-diff comparing the backup from
>> 9th November with that from 22nd December (after this problem first appeared.
>>
>> I haven’t gone through this with a fine-tooth comb, but the overall
>> impression on scanning through the split-diff screen is that the more recent
>> version (on the left) is missing an Accounts section for all of the reports
>> I’ve created.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> <Screenshot 2025-02-01 at 07.19.29.png>
>
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