I understand about security; I'm going to upload my GPG public key to the bug report (and it should be attached to this email reply) and I ask that any request which may involve personal data be encrypted accordingly both ways.
--------Eric H. Bowen e...@ehbowen.net <mailto:e...@ehbowen.net> On 3/21/2020 11:20 AM, John Ralls wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2020, at 12:53 AM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user >> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> Yesterday I ran into this...I was attempting a .QIF import of transactions >> from my credit card company. The import seemed to progress normally, up >> until the "Match Transactions" stage. When it got there, every single one of >> the transactions which I had entered over the past 2+ years appeared in the >> list. I hit the cancel button in the requester, got the "busy" icon...and >> when Gnucash resumed, about ten minutes later, every one of my transactions >> in every account had vanished (with the sole exceptions of customer invoices >> and vendor bills)! >> >> I did have a fairly recent backup file available, so I restored to that and >> tried the import again. The same thing happened a second time. >> >> My NAS keeps track of file history and automatically saves the most recent >> versions every twenty minutes or so, so I do have versions from before and >> after the failed import saved (to a new file under a new name) as well as >> all of my log files. At the time of the import I was running Build ID: >> 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS in a homebuilt machine with AMD >> FX-4100 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and an ASUS M5A88-M motherboard and using the SQLite3 >> backend. >> >> I opened a Bugzilla account and reported this (Bug 797651), but as >> reconstructing this may mean sharing my personal financial data I restricted >> the view access to the developer list. I have reconstructed my working >> account file from my backup, so there's been no loss of critical data. I'm >> sharing this for visibility and to ask if there is any additional >> information I should provide in the bug report to facilitate a permanent >> resolution to this problem. Thanks for any advice----Eric. > Chris has already responded to you on the bug report and will ask there for > any additional information he needs. > > A general note: I wouldn't trust the view access settings to protect > anything, it's at best security-by-obscurity. If one of us decides he needs > to look at your book he'll provide a direct email address to send it to. > > Regards, > John Ralls >
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