I haven't needed to do a reconciliation yet since this thread started, but perhaps in the next few days.
In the meantime, I didn't even realize that you could right click split lines in that screen and do things. If that works successfully, wonderful. I have always used the menu to navigate to the transaction in the register view and perform my edits there. Finally, I subscribe to the theory to save a backup just before starting any significant activity such as a reconciliation or import. That is one reason I am not using a database file format and I won't until the application has a way to undo several recent actions. My cat does occasionally walk across the keyboard. On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:47 PM Thomas Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess you didn't read what I wrote. So, let me say it again (via the > magic of copy/paste): > > "I was right-clicking on a transaction in the right (credit) column. It > was already highlighted, and there was no other transaction highlighted. > The right-click context menu appeared alongside the mouse pointer which was > positioned on the highlighted credit transaction. From that menu I > selected and confirmed the delete of the highlighted credit transaction. A > debit transaction was deleted instead." > > Reverting to a backup after doing as much work as I had leading up to that > reconciliation in that session would have been a multitude of times more > painful. Bad stuff always happens after lots of other stuff has happened - > Murphy's Law. The backup is for truly catastrophic stuff, or maybe if > you're just lucky and haven't done anything else yet. > > This is hardly and interface error. And checking the 4.13 change log > reveals nothing addressing this or any related reconciliation bug. The > known issues list doesn't even identify it. I don't think it's on anyone's > radar. > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 4:28 PM Adrien Monteleone < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > That sounds like a GTK bug. You were raising a context menu on what was > > selected, not where the mouse pointer was located. If you had a line in > > the left pane selected, that is what got deleted. > > > > Maybe reverting to a backup file and making it your main file would be > > in order for restoring your books to a sane state then starting the > > reconciliation over. > > > > As for the bug, I suppose you can file it, but I wouldn't be surprised > > if it is a GTK rather than GnuCash problem. > > > > But before you do, try GnuCash 4.13 first. I think the GTK version was > > just bumped on that release. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > On 12/29/22 3:36 PM, Thomas Forrester wrote: > > > I was reconciling several credit card statements for the same card and > > had > > > noticed that a subscription payment I had set up as an automatic entry > > was > > > showing up even though I had canceled the subscription. Clearly, I > > hadn't > > > discontinued the automatic transaction entry in GnuCash. I ignored > > several > > > of the subscription transactions while reconciling, but then I thought > I > > > might as well just delete them in the Reconcile screen since you can > > > right-click and delete transactions right there. With the first ot 3 > of > > > the transactions highlighted, I right-clicked on it and selected > > delete. I > > > clicked OK to the confirmation message affirming I was sure I wanted to > > > delete the transaction. I rather mindlessly repeated that action a > couple > > > of times, then realized the transactions weren't deleting. Much to my > > > horror, I realized transactions on the left (debit) column for the > > > reconciliation was getting shorter, not the right (credit) column where > > the > > > highlighted item I was trying to delete was. > > > > > > Again, I'm going to stress this: I was right-clicking on a transaction > in > > > the right (credit) column. It was already highlighted, and there was > no > > > other transaction highlighted. The right-click context menu appeared > > > alongside the mouse pointer which was positioned on the highlighted > > credit > > > transaction. From that menu I selected and confirmed the delete of the > > > highlighted credit transaction. A debit transaction was deleted > instead. > > > > > > Obviously, this is not correct behavior. > > > > > > This is GnuCash 4.11 Build ID: 4.11+(2022-06-25) using a MariaDB > backend. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. 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