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Might give you an explanation of the log files... Cheers David H. On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 10:01, Daine Pearson via gnucash-user < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I do see a few messages spread over the years about similar issues but > most have gone unanswered so I thought I'd create a new one. > > My partner and I have been jointly using GNUcash for a few years. The > XML data files reside on a shared network drive. > I recently installed a new Win 10 computer and installed the latest (at > the time) 4.11. > I did not think about the fact that her system was still running 3.6 - > Probably the culprit... > Everything seems to have been going fine but yesterday she noticed all > the payments into a credit card account were gone, leaving quite a large > negative balance. I looked further and discovered this was true for many > accounts but I do not believe any accounts were missing or completely > empty. > I went into the shared directory and could easily see by the file size > that a large data reduction recently occurred as the size suddenly drops > from ~900KB to ~600KB. > There is also a 17MB (136325 lines) log file in that same time period. > Not so much had happened in the few days after that file size drop so I > exported some new transactions that had been manually entered in the > (corrupted) file and saved one of the earlier files as the new data file. > I updated both machines to the latest stable 4.13 build, imported those > new transactions and just for kicks, ran the repair function which did > not throw any messages so presumably nothing was fixed. > Things seem to be fine but it occurred to me that it would be useful if > I understood better what the log files actually might reveal and if they > also show actions taken by the program? > It seems pretty clear that each new transaction generates a log entry > but I'm unsure how deletions, moved items, etc., are marked in the logs. > I'm guessing the letters in the 'mod' column between Start & End mean > something but not sure what. > > I presume and hope that something about managing and saving the same > data file under both versions is what caused the mishap but it would be > good to understand the situation better so all thoughts welcome. > > And presuming sharing files between different program version is a > danger (which it likely is), I guess it would be helpful if opening an > account file would trigger a cancel message if it was last saved by a > different version, particularly a newer version. > > Thanks... DP > _______________________________________________ > 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.
