I understand what you mean by they were ‘gone’ because Gnucash couldn’t read the remainder of the file. But does opening saved-reports-2.8 in a text editor (something like Atom, Gedit, vi, emacs, etc.) show the subsequent reports still defined there? (warning, I think this file is in Scheme, but you can do a find on your report names)
I can’t fathom how removing an errant report magically un-truncated a file. If the data was gone, it was gone. But if Gnucash simply couldn’t read it past a certain point, though the report definitions were still there, that would make sense. (what is perplexing is why the OS would report a different file size) Or did you simply restore a 2.8 backup or a saved-reports-2.4 version and remove the offending report to ‘recover' the lost reports? I wasn’t quite clear in my understanding there. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:03 PM, D <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Adrien, > > It's not merely a case of the OS reporting the wrong file size; the file was > in fact truncated. Reports were gone. > > It's more likely that something in the particular report was causing Gnucash > to discard the data before saving. I say this because Gnucash consistently > put the original file into saved-reports-2.4-backup. All 182kb of it. > > David > > On January 17, 2019, at 2:07 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > David, > > I’ve seen that very strange issue happen on two other occasions, once with a > mailbox file and once with an XML file. I can’t fathom why the OS reports > less data than is really there as it shouldn’t care if the file is malformed > or not to the filetype’s specifications when it reports total size on disk. > I’ve seen this on both Linux and Mac. (I never tested those files on Windows > to see if that OS would do the same) This might be some sort of bug related > to how files are split up on disk, or if such file errors result in an errant > change to the file table entry, (FAT, journal, etc.) I dunno. > > Unfortunately, I no longer remember the exact issues, but certainly, > correcting the text in the file in my cases, (I could load the entire file in > a text editor) restored access to my data and got the OS to report the real > file size. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Jan 16, 2019, at 10:54 AM, David T. via gnucash-user >> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> Geert and others, >> >> I would like to follow up on the issues I raised earlier. >> >> First off, the crashing upon saving the report has gone away. I have no idea >> why. >> >> As for the saved-reports truncation issue, after a break from all of this, I >> returned to do some tinkering around. Repeated efforts to modify a few of my >> reports for the latest version of the Transaction Report yielded the same >> results: my saved-reports file was truncated at 32kb. >> >> I began the process of trying to document all 56 saved reports in my file >> (including trying to remove outdated ones) so that I could wipe the slate >> clean and start over again. A third of the way through, I ran into a report >> that was embedded in a multicolumn report which was not yielding expected >> results. This report would only return a cryptic error message. My >> suspicions aroused, I removed the report from the multicolumn report, saved >> the multicolumn report, closed, and then reopened GnuCash. >> >> All my reports were still there, and further edits on saved reports did not >> truncate the saved-reports file. >> >> I’m not certain, but I wonder whether there is an issue in the multicolumn >> report code—to wit, I see that the entries for each section appear to be >> based on other reports, and I wonder what would happen if I were to remove >> the stored report upon which that section is built? >> >> Anyhow, it appears that the truncation issue had to do with this erroneous >> saved report. I have no idea what could have fixed the crasher. >> >> Cheers, >> David >> >>> On Dec 29, 2018, at 9:31 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi David, >>> >>> A very disturbing situation to be in. >>> >>> I think the first step is to narrow down the possible issues. >>> >>> Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 16:18:43 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-user: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> As the subject line notes, I am again encountering a crasher in GnuCash 3.3 >>>> on MacOS Mojave when I try to save a report configuration for a report >>>> whose settings have changed. Upon restart, I find that the saved reports >>>> have been trashed, and the saved-reports-2.8 file is truncated at a >>>> fraction of its prior size. >>>> >>>> Further specifics: I am opening a saved report which is intended to >>>> document >>>> a small subset of expense accounts. I have added a new subaccount to this >>>> set of expenses, and I wish to add this new subaccount to the existing >>>> saved report. I open the report (Reports->Saved Report Configurations) and >>>> then select the options for the report. I click to the Accounts tab, add >>>> the new account (CMD-Click) and click save. The new version of the report >>>> now displays. I click on the “Save Report Configuration” button, and >>>> GnuCash disappears. There is no further information displayed (i.e., I do >>>> not receive an Apple message about the program ending unexpectedly, etc.). >>>> Neither does it appear that there is a crash report; the only crash I can >>>> find regarding GnuCash dates from 12/18, and today is not 12/18. >>>> >>> When this happens is there anything in the trace file ? >>> >>>> More disturbingly, when I reopen GnuCash, I find that my Saved Report >>>> Configurations file has been truncated, resulting in a loss of most of my >>>> reports. (Because I’ve had similar troubles with GnuCash trashing my >>>> reports file, I have copies of saved-reports-2.8 stored in safe spots.) The >>>> saved-reports-2.8 file goes from 182 kb to 34 kb. Upon restart, I have only >>>> 7 saved reports. >>>> >>> So some of them are still in there ? Is the last one that's still there >>> completely stored in the saved reports file ? And what's the first report >>> that's not saved ? Do you see anything particular about this one ? >>> >>> What if you remove this first report that's not saved from your original >>> saved >>> reports file (after making a proper backup of course) and restore this >>> manually edited file. Can you now save your new report correctly ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Geert >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> 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 > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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