I suppose there could have been a bug.. GnuCash is supposed to prevent you from exiting if there is unsaved data. However, I suppose there COULD be a way for you to shut down / close GnuCash in a way that prevents it from popping up that dialog box.
-derek On Fri, December 30, 2022 12:46 pm, R Losey wrote: > Yes, I'm well aware of that... I NEVER double-click on the GnuCash files; > I > just bring up GnuCash itself and it uses (I presume) the last file I used, > which is the only one I have. > > So, it wasn't that. On Wed, I did the open on the Mac and they were > missing (I thought that I may have forgotten to enter them, but that's > never happened before for me). Today, I opened GnuCash on Windows and the > transactions were definitely missing. > > The only thing I've done differently is that I've started running the > gnucash command line updater more frequently. I have been running it on > Friday nights, but this week I started running it Tue, Wed, and Thu. Wed > (I think) I ran the update program and went to the latest version. > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:03 AM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > >> Unlikely.. >> >> HOWEVER, one IMPORTANT thing to keep in mind on the Mac is that GnuCash >> does not honor double-clicking on a data file to open /that/ file. When >> you double-click on ANY data file, GnuCash will start and ALWAYS open >> the >> last file you had used.. It doesn't matter WHAT file you clicked on... >> >> If you File -> Save As, then that becomes your new "last used file". >> If you File -> Open, then THAT becomes your new "last used file". >> >> If you need to open a specific file on a Mac, you must ALWAYS use File >> -> >> Open. And then you need to be aware that that is the new "last used >> file" >> and is what GnuCash will open the next time you start it. >> >> -derek >> >> On Fri, December 30, 2022 11:47 am, R Losey wrote: >> > I just had a thought about what may be the cause... I was fooling >> around >> > with the financial quote program on Ubuntu and had run it multiple >> times. >> > Maybe that somehow erased the changes. >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 10:43 AM R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> I was doing preliminary tax workup earlier this week, and (to my >> >> surprise), there were some transactions mentioned that I thought I'd >> >> entered last Friday... (I only noticed because they weren't there in >> the >> >> report I was using). Anyway, I entered them, verified that they >> showed >> >> up >> >> on the report, and went my way. >> >> >> >> This morning, I opened GnuCash to do regular data entry for the week, >> >> and >> >> those same transactions were missing again. >> >> >> >> It was scary... possibly even scarey. >> >> >> >> My first thought was that I had accidentally opened an old version of >> >> the >> >> data file, but it did not appear to be so. My next was that there >> was a >> >> problem between 4.12 and 4.13... I had entered the transactions on >> 4.12 >> >> under MacOs, and was on 4.13 on Windows 10 earlier. >> >> >> >> I re-entered the missing transactions again and closed and >> >> re-opened GnuCash, and they were there, so I'm not sure what >> happened. >> >> >> >> But it was frightening to ponder how many transactions that I didn't >> >> catch >> >> may be missing. >> >> >> >> I'm hoping that I just forgot to save the data file the other day, >> but >> >> that is pretty rare for me. >> >> >> >> I just updated my MacOS GnuCash version to 4.13.... and I ran a file >> >> check >> >> that completed without problems. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> _________________________________ >> >> Richard Losey >> >> rlo...@gmail.com >> >> Micah 6:8 >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > _________________________________ >> > Richard Losey >> > rlo...@gmail.com >> > Micah 6:8 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnucash-user mailing list >> > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > 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. >> > >> >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 >> de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com >> Computer and Internet Security Consultant >> >> > > -- > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Micah 6:8 > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.