Got it. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Regards, Adrien > On Jan 16, 2019, at 8:33 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Ah. I understand where we are disconnecting. > > 1. Gnucash truncated my reports file upon saving any new reports. > 2. I exited Gnucash and upon reopening found that two thirds of my reports > were no longer there. > 3. I exited Gnucash again, and verified in the OS that the file was much > smaller, opened the file in a text editor and verified that hundreds of lines > were gone. > 4. I deleted this truncated file and copied back in the original reports file > from a backup. > > So, long story short, the errant report was (probably) causing Gnucash to > truncate the file if I asked it to save a report. > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:14, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > 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. > 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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