> On Mar 21, 2020, at 12:53 AM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> Yesterday I ran into this...I was attempting a .QIF import of transactions
> from my credit card company. The import seemed to progress normally, up until
> the "Match Transactions" stage. When it got there, every single one of the
> transactions which I had entered over the past 2+ years appeared in the list.
> I hit the cancel button in the requester, got the "busy" icon...and when
> Gnucash resumed, about ten minutes later, every one of my transactions in
> every account had vanished (with the sole exceptions of customer invoices and
> vendor bills)!
>
> I did have a fairly recent backup file available, so I restored to that and
> tried the import again. The same thing happened a second time.
>
> My NAS keeps track of file history and automatically saves the most recent
> versions every twenty minutes or so, so I do have versions from before and
> after the failed import saved (to a new file under a new name) as well as all
> of my log files. At the time of the import I was running Build ID:
> 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS in a homebuilt machine with AMD
> FX-4100 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and an ASUS M5A88-M motherboard and using the SQLite3
> backend.
>
> I opened a Bugzilla account and reported this (Bug 797651), but as
> reconstructing this may mean sharing my personal financial data I restricted
> the view access to the developer list. I have reconstructed my working
> account file from my backup, so there's been no loss of critical data. I'm
> sharing this for visibility and to ask if there is any additional information
> I should provide in the bug report to facilitate a permanent resolution to
> this problem. Thanks for any advice----Eric.
Chris has already responded to you on the bug report and will ask there for any
additional information he needs.
A general note: I wouldn't trust the view access settings to protect anything,
it's at best security-by-obscurity. If one of us decides he needs to look at
your book he'll provide a direct email address to send it to.
Regards,
John Ralls
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