I guess you didn't read what I wrote.  So, let me say it again (via the
magic of copy/paste):

"I was right-clicking on a transaction in the right (credit) column.  It
was already highlighted, and there was no other transaction highlighted.
The right-click context menu appeared alongside the mouse pointer which was
positioned on the highlighted credit transaction.  From that menu I
selected and confirmed the delete of the highlighted credit transaction.  A
debit transaction was deleted instead."

Reverting to a backup after doing as much work as I had leading up to that
reconciliation in that session would have been a multitude of times more
painful.  Bad stuff always happens after lots of other stuff has happened -
Murphy's Law.  The backup is for truly catastrophic stuff, or maybe if
you're just lucky and haven't done anything else yet.

This is hardly and interface error.  And checking the 4.13 change log
reveals nothing addressing this or any related reconciliation bug.  The
known issues list doesn't even identify it.  I don't think it's on anyone's
radar.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 4:28 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:

> That sounds like a GTK bug. You were raising a context menu on what was
> selected, not where the mouse pointer was located. If you had a line in
> the left pane selected, that is what got deleted.
>
> Maybe reverting to a backup file and making it your main file would be
> in order for restoring your books to a sane state then starting the
> reconciliation over.
>
> As for the bug, I suppose you can file it, but I wouldn't be surprised
> if it is a GTK rather than GnuCash problem.
>
> But before you do, try GnuCash 4.13 first. I think the GTK version was
> just bumped on that release.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 12/29/22 3:36 PM, Thomas Forrester wrote:
> > I was reconciling several credit card statements for the same card and
> had
> > noticed that a subscription payment I had set up as an automatic entry
> was
> > showing up even though I had canceled the subscription.  Clearly, I
> hadn't
> > discontinued the automatic transaction entry in GnuCash.  I ignored
> several
> > of the subscription transactions while reconciling, but then I thought I
> > might as well just delete them in the Reconcile screen since you can
> > right-click and delete transactions right there.  With the first ot 3 of
> > the transactions highlighted, I right-clicked on it and selected
> delete.  I
> > clicked OK to the confirmation message affirming I was sure I wanted to
> > delete the transaction. I rather mindlessly repeated that action a couple
> > of times, then realized the transactions weren't deleting.  Much to my
> > horror, I realized transactions on the left (debit) column for the
> > reconciliation was getting shorter, not the right (credit) column where
> the
> > highlighted item I was trying to delete was.
> >
> > Again, I'm going to stress this: I was right-clicking on a transaction in
> > the right (credit) column.  It was already highlighted, and there was no
> > other transaction highlighted.  The right-click context menu appeared
> > alongside the mouse pointer which was positioned on the highlighted
> credit
> > transaction.  From that menu I selected and confirmed the delete of the
> > highlighted credit transaction.  A debit transaction was deleted instead.
> >
> > Obviously, this is not correct behavior.
> >
> > This is GnuCash 4.11 Build ID: 4.11+(2022-06-25) using a MariaDB backend.
>
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