thanks Chris will run some test this evening.

Chris Travers wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2007 11:15 PM, Mark Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I don't know about others but the various bugs in ledger-smb have
>     caused
>     the system to go out of balance. Often the total per a chart
>     account does
>     not agree to the detail underlying the account. i.e if one looks
>     at the
>     balance on  the TB and then drills down to the detail the account
>     amounts
>     are different.
>
>
> There were some bugs early in the 1.2.x series which could cause this 
> because part of a transaction would roll back.  To my knowledge these 
> have all been fixed for some time, but if you are still seeing new 
> instances, we need to track them down as any such bugs are considered 
> serious.
>  
>
>
>
>     In my case this was caused by the often reported problem with AP
>     Vendor
>     Invoice deletions or editing and reposting of AP invoices. It
>     seems this
>     is still not fixed. Here is what I do to get things back in
>     balance. (I
>     hope I am not making things worse!)
>
>     Please backup your database and test this first. Let me know if I am
>     missing something.
>
>     1) First you need to find the transactions in acc_trans which are
>     supposed
>     to be AP transaction but have no corresponding entries in the ap
>     table. I
>     don't have a copy of the query I ran now but it should be
>     something like
>
>     Select tran_id from acc_trans
>     left join ap on acc_trans.trans_id = ap.trans_id
>     where chart_id = (id for purchase account from chart table) where
>     invoiceid is not null and ap.id <http://ap.id> is null
>
>     This should give you all AP entries in acc_trans not in ap.
>
>
>
> I would do it differently:
> SELECT trans_id FROM acc_trans WHERE trans_id NOT IN
> (SELECT id FROM ap
> UNION
> SELECT id FROM ar
> UNION
> SELECT id FROM gl
> )
> GROUP BY trans_id;
>
> Your way may cause issues if GL entries hit the AP account.
>  
> Also you can try the same with invoice (with just the ap and ar tables)
>
> I would also do a SELECT INTO before doing the delete.  This way if 
> you need to check on some data later,  the data is still there.,
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
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