[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[aga]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:13:37 +0100
Ian Millington <ian at ianmillington.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Allan
> 
> I exported from both 1.05 and 4.5.3. I've sent you the latter. Here
> with 4.5.3 I can open the anonymous file but cannot edit the payee
> list still. There is no problem with 1.0.5
> 
> On receipt of your message, thinking it might be a config issue, I 
> renamed the rc file in my home directory, but the end result was the 
> same - clicking anywhere in the payee pane (buttons or payee names) 
> causes an instant freeze of the program.
> 
> Don't know if this helps, but I have run KMM in a terminal and here
> is the message. The final lines are when the data file has loaded - 
> clicking in the payee area produces nothing. Does this help?
> 
> Ps this files a bit smaller than the last:-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ian

Hi Ian

Those messages are normal, that is, I get them, too.

I'm on the svn version, so I've now installed the openSuse version,
which is 4.5.2.  This too has no problem with your payees in the anon
file.  I can select, edit and delete them without problem.

So, if I can do this on svn and 4.5.2, and you can't on 4.5.3, that
suggest an incompatibility between 4.5.3 and your file.  If you haven't
already done this, could you try 4.5.2?

Another couple of things you could try first.  If you could open the
config. settings, and then General/Filter, change the year to, say
2011 to exclude earlier details.  See if that might exclude a problem
payee.  If so, try an earlier year, and, if not, try a later month.  If
this makes a difference in any way, you might be able to narrow down to
the problem, although with the number of payees you have, it could be a
bit laborious.

The other way would be to run a Transactions report by payee, and see
if that coughs, or gives any indication of a problem.

A final thing I might be tempted to try, if all else failed, is to
produce an xml file of your real data, and do a search and replace in
it.  It's a bit tricky, for me anyway, but I did succeed in replacing
every payee with a single new payee.  I think you said you would be too
upset to lose your payees?  Very important to save the result with a
new name, to avoid overwriting real data.  If you get to this stage,
let me know!

allan

> On 31/03/11 00:23, aga wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:29:13 +0100
> > Ian Millington<ian at ianmillington.co.uk>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Further to previous I attach an anonymous file - I figured out
> >> how to do it- turn off automatic file extension!
> >>
> >> Hope this helps
> >>
> >> Ian.
> >>
> > Were you able to reproduce the problem with the anon file?
> >
> > Here, the file loads OK and I can select the payees, and use the
> > buttons to delete.
> >
> > Was the file from which it was produced your problem one, or one
> > from KMM2?
> >
> > Allan