[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[aga]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:23:44 +0100
Ian Millington <ian at ianmillington.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've tried with both 4.5.2 and 4.5.3 with the same result. It works
> with 1.0.5 though.
> 
> I tried setting KMM to show only transactions from 1/1/2011. No
> difference.
> 

Well, either that indicates that this procedure still reads all
payees/transactions, or that the fault is later that Jan.  You could
try 1 Mar 2011?

> I'm not sure how I would run a transaction report by payee. Do you
> have any guidance on that please?
> 

Select Report/Transactions/Transactions by Payee.  You then get a
wizard allowing you to specify requirements.  Account will probably
have everything selected, as will category and payee.  So just set the
start date to your earliest date.  You'll get a long list per payee of
all transactions.  See what happens, and if anything looks untoward.
Changing start-end dates might help, too.
> Also, I don't know how valid this is but running a consistency check 
> produces the error "consistency check failed - invalid transaction to
> be modified".
>

Now, that is significant.  I didn't ask about that as the check is now
done on every save, and, as I understand it, any error should get
fixed.  I think I was assuming you couldn't save.  When you got that
message, did you continue to save?  Otherwise, you'll continue to
experience the problem, assuming KMM can fix it.

Allan

> I can't get past the fact that 1.0.5 works on this but 4.x.x doesn't.
> Weird!
> 
> On 31/03/11 10:55, aga wrote:
> > 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
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