Crash on Transaction deletion

[Jack]

On 2018.05.02 11:33, Joe Harrington wrote:
> KMyMoney
> Version 4.8.1
> Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.60
> ---
> Windows 10 Pro
> Version 1709
> OS Build 16299.371
> 
> 
> I am in the midst of converting from Quicken to KMyMoney.
> The system is not recognizing duplicates resulting from split  
> transactions (I understand and actually expected this).
> But this requires me to delete a number of transactions after  
> importing them.
> Suddenly about half way through the process multiple deletions cause  
> KMyMoney to crash. The windows message is not very informative.
> Very rarely it seems to crash on a single deletion, but this may be a  
> cumulative event. I have tried deleting them one at a time, it works  
> for a while before crashing.
> 
> Any suggestions? I suspect it may have something to do with file size  
> because it did not crash until about half way through the import  
> process. I am importing one account at a time.
> My first attempt was to import the entire Quicken file, but that  
> resulting in chaos, so I created a new file and started over.
> 
> *.kmy file is only about 1.5mb at this time.
> 
> Joe Harrington
Joe,

First, please start a new conversation with a new message.  Replying to  
an old message, even if you change the subject can confuse mail readers  
which thread conversations - in my case, your message was indented  
under the one you replied to.   Some people could therefore miss your  
message if they were ignoring the older topic.

On your crash, I'm not sure about the cause, but I doubt it is simply  
the size of your kmy file, although there were a number of crashes that  
have been fixed since 4.8.1.  Unfortunately, 5.0 is not yet available  
for Windows.  (I may post a separate message suggesting that Windows  
users could get 5.0 by either running Linux inside a VirtualBox  
instance, or by using Cygwin.)  Do you get any sort of error, or does  
the program just disappear when it crashes?

My suggestion for now is just to save early and often.  That way, even  
if you do crash, you will only have a small number of actions you need  
to repeat after restarting.  Also, if you can launch KMyMoney from a  
command prompt, you might also get some more useful information about  
the cause of the crash, but I don't actually know how easy or hard that  
might be.

Jack