[moneydance] Still crashing on reconcile

[Katie J. Berryhill]

OK, I tried these things and still no dice. I did have APE installed  
with WindowShade (though I hadn't bought it and the demo was expired  
and non-functioning). I got rid of every last bit of APE, restarted,  
and the reconcile crash still happened. Actually, I wasn't expecting  
this to work, as I never installed that on my G5 and the crash is  
happening there (starting immediately after updating Java, as was the  
case on my PowerBook G4).

I was also in the process of updating my SOHO Organizer suite, which  
uses OpenBase (I think there's a bit of Java in there), so I  
completely uninstalled that (including OpenBase), restarted, and the  
crash still happened.

So, I exported my file as an xml (no errors occurred), deleted all  
bits and pieces of MoneyDance, restarted, redownloaded MD, installed  
it, allowed it to update (since it said there was a more recent  
version), opened the xml file, and the crash still happened.

The only good news is that Fred's workaround seemed to work for me,  
so I'm not as up a creek as I thought (thanks, Fred).

Now what?

Katie

On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:00 AM, moneydance-info-request at moneydance.com  
wrote:
>
> Katie, Jim et al - I also had (and have) the crashing on reconcile
> and a related (now closed by Sean) bug on the Search window.
>
> I still have the crashing on my PBG4 (10.4.6 with JSRE4) and am not
> able to complete a reconcile, except as noted below. However, on my
> new Intel iMac, I don't have the crash - just did a reconcile on my
> checking account without problem, even though I tried to induce one.
>
> Sean has indicated that the Unsanity APE or one of the haxies I use
> may been the problem. Since most don't yet work on the Intel chip,
> they aren't enabled. I haven't tried to exclude Moneydance yet, but
> if you use APE and any of Unsanity's haxies (WindowShade, Fruit Menu,
> etc.) you might give it a whirl. I suspect it's something in Apple's
> Java 1.5 implementation on the PPC, but maybe not.
>
> By the way, I get around the reconcile bug by the more tedious method
> of manually checking once (to get the diamond) each cleared
> transaction in the register. Then I save my file (don't want to lose
> that effort). Then I open the reconcile window. If it balances, I
> click Done and Save the file again. Like I said, tedious, but it does
> get around the issue.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Fred D
> ________________________________
> Katie,
>
> You're definitely in one of the most frustrating positions I've seen.
>
> It's a long shot, and I don't remember all of what you've tried,  
> but have
> you tried exporting everything to XML, creating a new MD database, and
> re-importing from the XML file? MD seems to be extremely good about
> maintaining absolutely all data through this manipulation, and if  
> there's a
> problem with corruption in a data structure, possibly that would  
> fix it.
> OTOH, if it crashes during the export, then it's almost certain  
> there's
> corruption in a data structure -- but knowing that might just  
> increase the
> frustration. ;-)
>
> Other thing -- have you tried creating a completely new MD database,
> creating one account, adding a few transactions, and trying to  
> reconcile?
> That would give a big clue as to whether the problem is related to  
> your MD
> installation or to your database.
>
> Sorry if these are repeat suggestions -- as I say, I know you've been
> battling this problem for a long time.
>
> Edward