[moneydance] Still crashing on reconcile

[Fred Dalzell]

Katie - good to hear the workaround at least helps a little. As to  
next, I suspect there is an incompatibility in the latest Java update  
from Apple for PPC systems. As I noted, it works fine on my Intel  
iMac (sorry:().

I suggest you add to one of the Trac bug reports for Moneydance and  
maybe Sean can figure out what's up. You may also want to check the  
Apple discussion groups (I haven't) for any other ideas and maybe  
file a report with Apple.

Good luck,

Fred D.


On Jun 20, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Katie J. Berryhill wrote:

> 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
>
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