[moneydance] data file corruption

[Gordon Alley]

I just wanted to relate this incident to the list in case it's not just me.

I'm using Moneydance 2007 build 566 on an iMac G4 800 with 1GB RAM and
6.5 GB of free space on my 60 GB internal drive.

I had entered a few credit card transactions. Then I added a 19
securty SELL transactions that I had made earlier in the day. I had 4
BUY transactions to add for new securities. I used the Add Security
button to add the 4 new securities. But the Add Security dialog did
not go away after the last security was added. After clicking around
trying to get some response from MD, eventually I got the spinning
beach ball indicating that MD had stopped responding. I had to Force
Quit MD.

After returning to the Finder, I discovered that the Dock seemed to
have quit (I have it set to auto-hide, and it wouldn't un-hide). I
logged out and back in to get things back to normal again.

When I tried to open my MD file, MD asked me if I'd like to open the
more-recent backup file, and I told it to do so. But, to my chagrin,
after a short delay I was presented with an alert that said "Error:
Cannot read file: java.io.EOFException". Also, when I look at the
files, the backup is about half the size of yesterday's file. Doesn't
look good!

So I guess I'm going to have to re-enter all those transactions again. Arghhh!

I think I'll reboot and run Applejack to let it check out the disk
before continuing, though.

-- 
Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com