Our primary concern in this release is document stability. In addition to safeguards to protect your data’s integrity, we’ve created options to repair damaged documents and restore the most recent automatic backup. Did you know CheckBook makes automatic backups about once a week? It does! But…please…use Time Machine or another solution to backup everything in case of a catastrophic hardware malfunction. We’ve thrown in some minor tweaks all around,plusa fix for the issue preventing previous versions from opening properly on the OS X 10.11 El Capitan public beta.

What’s new?

In CheckBook 2.5.7

New features:

• Now you can skip any number of rows when importing CSV or tab-delimited text.

Fixes:

• Resolves a pesky delay when entering data in split line items.
• Provides more consistent automatic check numbering.
• Prevents a hang or crash when managing subcategories.
• More reliably remembers the last date you entered when you reopen a document.
• Does a better job locating documents from older versions during a software update.
• Minor automatic backup fixes
• Minor user interface adjustments and performance enhancements.

In CheckBook Pro 2.5.7

New features:

• Now you can skip any number of rows when importing CSV or tab-delimited text.

Fixes:

• Resolves a pesky delay when entering data in split line items.
• Provides more consistent automatic check numbering.
• Corrects a potential issue where text in the All Accounts Search field may spontaneously combust.
• More reliably remembers the last date you entered when you reopen a document.
• Resolves a potential issue in All Accounts where Search and Smart Folder settings may be ignored when Entries are voided or duplicated.
• Does a better job locating documents from older versions during a software update
• Minor automatic backup fixes.
• Minor user interface adjustments and performance enhancements.

Get the Update

If you purchased from the Mac App Store, open the Mac App Store app and click the Updates button at the top of the window. Be sure you’re signed in with the same Apple ID you used for your original purchase.

CheckBook 2.5.7:http://splasm.com/checkbook/update.html

CheckBook Pro 2.5.7:http://splasm.com/checkbookpro/update.html

After You Install

The first time you launch the application, you may be asked to update or upgrade your document. Agree to the update and your document will be ready to work with 2.5.7.

If you see a message about a damaged document, please visithttp://www.splasmata.com/?p=2855for details.

If you open the application and your data doesn’t immediately appear, try going to the File menu, down to the Open Recent submenu, and clicking each document there until your data appears. If this doesn’t cure all,don’t panic. Get in touch atsupport@splasm.comso we can help out!

Have you seen a message in CheckBook or CheckBook Pro about a damaged document or a damaged database? Don’t panic. We can help you with that. Please read the rest of this post for details and how to proceed.

First, unless you’ve been using version 2.5.7 or later for some time, we’re almost positive the damage occurred while you were using an olderversion of CheckBook or CheckBook Pro. We’ll explain why andhow the current version won’t let you down in the same way, but we feel it’s very important for you to know that damaging your document is not the very first thing 2.5.7 will do. It’s trying to do exactly the opposite.

In versions 2.5 to 2.5.5, CheckBook and CheckBook Pro weren’t able to detect and tell their user about all the forms of damage that could happen to one of their documents. This sometimes led to situations where a document became damaged but was still almost usable, and sometimes the application would let you continue using the document without telling you. This would go on for days or weeks without you knowing the damage was done, until you hit a point where the document just couldn’t be used anymoreand you’deither contact us for help or throw the app out the window.

Thank you for not throwing the app out the window.

We’re responsible for not telling you your document was damaged as soon as possibleand we apologize for the grief we caused. To ensure this won’t happen again, and to repair your document in many cases, we made some very serious improvements in version 2.5.7:

• We reworked the way CheckBook and CheckBook Pro store your data to be sure that some forms of damage just can’t happen at all.
• We gave CheckBook and CheckBook Pro the ability to tell you when your document is damaged. You might see a scary message about damage immediately upon upgrading from previous versions but don’t panic. Keep reading.
• We taught CheckBook and CheckBook Pro how to repair some forms of damage that occurred in previous versions, and if the damage can’t be repaired, how to restore the most recent fully-functional automatic backup.

If you see a message about a damaged document when you open CheckBook or CheckBook Pro 2.5.7, look at the buttons below the message. If you see an option to repair the document, try it. If the document can’t be repaired and you’re given the option to restore a backup, try it. If at any point you see a bunch of errors about the database, click the OK button, quit and open CheckBookagain, and try restoring instead of repairing. If you feel overwhelmed by errors and need a hand sorting it out, click the Send to Splasm… button below the errors so we can have a look and help out. We’d be happy to!

One thing about restoring an automatic backup: The older the backup, the more things won’t be quite the way you left them. Any Entries you created since the backup was made won’t be there – and neither will any Scheduled Entries you might have committed. So you might notice some Entries are missing or Scheduled Entries you already committed appear in the Schedule Reminder. We wish there was a way around it but that’s just how it works when you restore an older version of your data.

Thank you again for allowing us to explain the changes we’ve made in CheckBook and CheckBook Pro 2.5.7. Your support is paramount and we’re committed todoing our best to return that support in kind when you need it. Please get in touch at support@splasm.com if you need any additional details.