The Trouble with Open Source Software
I had been using a check writer of my own design using Apache's Open Office with a database and several merge field forms I wrote up one afternoon years back.All was idyllic in the presence of a single checking account until that fateful day I needed to add a second one.
Thinking all that needed to be done was clone the original install and use the new data ... WRONG camel breath.
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Nothing worked at all.
So I went ahead and bought a canned check writer with unlimited accounts which does everything my scripting did as well as operate properly in the presence of multiple account iterations.
The moral of the story is free software is typically supplied "as is" and they could really give a rip if there is trouble with anything you want to do that falls outside the "community support forums" which proved totally ineffective and quite infuriating in my particular case.
The secondary moral is "you get what you pay for".