I'm quite certain at this point that BeerSmith 'forgets' inventory occasionally. Is this a known issue / anyone else seen this?
I've been unable to identify the complete steps to recreate this problem. Have seen this happen many times with various ingredients (I use the software quite a bit and have a pretty large amount of ingredients, so there's quite a lot of activity between noticing this sort of thing happen!) Here's the most recent incident where I'm completely certain I didn't do something strange and 'accidentally' remove inventory:
About a month ago I re-inventoried all of my hops in BeerSmith.
One of the items was 4 oz of Aramis.
This evening, I started designing a recipe with those hops today, and was surprised to find no Aramis in my inventory. Thinking perhaps I remembered the wrong hops, I went to confirm I had those in the freezer. Then I did a local search to check if I had never even created a recipe with those hops to rule out the possibility that I accidentally "Remove Inv'd" them at some point.
So now I am quite certain I did add them to the inventory, and have never used them. Yet they were no longer listed in my inventory.
Since adding those hops to the inventory, I have brewed 3 beers and did use the "Remove Inv" function on those three. Have designed several new brews. Added new ingredients to the inventory. I've also made use of the Session-Fermentation Readings. But this is the first recipe with those particular hops, so I have no good explanation for how they might have been removed from the inventory.
P.S. Software developer here, so I appreciate just how annoying this (lack of) information is and I apologize! Frankly, I'd be glad to offer any assistance I can in figuring this out... again, I've been unable to identify the conditions, which has been rather frustrating since I would prefer to give you reproduction steps here!
I've been unable to identify the complete steps to recreate this problem. Have seen this happen many times with various ingredients (I use the software quite a bit and have a pretty large amount of ingredients, so there's quite a lot of activity between noticing this sort of thing happen!) Here's the most recent incident where I'm completely certain I didn't do something strange and 'accidentally' remove inventory:
About a month ago I re-inventoried all of my hops in BeerSmith.
One of the items was 4 oz of Aramis.
This evening, I started designing a recipe with those hops today, and was surprised to find no Aramis in my inventory. Thinking perhaps I remembered the wrong hops, I went to confirm I had those in the freezer. Then I did a local search to check if I had never even created a recipe with those hops to rule out the possibility that I accidentally "Remove Inv'd" them at some point.
So now I am quite certain I did add them to the inventory, and have never used them. Yet they were no longer listed in my inventory.
Since adding those hops to the inventory, I have brewed 3 beers and did use the "Remove Inv" function on those three. Have designed several new brews. Added new ingredients to the inventory. I've also made use of the Session-Fermentation Readings. But this is the first recipe with those particular hops, so I have no good explanation for how they might have been removed from the inventory.
P.S. Software developer here, so I appreciate just how annoying this (lack of) information is and I apologize! Frankly, I'd be glad to offer any assistance I can in figuring this out... again, I've been unable to identify the conditions, which has been rather frustrating since I would prefer to give you reproduction steps here!