Trevor, Have you tried making a copy of the file on your local drive and working on it there. I have never worked with dropbox so I have no idea if it could confused by the way GnuCash makes backups, for example.
David C On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Chris Smith <ch...@cgsmith.net> wrote: > If you don't have it open elsewhere you can click "Open anyway" > > Depending on how it shutdown the lock file may be there. > > > On Jan 15, 2018 9:31 PM, "Trevor Richards via gnucash-user" < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > I'm not making much progress... I see I got some replies to my manual entry > issues but now unable to investigate further... see attached screen-prints. > > > > On Sunday, 14 January 2018, 19:27:21 GMT+8, Trevor Richards < > tr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I'll bet I'm doing something dumb... but even with date drop-down menu, I > am unable to insert any date before 11Jan. See attached. > > > On Sunday, 14 January 2018, 16:43:58 GMT+8, Rick Copple < > r...@copplecleaningservice.com> wrote: > > Hi Trevor, > > What exactly is it doing to prevent you from entering past dates? I enter > them all the time. You do have to enter the / dividers. Like instead of > 11418 you would have to enter 1/14/18 to get the date to come out right. > --Rick Copple > > > On Jan 14, 2018, at 12:15 AM, Trevor Richards <tr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > I've been following the user group for years but still not started the move > from 20yrs of MSmoney... all looks too hard with an MSM file with records > back to 1997. > I thought I could test the water with a new business and associated bank > account that started in 2016.I've been managing this with a spreadsheet as > very few transactions. > So I set up a business set of accounts and tried entering manually, the > historic records... I'm immediately stumped. It does not let me enter past > dates. Clearly I'm going about this in the wrong way.Advice > appreciated.Trevor > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
