It looks as if Art has entered descriptive information into an account field. GnuCash will always ask if you want to create the nonexistent account (that’s a feature, BTW). Based on the sample string, you’d need to tab out of the account after “bananas”, put “Hot dog” in a memo (presumably), and the calculation into the amount field. Although, why you’d put hot dogs in an account for bananas is beyond me.
David T. > On Jun 13, 2018, at 10:07 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Here is a tip. When that (...) does not exist ... prompt appears, if you > do not know which transaction triggered it, click on the red x button to > close the file. this will bring up a prompt asking if you want to save > your changes to a certain named window, which may be an account name or > search results, for example. This will help you find the offending > transaction. Once you have the offending transaction in focus, delete all > the characters in the account field. then you will get a chance to exit the > transaction abandoning all changes. Now you can save the file and continue > entering data or close the file. > > David C > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Art via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> I must've hit the wrong button somewhere because I keep getting this >> pop-up, Account ExpenseAccounts:Food:fruits:bananasHot dog 1.99*2 does >> not exist, would you like to create it, Yes/No?To which I answer, "No" but >> the pop-up just shows up again!I finally said, "Yes", then canceled the >> thing. That seems to have fixed the problem. >> I'm running GC 3.0 Build 2.6.17b-2765-g70e636646+(2018-04-01) under >> Ubuntu 17.10.This version has sticky fields. I.e., whenever I duplicate >> transactions, I have to click on the original so I can overwrite the text. >> Thanks,Art >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> 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 > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
