Thanks John, I had a suspicion that this may be due to an ambiguous trading account: I had noticed that originally some transactions appeared under NYSE/INTC while my present security and prices are all under NASDAQ/INTC. There is no security defined under NYSE/INTC, but there is a trading account with that name (which has correct transactions and behaves normally), and one under Trading/NASDAQ/INTC with phony transactions ($number in the increase column instead of INTC shares), which is also caught in a rebalance loop.
Should I just delete one of the two trading accounts, and which one? I lean towards the NASDAQ one with the phony entries and then try to move INTC from NYSE to NASDAQ - how? Best regards, Bruno > On Jan 5, 2020, at 11:22 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > Bruno, > > Don't do anything drastic yet, but everything is pretty independent. You > could change the name on the old INTC and create a new INTC security and > GnuCash will happily use your INTC prices for pricing the new security. > They're linked by the security name and namespace, not by GUID. Unfortunately > GnuCash won't let you reassign the account but you can create a new one and > transfer the balance with a transaction. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Jan 5, 2020, at 9:37 AM, Bruno Acklin <back...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> Thanks for the impressively quick reply - and yes, I agree this looks like >> the same problem! >> Unfortunately there does not seem to be another fix than recreating the >> stock, account and transactions.. >> >> Do you know of a way I might preserve the 20 years of price data I have on >> that stock? I saw a suggestion to create a suitable report and reimport the >> resulting file, but I dd not see any report that would allow me to save >> price information. >> >> Best regards, >> Bruno Acklin >> (408) 425 4753 >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 7:43 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 6:39 PM, Bruno Acklin <back...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Best wishes for 2020! >>>> >>>> I am struggling with a stock account, where I am unable to enter any valid >>>> transactions, and suspect the security information may be corrupted: >>>> >>>> Whenever I enter a trade from the account (declared as stock for an >>>> existing security INTC) and press return, Gnucash completes a transaction >>>> (cf attachment), which looks ok, except there is no shares traded and >>>> there is no way to enter any quantity on the trading account. Gnucash >>>> insists on balancing the transaction, after which there is a huge number >>>> in the trading/share account, but still no quantity of shares traded, and >>>> no way to complete the transaction, other than closing the account tab. >>>> >>>> I checked the security and my price information which looks ok and updates >>>> w/ finance::quote. If I have to recreate the account and reenter all >>>> transactions, I’d like to save the historic price information, but don’t >>>> know of a way to export it. >>>> >>> >>> That sounds like a variation on >>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797512. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >> > _______________________________________________ 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.
