[GNC] Save or Backup file
Is there any way to backup file before I exit software. I am in the process of moving away from Quicken and your software is very impressive. Thank you, Alan Fields acfsecu...@aol.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
[GNC] Crash while importing QFX
Hello, This morning I tried importing QFX and getting this error. This is the first time this happened: Some debug logs: admin@MacBook-Pro ~ % /Applications/Gnucash-4.12/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug Application Path /Applications/Gnucash-4.12/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash (process:1387): gnc.gui-WARNING **: 06:03:24.601: [mac_set_languages()] Language list: en:en_US:C LibOFX INFO: libofx_proc_file(): File format not specified, autodetecting... LibOFX INFO: libofx_proc_file(): Detected file format: OFX (Open Financial eXchange (OFX or QFX)) LibOFX INFO: sanitize_proprietary_tags() removed: 6526 LibOFX INFO: sanitize_proprietary_tags() removed: swu LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate SIGNONMSGSRSV1 (Above message occurred on Line 2, Column 1) LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate SONRS (Above message occurred on Line 3, Column 1) LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate FI (Above message occurred on Line 11, Column 1) LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate BANKMSGSRSV1 (Above message occurred on Line 17, Column 1) LibOFX INFO: Created OfxDummyContainer to hold unsupported aggregate STMTTRNRS (Above message occurred on Line 18, Column 1) Gnucash(1387,0x117656600) malloc: *** error for object 0x60ddd200: pointer being freed was not allocated Gnucash(1387,0x117656600) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug I can upload the sample QFX if it helps, or is this a known bug? I recently switch to a new computer. Not sure if that’s what caused it. About to try this same QFX file in the older computer. Best, Shifan ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
Re: [GNC] Save or Backup file
Alan GnuCash creates a backup file at the start of each session and creates a log file during the session. This is principally to allow recovery from program crashes which may corrupt the data file. The state of the file may be recovered by opening the backup created before a crash and then reloading the logfile for the session in which the crash occurred. It is sometimes necessary to edit the log file in a text editor to remove the last operation if that led to the crash. It is recommended to keep each datafile in its own directory/folder and the internal backaups and log files will be created in the directory. You can set a preference for the number of logfiles and backup files to retain. It is also recommended practice to backup this directory to at least one or moreof another computer, a network storage device, a cloud storage, a USB stick, CD-DVD fairly frequently. David Cousens On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 13:51 -0400, Alan Fields via gnucash-user wrote: > Is there any way to backup file before I exit software. I am in the > process of moving away from Quicken and your software is very impressive. > > Thank you, > > Alan Fields > > acfsecu...@aol.com > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
[GNC] XML or database?
This question may have been asked before, but I'm relatively new to this mailing list. Is there any advantage to switching to the database format? Would it use less space? My ".gnucash" file is about 1.5M currently, and opening it takes mere seconds. Long ago in my Quicken days, I would generally keep about 3 years of data and then "archive" transactions older than that... I don't know if GnuCash has (or needs) any similar feature. -- _ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
Re: [GNC] XML or database?
Hi, On Mon, October 31, 2022 9:14 am, R Losey wrote: > This question may have been asked before, but I'm relatively new to this > mailing list. > > Is there any advantage to switching to the database format? Would it use > less space? My ".gnucash" file is about 1.5M currently, and opening it > takes mere seconds. The main advantage of using the SQL backend is that all changes are "saved" immediately, so you wont lose data because you "forgot to save" But no, the DB is most definitely NOT smaller; the XML file is compressed on save, so that 1.5MB would probably be more like 10-20MB of DB. > Long ago in my Quicken days, I would generally keep about 3 years of data > and then "archive" transactions older than that... I don't know if GnuCash > has (or needs) any similar feature. For what it's worth, I have data going back to like 2007 in my file. GnuCash does not really have an "archive" function (although there have been 3rd party tools that do that. Hope that helps! _ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
Re: [GNC] Paying invoices from the edit invoice screen
I'm guessing you mean the Transfer Account pane in the bottom right of the Payment dialog. I seem to recall that it defaults to no selection, then to whatever was last used, per customer or vendor. As to why it ever was used for Liabilities in your case, I have no idea. But intentionally changing it for one payment then processing another payment, for that same customer/vendor, *should* then default to whatever you used last. Or are you saying it keeps going back to Liabilities no matter what? I'd say that behavior is certainly a bug. But the easy solution is to just make sure to select the desired account, Checking in your case, each time. Regards, Adrien On 10/29/22 9:28 PM, Liz wrote: Background Debian 11 Gnucash 4.11 Workflow I use the business features to note income which is invoiced through another program. I copy invoice numbers and amounts into a Gnucash invoice so I keep track of my income through Gnucash. This money comes frequently (which is a ‘good thing’) and sometimes I get behind in my invoicing. Then I can be doing the invoice when I already have the money in the bank account, and can choose to “pay invoice” from the dropdown menu for post or unpost the invoice. Problem I had noticed money not arriving in Gnucash’ data for the bank account when I pay the invoice from that dropdown menu. The customer report showed the money had been paid, but the bank account didn’t show the deposit. Friday night I spent some time posting, unposting, paying and unpaying the same invoices until I opened the relevant split in ‘Accounts Receivable’ and found that the money had gone to the Liabilities top level account. This account has no entries but I have not marked ‘placeholder’. Question Why is the money in Liabilities? The ‘Process Payments’ child window is defaulting to ‘Liabilities’ when I have never used this. It used to default to ‘Assets > Bank Account’, where the money has been deposited. How can I stop this occurring? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
Re: [GNC] XML or database?
That helps - thanks! I assume that if I attempt to quit GnuCash with unsaved data, it will remind me to save... but the current indications of unsaved data files have been sufficient to remind me to save the data. If you have data going back 15 years, I'm just getting started with 6 years (heh). On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 8:31 AM Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, October 31, 2022 9:14 am, R Losey wrote: > > This question may have been asked before, but I'm relatively new to this > > mailing list. > > > > Is there any advantage to switching to the database format? Would it use > > less space? My ".gnucash" file is about 1.5M currently, and opening it > > takes mere seconds. > > The main advantage of using the SQL backend is that all changes are > "saved" immediately, so you wont lose data because you "forgot to save" > > But no, the DB is most definitely NOT smaller; the XML file is compressed > on save, so that 1.5MB would probably be more like 10-20MB of DB. > > > Long ago in my Quicken days, I would generally keep about 3 years of > data > > and then "archive" transactions older than that... I don't know if > GnuCash > > has (or needs) any similar feature. > > For what it's worth, I have data going back to like 2007 in my file. > GnuCash does not really have an "archive" function (although there have > been 3rd party tools that do that. > > Hope that helps! > > _ > > Richard Losey > > rlo...@gmail.com > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- >Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 >de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com >Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > -- _ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
Re: [GNC] XML or database?
An advantage of using the xml backend and leaving autosave turned off is that you can just quit out of Gnucash if you inadvertently screw something up as it's not saved after each txn as per sql :-) Cheers David H. On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 01:15, R Losey wrote: > That helps - thanks! > > I assume that if I attempt to quit GnuCash with unsaved data, it will > remind me to save... but the current indications of unsaved data files have > been sufficient to remind me to save the data. > > If you have data going back 15 years, I'm just getting started with 6 years > (heh). > > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 8:31 AM Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, October 31, 2022 9:14 am, R Losey wrote: > > > This question may have been asked before, but I'm relatively new to > this > > > mailing list. > > > > > > Is there any advantage to switching to the database format? Would it > use > > > less space? My ".gnucash" file is about 1.5M currently, and opening it > > > takes mere seconds. > > > > The main advantage of using the SQL backend is that all changes are > > "saved" immediately, so you wont lose data because you "forgot to save" > > > > But no, the DB is most definitely NOT smaller; the XML file is compressed > > on save, so that 1.5MB would probably be more like 10-20MB of DB. > > > > > Long ago in my Quicken days, I would generally keep about 3 years of > > data > > > and then "archive" transactions older than that... I don't know if > > GnuCash > > > has (or needs) any similar feature. > > > > For what it's worth, I have data going back to like 2007 in my file. > > GnuCash does not really have an "archive" function (although there have > > been 3rd party tools that do that. > > > > Hope that helps! > > > > _ > > > Richard Losey > > > rlo...@gmail.com > > > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -derek > > > > -- > >Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > >de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com > >Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > > > > > -- > _ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Micah 6:8 > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
