Re: [GNC] New Accounts

[Brad Morrison]

Hi Promethean/GnuCash users, 

https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help - "Chapter 5.
Setting Up, Editing & Working with Accounts" of the GNUCash tutorial
covers the questions you are asking about. 

In addition: 

What version of GNUCash are you using? 5.10 is the current version -
https://gnucash.org/download.phtml 

What Linux distro are you using? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux &
https://distrowatch.com/ 

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On 2025-01-13 09:33, Steve Butler wrote:

> The answers depend on how you want to proceed.  If the two Bitcoin accounts
> are separate businesses, then you may want to keep their transactions in
> their own file (sorta like having different spreadsheets) but using the
> same program.
> 
> However, if these are all personal accounts, then just set them up as
> different accounts under your main asset account in the same file (or
> accounting book).
> 
> It may make more sense to lay out your chart of accounts (COA) on paper
> first.  Use one sheet for all things/accounts considered as an ASSET.
> Different sheet for INCOME, a third for EXPENSES and the fourth for
> LIABILITIES.
> 
> That way you can move them around and group them as necessary to reflect
> how you do life.
> 
> Run it past your tax person so they are comfortable with how you organized
> things for when you drop off your Balance Sheet and Income Statement.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 09:02 promethean--- via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> I have a very basic question. I am new to GnuCash since Quickbooks will
>> not run on Linux and I want to have my own ledger as opposed to a cloud
>> solution.
>> I have three different banks that I have checking accounts with. One I use
>> just for personal/household use.
>> The other two I have set up specifically to fund Crypto transactions.
>> How do I need (and how do I go about) set up these accounts? Do I need
>> three different and separate GnuCash programs? Can I set up the three
>> accounts within one program? Is there an alternative solution?
>> What is the best way to go?
>> Thank you for sharing your time and information.
>> 
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Re: [GNC] Fwd: GNC won't open my data

[Brad Morrison]

Hi Bruce/GNUCash users, 

What version fo GNUCash was used to create your data file that is having
trouble opening? 

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installation#Upgrading &
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Using_Different_Versions.2C_Up_And_Downgrade
are some resources on what to do when upgrading. 

Another possibility could be that a dependency/library is not included
on your Linux distro, therefore you could use the Flatpak version of
GNUCash - https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnucash.GnuCash 

https://flatpak.org/setup/MX%20Linux &
https://flathub.org/setup/MX%20Linux for setting up Flatpak on MX-Linux
- https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mx 

What version of MX-Linux are you using? The latest version appears to be
23.4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_Linux 

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On 2025-01-13 14:03, Bruce Olson via gnucash-user wrote:

> On Thu, December 12, 2024 4:06 pm, Bruce Irving wrote: I have been using GNC 
> for several years on my Linux operating system.  I
> have been using the Flatpak version, most recently 5.9.
> 
> Recently, discovered that Mx-Linux has 5.9 in its testing section.
> Downloaded it but it would NOT open my data file.[code]No suitable backend
> was found for/home/bruce/Brucei/Documents/GnuCash/Bruce.gnucash[/code]
> Created a new book which opens normally.
> 
> How can I use my old data?
> 
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Are you using the default XML format?

Is your new file (new book) saved in the same location as the old data?

Have you tried to open your old data file within GnuCash by clicking
File --> Open from the GnuCash menu bar?

Regards,

Bruce Olson

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Re: [GNC] Fwd: GNC won't open my data

[sunfish62--- via gnucash-user]

The original thread was from a month ago, and the OP was able to solve his 
problem, I believe. 

The version of GnuCash in use is immaterial, and telling people to upgrade is 
unlikely to solve their problem--unless you know for a fact that the problem in 
question has been observed and explicitly fixed in a later version. 

In this case, the problem would most likely be related to the user saving their 
data file in a DBMS format, but not having the libdbi drivers installed on the 
second iteration. 

⁣David T.​

On Jan 14, 2025, 12:32 PM, at 12:32 PM, Brad Morrison  
wrote:
>Hi Bruce/GNUCash users, 
>
>What version fo GNUCash was used to create your data file that is
>having
>trouble opening? 
>
>https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installation#Upgrading &
>https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Using_Different_Versions.2C_Up_And_Downgrade
>are some resources on what to do when upgrading. 
>
>Another possibility could be that a dependency/library is not included
>on your Linux distro, therefore you could use the Flatpak version of
>GNUCash - https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnucash.GnuCash 
>
>https://flatpak.org/setup/MX%20Linux &
>https://flathub.org/setup/MX%20Linux for setting up Flatpak on MX-Linux
>- https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mx 
>
>What version of MX-Linux are you using? The latest version appears to
>be
>23.4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_Linux 
>
>---
>Thanks, 
>
>Brad - https://www.facebook.com/brad.morrison.12327/ &
>https://norcal.social/@BradMorrison 
>
>On 2025-01-13 14:03, Bruce Olson via gnucash-user wrote:
>
>> On Thu, December 12, 2024 4:06 pm, Bruce Irving wrote: I have been
>using GNC for several years on my Linux operating system.  I
>> have been using the Flatpak version, most recently 5.9.
>> 
>> Recently, discovered that Mx-Linux has 5.9 in its testing section.
>> Downloaded it but it would NOT open my data file.[code]No suitable
>backend
>> was found
>for/home/bruce/Brucei/Documents/GnuCash/Bruce.gnucash[/code]
>> Created a new book which opens normally.
>> 
>> How can I use my old data?
>> 
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>
>Are you using the default XML format?
>
>Is your new file (new book) saved in the same location as the old data?
>
>Have you tried to open your old data file within GnuCash by clicking
>File --> Open from the GnuCash menu bar?
>
>Regards,
>
>Bruce Olson
>
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Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

[Liz]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:08:13 -0500
Jediator  wrote:

> There is a hard-wired page-break built into the print function to
> split the pages based on your page and font sizes.  You can adjust
> the page size or margin but can't do scaling to save papers (and
> trees).  I tried multiple ways but can't get rid of it.  This is
> really an unwanted feature that I believe only occurs in recent
> releases (>5.8+?).  Could the development team consider removing this
> feature so let the printer makes page breaks dynamically? Thanks!
> 
> -- ND

I have read about this, and seen this many times, through multiple
releases, and many years.

I recall that the best way to handle this is to export to another
format, maybe html, and then adjust the exported file.


Liz
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Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

[Manfred Usselmann]

Am 2025-01-13 15:52, schrieb Eric Beversluis via gnucash-user:
When I create a report (e.g., a transaction report) and tell GnuCash to 
"Make PDF," the resulting PDF tends to have lines of text split 
horizontally, so the top half appears on one page and the bottom half 
of the line of text appears on the next.


Is there a way around this problem?


Save the report as html and print the html file with a browser to a pdf 
file.


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Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[Kalpesh Patel]

See https://storware.eu/blog/grandfather-father-son-gfs-backup/ for very 
popular backup scheme. I advocate backing up the entire system - not just bits 
here and bytes there. Even with modern electronics in the hard drives (spinning 
platter ones or the solid state ones), they normally fail to tell you in time 
when they go bad and believe me they do go bad.

-Original Message-
From: Michael or Penny Novack  
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 12:59 PM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

On 1/13/2025 12:37 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote:
> ok mark,
>
> how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you

How do you make a backup of all the other user data on your computer? 
<> You should not be looking at different backup 
of user data from each application. You want a GENERAL back-up procedure.

You have a lot of decisions to make. How often will your data be backed up? To 
what will the data be backed-up, the cloud? An external drive? If the latter, a 
second copy sent offsite?

The point I am making is that if you are backing up ALL of your user data, you 
don't need something specific to gnucash (gnucash user data just a special case 
with "all")

There are TWO fundamental kinds of back-up, all as of some date/time and 
"incremental" (every time a file is changed). The latter takes less space but 
will require software. The former you can even do manually.

Michael D Novack




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Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

[sunfish62--- via gnucash-user]

Save the pdf and print from a dedicated viewer. The split lines issue has been 
around forever. 

⁣David T. ​

On Jan 15, 2025, 3:26 AM, at 3:26 AM, Eric Beversluis via gnucash-user 
 wrote:
>When I create a report (e.g., a transaction report) and tell GnuCash to
>
>"Make PDF," the resulting PDF tends to have lines of text split 
>horizontally, so the top half appears on one page and the bottom half
>of 
>the line of text appears on the next.
>
>Is there a way around this problem?
>-- 
>Eric Beversluis
>www.ericbeversluis.com
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Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

[Jediator]

There is a hard-wired page-break built into the print function to split 
the pages based on your page and font sizes.  You can adjust the page 
size or margin but can't do scaling to save papers (and trees).  I tried 
multiple ways but can't get rid of it.  This is really an unwanted 
feature that I believe only occurs in recent releases (>5.8+?).  Could 
the development team consider removing this feature so let the printer 
makes page breaks dynamically? Thanks!


-- ND
On 1/14/25 9:49 PM, Murugan Mariappan wrote:

You can adjust the page by going to File -> Page Setup and adjust the bottom 
margin.  please note you will have to do couple of tries to get the right page you 
want




Saludos Cordiales


Murugan


From: gnucash-user  on 
behalf of Eric Beversluis via gnucash-user 
Sent: 13 January 2025 11:52
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
Subject: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

When I create a report (e.g., a transaction report) and tell GnuCash to
"Make PDF," the resulting PDF tends to have lines of text split
horizontally, so the top half appears on one page and the bottom half of
the line of text appears on the next.

Is there a way around this problem?
--
Eric Beversluis
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ericbeversluis.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C39274bfdf45e4c3ee69e08dd34fb4520%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C638724975990210317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2f%2FDrTOl%2Fmn7hZRrT5xbjNscBooB4nxdcoHyKFfO1Jc%3D&reserved=0
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Re: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

[Murugan Mariappan]

You can adjust the page by going to File -> Page Setup and adjust the bottom 
margin.  please note you will have to do couple of tries to get the right page 
you want




Saludos Cordiales


Murugan


From: gnucash-user 
 on behalf of Eric 
Beversluis via gnucash-user 
Sent: 13 January 2025 11:52
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
Subject: [GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

When I create a report (e.g., a transaction report) and tell GnuCash to
"Make PDF," the resulting PDF tends to have lines of text split
horizontally, so the top half appears on one page and the bottom half of
the line of text appears on the next.

Is there a way around this problem?
--
Eric Beversluis
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ericbeversluis.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C39274bfdf45e4c3ee69e08dd34fb4520%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C638724975990210317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2f%2FDrTOl%2Fmn7hZRrT5xbjNscBooB4nxdcoHyKFfO1Jc%3D&reserved=0
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[GNC] Organizing securities

[Kalpesh Patel]

Hi GNC User group -

 

I was looking to organize different items (I hesitate to say commodities as
I think that may not be correct way to refer them as they are really defined
in Security Editor - correct me if I am wrong in my understanding) that are
listed underneath Trading top level account and in Namespace that is
available in Security Editor.  While I understand that these are free format
and are left up to one's imagination, I am more bit interested on original
vision of how it was to be used. For the Namespace under the Security
Editor, I've settled on organizing it based on the Exchange where the
commodity trades as per Yahoo's finance web site, I am not sure about the
former one. All insights welcome, including for latter one.

 

Thanks.

 


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[GNC] "Make PDF" splits line of text.

[Eric Beversluis via gnucash-user]

When I create a report (e.g., a transaction report) and tell GnuCash to 
"Make PDF," the resulting PDF tends to have lines of text split 
horizontally, so the top half appears on one page and the bottom half of 
the line of text appears on the next.


Is there a way around this problem?
--
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www.ericbeversluis.com
2x Honorable Mention--Writer's Digest Contest
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