Re: [GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-09 Thread David Cousens
Chris, You possibly have installed the flatpak version of GnuCash in which case it is possibly settings in the flathub support which restrict GnuCash from accessing the printer. Flatpak is a sandbox which isolates the application from the OS. One of the developers has been working on getting a fla

Re: [GNC] Problem reconciling after canceling

2019-03-09 Thread Colin Law
Is the starting balance correct when you restart the reconciliation? Colin On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 01:53 Keith N. McKenna, wrote: > At the time gnucash was the only application open and no other window > was there. > Keith > > On 3/9/2019 7:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Double check you don’

[GNC] no printer to select in print dialog

2019-03-09 Thread Chris Roy-Smith
Hi I was running ver 2.6, Printing offered a list of printers that the computer "knew about". This was updated to 3.2 (via Linux mint updates). Now the only printing options offered in the print dialogue is "file" and "lpr". Print to file works as expected, but printing to lpr does nothing. P

Re: [GNC] Problem reconciling after canceling

2019-03-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
At the time gnucash was the only application open and no other window was there. Keith On 3/9/2019 7:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Double check you don’t have an open reconciliation window hiding in the > background. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Mar 9, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Keith N. McKenna >>

Re: [GNC] where did it go

2019-03-09 Thread David Cousens
Teresa, When you created your new book and account heirarchy you have to save the file to do that so it will be on your disk somewhere. You just need to find where in your files it was saved. It will have the name .gnucash where is the name you originally gave it. It will also have in the same d

Re: [GNC] New user beginning balances receivables

2019-03-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Mar 9, 2019, at 3:45 AM, Teresa wrote: > > I didn't see a reply from David.. I'm not invoicing from here, the program > she was using up until now has so many issues, we don't have a good upload. > She has tracked everything in excel.I just need to plug in a number. You can either plug i

Re: [GNC] Calculate medical expenses for 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If your medical expenses span more than one account, you can use either the Transaction Report, or alternatively, an Income Statement/P&L and only choose those medical expense accounts. (no Income or other accounts) In both cases, set your period to Start of year/End of year (or specify exact d

Re: [GNC] Problem reconciling after canceling

2019-03-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Double check you don’t have an open reconciliation window hiding in the background. Regards, Adrien > On Mar 9, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Keith N. McKenna > wrote: > > After canceling the reconciliation of my checking account and restarting > it the reconcile window showed that I had already reconcil

Re: [GNC] Default invoice/statement

2019-03-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Roger, CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a web language used to describe presentation and appearance. Since reports are output in HTML (a web document language) CSS is used to ’style’ the reports. (fonts, colors, padding, lines, etc.) Custom reports are saved in their own dat

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Retained Earnings is posted when you perform a close book operation. (or manually zero your income/expense accounts to Equity) If you didn’t do this for 2015, there would be no entry. If you performed the 2016 close book operation in Jan 2017, you’ll have a retained earnings entry in that month

Re: [GNC] Calculate medical expenses for 2019

2019-03-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Mar 9, 2019, at 7:48 AM, Clair Garman wrote: > > I desire to use gnucash to work on an account showing all my medical > expenses: > > 1. extract the year 2019 into a new account > > 2. set the Expense value on the first entry on the new account to 0 > (zero). > > 3. have gn

Re: [GNC] Calculate medical expenses for 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Liz
Clair Garman wrote: >I desire to use gnucash to work on an account showing all my medical >expenses: > >1. extract the year 2019 into a new account > >2. set the Expense value on the first entry on the new account to 0 >(zero). > >3. have gnucash recalculate the appropriate

[GNC] Problem reconciling after canceling

2019-03-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
After canceling the reconciliation of my checking account and restarting it the reconcile window showed that I had already reconciled more than the closing balance I entered from my statement. I then canceled the reconciliation again and went into the account register and and reset all entries that

[GNC] Fail to import .QIF file

2019-03-09 Thread KenWA
I created QIF files from Quicken and went through all the procedures down to the final IMPORT. After the third file (of 13) was completed it came up with a message "Failed" but with no further information. I reloaded the offending file and tried again but without success. All this was done on the

Re: [GNC] Default invoice/statement

2019-03-09 Thread Roger Oliver
Very helpful, thanks. Pardon my ignorance, CSS? Do I understand correctly that the customized reports are saved in the data file so should be there when you open the file in the update? Roger On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 9:25 AM Christopher Lam wrote: > Like everything in Gnucash, backward compatibil

Re: [GNC] Test of new email group

2019-03-09 Thread Michael via gnucash-user
Welcome. Your email seems to work. Mike On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 11:13:35 -0500 Clair Garman wrote: >-- > __ > >Mr. Clair Garman 301-273-9380 Riderwood, WC-321, Silver Spring, MD > >"He loves nature in spite of what i

[GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-09 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. While splitting a multi-year book, I saw that the (end of) 2016 balance sheet has an entry called "retained earnings" with a value of 54.10. A find-by-value gives me an entry in jan.2017 from an account which has a tax-related flag set (and can't be changed, too): am I correct in assumin

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 192, Issue 23

2019-03-09 Thread Mike Commissaris
Subject: Re: [GNC] Problems Accessing GnuCash Files on my D:\ Your symptoms sound different, but I fought a similar situation where I share a NTFS data drive between windows and LinuxMint 18.3. It seems that windows does not release any disk it uses because it helps windows boot faster. I first pr

Re: [GNC] Getting security prices - Funnies

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Coates
John Thank you for your patience, I've had a number of problems over the past few days and I've only Just been able to get to dealing with this problem. Short report: I've now got F::Q to successfully update the prices all my securities. Somewhat longer report in case it can help others: O

[GNC] Test of new email group

2019-03-09 Thread Clair Garman
-- __ Mr. Clair Garman 301-273-9380 Riderwood, WC-321, Silver Spring, MD "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." -- Forrest Tucker ___ gnucash-user mailing list g

[GNC] Calculate medical expenses for 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Clair Garman
I desire to use gnucash to work on an account showing all my medical expenses: 1. extract the year 2019 into a new account 2. set the Expense value on the first entry on the new account to 0 (zero). 3. have gnucash recalculate the appropriate values for Expense and Balance t

Re: [GNC] Default invoice/statement

2019-03-09 Thread Christopher Lam
Like everything in Gnucash, backward compatibility is always the golden rule, but this is not always possible. Invoices have been merged i.e. easy/fancy/printable now share a common base and options. Styles can be customized via CSS and layout of header via other options. You shouldn't need to chan

Re: [GNC] Splitting a multi-year file

2019-03-09 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hello, David. Thanks for the explanation. Rest of the comments are inline. To export the account tree use File->Export->Export Accounts to export the account structure into a new book file directly. It works fine with GnuCash V3.4. What version of GnuCash are you using and on what operating

Re: [GNC] Default invoice/statement

2019-03-09 Thread Roger Oliver
Thanks Christopher, By merged, do you mean the style sheets have been merged? Same options for all of them or just one style sheet you can customize? When you upgrade, do you have to re-establish your saved report formats? Roger On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 10:39 PM Christopher Lam wrote: > On Fri,

Re: [GNC] Default invoice/statement

2019-03-09 Thread Roger Oliver
Adrian, Good to know. May try the intermediate step of upgrading to 2.6.21 first. I understand 3.5 should be out by the end of this month. I have a separate computer I can experiment with first. Thanks, Roger Message: 6 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:30:46 -0600 From: Adrien Monteleone To: GnuCash S

Re: [GNC] where did it go

2019-03-09 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/9/2019 7:52 AM, David Carlson wrote: GnuCash is like your document editor or spreadsheet program. When you close it the first time, it asks you where to save it and what to call it. Then, when you re-start it, it opens the same file automatically. If you skip that step, you have a problem.

Re: [GNC] where did it go

2019-03-09 Thread David Carlson
GnuCash is like your document editor or spreadsheet program. When you close it the first time, it asks you where to save it and what to call it. Then, when you re-start it, it opens the same file automatically. If you skip that step, you have a problem. I am not sure what happens if you never na

[GNC] where did it go

2019-03-09 Thread Teresa
I just want to make sure, I had to run out of a meeting, closed everything after working for days to get 3 plus years of data in and balancing. It's gone!! I need to save the data outside GnuCash?? -- Teresa Slack Senior Client Manager *_Coba Enterprise Management, LLC_* 3620 Pelham Road,