Re: [GNC] mysql setup in linux (debian)

2021-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Good catch, Gord! On 2021-02-01 10:36, gnu Gord wrote: …It appears that mysql (or somewhere in the backend of gnuCash) does not like a back slash character as the last character in a field. The data I was trying to save had one entry with a 'notes' field that … was "2 books one for A one for\".

Re: [GNC] mysql setup in linux (debian)

2021-02-01 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 2/1/21 10:36 AM, gnu Gord wrote: Thanks to all that commented on this and thanks to the '/tmp/gnucash.trace' file, I think I have discovered the problem. It appears that mysql (or somewhere in the backend of gnuCash) does not like a back slash character as the last character in a field. The da

Re: [GNC] Changing multiple transactions

2021-02-01 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 2/1/21 4:45 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 1/31/2021 5:30 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: To err is human.  It requires a computer to really foul things up -- especially if you ask the DBA (me in a former life) to fix a few million transactions with "this script"). As somebody who d

Re: [GNC] mysql setup in linux (debian)

2021-02-01 Thread gnu Gord
Thanks to all that commented on this and thanks to the '/tmp/gnucash.trace' file, I think I have discovered the problem. It appears that mysql (or somewhere in the backend of gnuCash) does not like a back slash character as the last character in a field. The data I was trying to save had one entry

[GNC] "New" tutorials

2021-02-01 Thread Maurits Lamers
Hi all, I have been a user of gnucash for a few years now. I started using GnuCash through the manual posted as blog posts at http://accoo.nl/blog I noticed however that this manual was not structured very well, certain things were not mentioned, parts of the manual were a bit out of date etc.

Re: [GNC] Changing multiple transactions

2021-02-01 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/31/2021 5:30 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: To err is human.  It requires a computer to really foul things up -- especially if you ask the DBA (me in a former life) to fix a few million transactions with "this script"). As somebody who did this sort of thing in my working days, I will se

Re: [GNC] Changing multiple transactions

2021-02-01 Thread Liz
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:17:59 -0800 Jeff Rizzo wrote: > though I'm currently puzzling a > little about how to with an OFX source instead of CSV - it did ask me > the real account name, but apparently only for one side of each > transaction?  I'll dig. You set the account name for the account