(Sorry—I clicked the wrong reply button.)
I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish. It sounds like you don’t want
your books to exaggerate how wealthy you are by ignoring the tax liability of
the transfer. When I transfer (withdraw) money from a tax-deferred retirement
account I usually ha
I understand that one characteristic/weakness of the double entry system is
that you cannot tag a transfer with an income or expense account. Still,
accounting programs help prepare 1099R's, so there must be a way. Keeping
deferred tax items a separate set of books would make income visible bu
Henrik,
As the third David on this thread, I fully echo what the other two have said,
but will further add that if you are hoping to access the data serially and
singly from a common location, the default XML file format can work equally
effectively. And you don't have to maintain a MySQL serv
Henrik,
I doubt if the reliability problem you are experiencing is intrinsically in
GnuCash itself although it may be associated with the library used to connect to
MMySQL.
GnuCash is not designed for multiple access in particular, i.e. multiple users
cannot simultaneously access the same data
Henrik,
The GnuCash program alone is very stable and reliable. It can work with
local data files directly or remote data files using third party or network
software. Whatever reliability issue you are having is most likely an
external one.
It is not required to use the mysql database format to
Hi,
I'm new to GnuCash but really wanted it to save to MySQL so I could easily access it form
different locations. It seems extremely un-reliable though, is this expected? Half the
time is just hangs and says "The server experienced and error..." even though I
can connect and log in manually
