Re: [GNC] gnucash v 2.6.19 or newer on 32bit linux

Hi David.  Thank you for asking.  I am using Linux Lite, Ubuntu 16.04 and GNU Cash 2.6.12 on the older machine.  As far as I know, I can not install any newer version of Ubuntu on this 32bit machine. Hi Adrien.  I'm kinda scared of attempting to build a newer version of GNU Cash without knowin

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

What was your previously installed version - I know you said "from previous version" but that is a little vague :-). If I remember correctly upgrading from one of the versions took a little while to actually open a Gnucash window first time in as it involved migrating preferences etc? Cheers David

[GNC] Get Quotes hangs

Linux: Fedora 35 64-bit GnuCash 4.10 Finance::Quote 1.51 Online Quote: Alpha Vantage API key: has a value gnc-fq-check: installed gnc-fq-dump: installed gnc-fq-helper: installed gnc-fq-update: missing gnucash Tools Price database Get Quotes gets me a spinning circle. System Monitor shows

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

Richard, Just installed GnuCash 4.10 on my wife's Windows 11 laptop with no problems at all using the msi installer from Sourceforge following the download link from the GnuCash website. Starts, creates a new datafile and opens a copy of my datafile from my Linux system without any problem. It ha

Re: [GNC] Importing Accounts with non-English Characters

I downloaded v4.10, but the bug remains. It is still not possible to import *accounts* using a CSV file (encoded in UTF-8) with non-English characters. Is there any workaround? I read in the bug report that importing a CSV file encoded in windows 1252 may work. However, I have no idea how to save

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

No problem at all. Maybe try downgrading to 4.9 to see if the issue persists or not to help find where the problem is. You can get previous versions here: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 6:01 PM Richard Clarkson wrote: > Thanks Glenn > > > > That’s what I tr

Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

On 5/8/2022 3:47 PM, Stan Brown wrote: On 2022-05-08 10:17, Scott Soderling wrote: Debit to Assets:Investment Account Credit to Income:Investment Gains and Losses (Some people, me among them, would put Investment Gains and Losses under Equity rather than Income. I do this because investment gai

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

Your data file for your book which will be in the folder that you specified. Ex myfinances.gnucash vacationhome.gnucash On Sun, May 8, 2022, 1:00 PM Richard Clarkson wrote: > Glenn > > > > Can’t see anything called book file. Are you referring to GNUData.gnucash > ? If so nothing opens. > > > >

Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

On 2022-05-08 10:17, Scott Soderling wrote: > Opening the investment accounts and giving them opening balances is easy. > I'm now looking for suggestions going forward regarding updating the > current value of each account monthly. That is, I don't want to set up sub > accounts for every stock, mut

Re: [GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

If you just want to keep the value balance, then you can just use a regular asset account and every month (or quarter, or however often) enter a "balance update" transaction for whatever gains/losses you achieved that month/quarter/etc. Note that this will combine realized and unrealized gains, so

[GNC] Investment accounts - maintain ongoing balance only

I use GnuCash for all my personal finances. I have a number of "retirement" investment accounts. I receive monthly multi-page statements for each account from the bank, showing every transaction (buys/sells, interest, dividends, capital gains, etc). Now that I'm a senior, I have to withdraw monthly

Re: [GNC] Double entry directly to Equity

On 5/8/2022 11:26 AM, David Long wrote: Hi, I just tested David's method of creating a new equity account and crediting the revaluation to that account and debiting the asset account. I did not attach the new Revaluation Reserve account to an existing equity account (parent) but I specified it

Re: [GNC] Large GnuCash file very slow to write to

Tim, Also please mention what version of GnuCash you are presently using and a little more about your OS environment such as size of your RAM and whether it is nearly all used when you see your problem. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 10:31 AM john wrote: > Is this about your python program being slow or

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

Ok try double clicking directly on your book file and see if it works. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 11:16 AM Richard Clarkson wrote: > Glenn > > > > When installing using the installer there was a message that GnuCash was > open, so I closed GnuCash and clicked retry. > > > > Gnucash.exe didn’t work.

Re: [GNC] Large GnuCash file very slow to write to

Is this about your python program being slow or about GnuCash being slow? Note that Piecash isn't GnuCash and we don't provide any support for it, nor obviously can we provide any support for your program. If it's a GnuCash problem, please provide more details about exactly what you're doing an

[GNC] Double entry directly to Equity

Hi, I just tested David's method of creating a new equity account and crediting the revaluation to that account and debiting the asset account. I did not attach the new Revaluation Reserve account to an existing equity account (parent) but I specified it as a new top level account. Either way wo

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

Hi Richard, Do you get an error message? Did you install using the installer? On Sun, May 8, 2022, 9:40 AM Richard Clarkson via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Have just updated from previous version to GnuCash 4.10 on Windows 11. > > > > GnuCash now refuses to open (have tried

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.10

Richard, When you tried to update, did it tell you, you had to remove the old installation of GnuCash? I know it does that before installing the new version. Maybe there was an issue with the uninstall. I woould make sure you have a backup, then try uninstalling the old version manually. Aft

[GNC] GnuCash 4.10

Have just updated from previous version to GnuCash 4.10 on Windows 11. GnuCash now refuses to open (have tried from PowerShell too). I have tried reinstalling but no change. Any idea how I can rectify this issue? Many thanks Richard ___ gnu

Re: [GNC] Large GnuCash file very slow to write to

It is an SSD drive (I'm using a Mac Mini about one year old - with the M1 chip). The slow part seems to be saving the database - inserting the transactions is fast enough, the save operation is what takes so long. It may be 20 minutes - I haven't timed it. Even closing GnuCash is slow - perhaps

Re: [GNC] Large GnuCash file very slow to write to

I don’t believe the file is getting too large. If you haven’t looked into using an SSD drive at least for the database I highly recommend it. Not only will you amazed at how fast data will be written to the file but also how fast you will be able to generate reports. Ken Schneider > On May 8,

[GNC] Large GnuCash file very slow to write to

Hi, My GnuCash file (SQLite format) has become rather large - 110 MBytes. Every month or two I import a lot more transactions in CSV format. I use piecash in a Python script I wrote, because the importing of CSV data built into GnuCash crashes when I import too many transactions. I might be im

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Double entry directly to Equity

Thanks, that answers my question! On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 12:03 PM wrote: > Bogdan > > That's easy. In the Accounts Tab, right click on the top level Equity > account to > select it and then right click anywhere in the pane and select New Account > from > the popup menu or use Actions->New Accou

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Double entry directly to Equity

Bogdan That's easy. In the Accounts Tab, right click on the top level Equity account to select it and then right click anywhere in the pane and select New Account from the popup menu or use Actions->New Account from the mainmenu. This should start the dialogue with Equity as the parent account, e

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Double entry directly to Equity

Well, actually my question is not an accounting question but rather a technical one on how to set up and use equity accounts in Gnucash, if at all possible (I'm a qualified accountant by the way). I took a revaluation reserve just as an example. In many accounting frameworks you can find items tha

Re: [GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 07:02:22AM +1000, Liz Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2022 18:58:13 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > However there are other files one needs to copy if you want reports > > and screen layout and things like that to be the same. Is this > > documented anywhere? > > Of course.