Re: [GNC] Temporary Website URL

2023-03-18 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Brad, I just want to note that your acquaintance has a remarkably parochial attitude about software. GnuCash has been available and actively developed for something like 25 years. It seems to me that in this era of "big data," those commercial companies are more interested in the customer as

Re: [GNC] Help with downloading transactions.

2023-03-18 Thread R Losey
This is how I'd use it... I know what I want to track, and the download won't have that information, so I want to enter things by hand and then verify by downloading... currently, I verify by reconciling. On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:28 PM John Layman wrote: > There is also the hybrid option of en

Re: [GNC] Help with downloading transactions.

2023-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
On 2023-03-18 06:13, Simon Roberts wrote: > I feel compelled to add my agreement with Alan. This kind of crime is on > the rise and we're all vulnerable. And that's why it's important to monitor accounts no less often than every few days -- waiting till the end of the month gives fraudsters too mu

Re: [GNC] Temporary Website URL

2023-03-18 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 18 Mar 2023 06:04:52 -0700 Brad Morrison wrote: > > Thanks for point these situations out Ken! The reason I joined the > GnuCash-User mailing lists was because I sent a link to an acquaintance > that does bookkeeping professionally and he texted back that the website > was down, he th

Re: [GNC] Help with downloading transactions.

2023-03-18 Thread Simon Roberts
I feel compelled to add my agreement with Alan. This kind of crime is on the rise and we're all vulnerable. Credit card companies insist on giving many fiscally prudent folks much higher credit limits than they actually use, and that just adds to the risk. Debit cards are worse since the protection

Re: [GNC] Temporary Website URL

2023-03-18 Thread Brad Morrison
Thanks for point these situations out Ken! The reason I joined the GnuCash-User mailing lists was because I sent a link to an acquaintance that does bookkeeping professionally and he texted back that the website was down, he then did a Google search and tried the GnuCash result on his own and t

Re: [GNC] Help with downloading transactions.

2023-03-18 Thread Alan A Holmes
I'm afraid I would disagree Phyllis. Having been scammed, through no fault of mine, I ALWAYS reconcile my accounts each month. 1. Banks do, and have made mistakes. Usually down to human error, though sometimes masked as being a computer error. 2. More importantly is fraudulent transactions. I've