Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
On 6 Aug 2024, at 05:06, John Ralls wrote: > > Michael, > > I am, though not as long as you or your dad. I didn’t get serious about it > until the late 90s. Neither of my children are interested either. On the rare > occasions I find time I’m also working on getting my family history work >

[GNC] Fwd: Fund management without an actual account

2024-08-05 Thread Alan Johnson via gnucash-user
Daniel, I would suggest that you use the second savings account and it would help with the over spending. I think it would look something like this, please forgive formatting as I'm on mobile, but you should get the idea. Checking debit 10k / salary credit 10k Credit checking 1k / debit savin

[GNC] Fwd: Fund management without an actual account

2024-08-05 Thread Daniel Sheffield
Hi Richard, thanks for your reply. Alan had a similar suggestion. Since I forgot to cc the mailing list in my response to Alan, I'll include it here in case it is helpful to someone reading the mail archive. Thanks for all the input, Daniel -- In the beginning Kibo created the Internet. Now the I

Re: [GNC] Fund management without an actual account

2024-08-05 Thread Alan Johnson via gnucash-user
I would suggest a sub account under your bank account, which will have the effect of reducing your available cash balance, so you don't spend it. If you need to spend it, then you can transfer from assetts:savings:vacation to assetts:checking to spend it. Also, you could open another savings ac

Re: [GNC] Fund management without an actual account

2024-08-05 Thread Daniel Sheffield
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your reply. You recommendation happens to be how I achieved it so far too - but it has a few issues with reporting: * The phony asset and liability cancel each other out, so no net effect (make sense) * Until I make the corresponding expense I would like the fact I "owe mone

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Mark at Lorimark
CP/M... oh my! Cut my teeth on T.E.I. computers with CP/M. *sigh* good times! ~mark petryk ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com On 8/5/24 14:29, Michael Hendry wrote: Are you a genealogy addict too, John? I built a Nascom 2 Z80 machine in 1979, with Microsoft BASIC and a cassette tape drive

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
That could be part of it, but I have had occasions when it has locked up on me, with no response to mouse or keyboard, sometimes preceded by a period of very slow response to input. Regards, Michael > On 5 Aug 2024, at 20:28, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > If Auto Updates are enabled, that c

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
Are you a genealogy addict too, John? My late father was shown a tablet stone in the Old Portpatrick churchyard by his grandfather when he was a teenager. This took his ancestry back to one Thomas Margbanks (b abt 1567 d Aug 1637, and he was hooked for life. I built a Nascom 2 Z80 machine in 19

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If Auto Updates are enabled, that could be why your system rebooted itself. MacOS gets security updates every 2 months and will reboot to fully install them. The last few came out in March, May and July. Regards, Adrien On 8/5/24 11:41 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: Thanks, John, I’ve tried and f

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
Thanks, John, I’ve tried and failed to reproduce the problem starting from the .gnucash file I’d saved from before the crash. My Mac had been running for several days with a lot of open apps, and it was around this time the Mac OS shut itself down and rebooted a couple of times for no apparent

Re: [GNC] Fund management without an actual account

2024-08-05 Thread Andrew Beattie
Hi Daniel I’ve understood that you want to allocate some of your bank balance(s) to savings goal(s) and then have a "balance available" after setting the money aside. It is a question I’ve asked myself if the past and you prompted me to work out how I could to do it. I’m no Gnucash expert an