Re: Price Editor/Database lag

2018-04-02 Thread David via gnucash-user
PS: No, swap does not prevent this. I did notice that it struck just once during the first symbol, and then not again until I did a null update, so maybe it trashes the in-memory object after every mod., and reinstates it from scratch. But for that, I would expect the delay to be more synchr

Re: Price Editor/Database lag

2018-04-02 Thread David via gnucash-user
I just discovered my swap was all turned off. It might also explain very un-VM messages like "Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyze the problem and send a report to the developers." Now I have a huge, dedicated drive SSD swap (which one article said was a bad

Re: Price Editor/Database lag

2018-04-01 Thread David via gnucash-user
John, OK, that makes sense, except the lag can occur pretty randomly as I select lists of symbols, select symbols from that list, ask for an add window, or work in the add window with date, price. (I select the most recent month end nav so it is cloned with the add, just needs a new date and p

Re: finance-quote error

2017-11-03 Thread David via gnucash-user
Any F:Q gurus out there that can tell us a different place to go, how to swithc? -Original Message- From: Maf. King To: gnucash-user ; DGPickett Sent: Fri, Nov 3, 2017 12:36 pm Subject: Re: finance-quote error On Friday, 3 November 2017 16:08:39 GMT DGPickett via gnucash-user w

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-14 Thread David via gnucash-user
Jumping in a little late here. It occurs to me that all my dividend transactions are simple ones, with an income account split, and a brokerage cash account split. In other words, money comes from the income account (e.g., Income:Dividends) and goes to the brokerage account (Assets:Brokerage) .

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-14 Thread David via gnucash-user
I guess it's lucky that John only wants to load his data from the flash drive, then. John, be aware that GnuCash always tries to load the last file it had open; if the folder isn't available when you fire it up, you will receive an error. Just be sure the USB stick is inserted and mounted befor