Re: [GNC] Scheduled transaction for end of the day - bank interest

On Thursday, 31 July 2025 13:04:54 BST Fross, Michael via gnucash-user wrote: > > * Schedule the bank transactions for the first day of the month but it > > then doesn’t line up with the bank statement Hi Alex, Just a thought. Since you are editing the txn to put in the actual number charged,

Re: [GNC] Art Exhibition Sales Commission

On Tuesday, 29 July 2025 04:57:32 BST Geoffry Loats wrote: > My organisation has held an art exhibition. During which we sold pieces of > art on behalf of exhibitors. > We take a commission and forward the balance to the exhibitor/s. > I am aware that the commission itself is income. With the sales

Re: [GNC] Problem--probably simple for ya'll, but not me!!!!!!

On Tuesday, 22 July 2025 20:27:26 BST bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: > you are right about the print screen, but it includes both monitors and > a bunch of stuff, i should not be showing. So that is going to have to > be refined on my end. https://thelinuxcode.com/screenshots_linux_m

Re: [GNC] Problem--probably simple for ya'll, but not me!!!!!!

f. > > just a second and i will try and forward > an email that will make you feel great if you aren't on windows. > > On 7/22/25 9:33 AM, Maf. King wrote: > > On Tuesday, 22 July 2025 09:57:59 BST bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user > > > > wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] Problem--probably simple for ya'll, but not me!!!!!!

On Tuesday, 22 July 2025 09:57:59 BST bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: > These are great instructions. Hi b³ they were, you just didn't follow them! :-) "The downward triangle upper right" see attached screenshot. Maybe you can send us some screenshots of the various balances and

Re: [GNC] Enhancement Request

On Monday, 30 June 2025 00:26:46 BST Norm Samuelson wrote: > Alternatively, if I could add to the list of "actions", I would use that > existing field to flag this. Hi Norm, I believe the "Action" field is actually able to take free-form typed input, not just the entries provided in the drop-dow

Re: [GNC] No longer able to access my accounting software

On Wednesday, 11 June 2025 15:53:54 BST Vik Sha via gnucash-user wrote: > Following my previous message two minutes ago, I may add that I had upgraded > to Mac OS Sequoya 5.15 > GnuCash u > Version: 5.4, Build ID: 5.3-412-g53245caebf+(2023-09-23) I *think* you will need to update your GC. I'm

Re: [GNC] Spurious Account

On Thursday, 8 May 2025 09:53:32 BST David H wrote: > Hi Maf, > > Open it by right clicking the account name in the accounts tab and > selecting Open SubAccounts - never knew that was an option - only been > using Gnucash since 2010 :-) > > Cheers David H. thanks, David. I knew it wasn't hard t

Re: [GNC] GNUCash Ver 5.5 & 5.11 - Parse error wgen opening GNUCASH File

did you try the suggestions you were given to the original post? again, I suggest you try to get rid of the # characters in the file path, and any other special characters that may be lurking in the path name HTH, and please report back to the list! best, Maf. On Thursday, 8 May 2025 08:06:24

Re: [GNC] Spurious Account

On Tuesday, 6 May 2025 11:06:34 BST Graham Eastwood wrote: > Hi > I loaded a qif file from by bank account. Maybe connected to this I now have > a “Current Account+” which appears to replicate the “Current Account” I > created by renaming GnuCash’s “Checking Account”. It contains all the same > tra

Re: [GNC] gnc-fq-update

On Thursday, 1 May 2025 15:17:38 BST Fred Tydeman wrote: > > > > but did not see instructions on how to get gnc-fq-update. > > > > I am running GnuCash 5.11 > I have a feeling that GC v5 changed the "helper" wrapper scripts around F::Q, and they no longer exist as they did in prior versions.

Re: [GNC] FW: GNUCash Ver 5.5 & 5.11 - Parse error wgen opening GNUCASH File

On Wednesday, 30 April 2025 02:29:03 BST s.singh...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi > Installed ver 5.11 & started the App & am getting this Parse error. I tried > with Ver5.6, Ver 5.7 etc & same error. See attached. I'd try a path that does not contain the hash character (#) and see if GC can parse tha

Re: [GNC] Credit card reconciliation shows wrong total

On Monday, 28 April 2025 18:55:45 BST Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hi John. > Yes, my previous statement had an ending balance of CHF 1654.20 > > What's the next step? > F. It looks to me that the "discrepancy" results from some earlier month's reconcilliation. You can see that the GC "starting

Re: [GNC] How to merge one category ( in gnucash called account) via command line or graphical approach.

On Thursday, 10 April 2025 09:05:46 BST Shashi Gupta wrote: > *Is there any option to merge such accounts to any one > of them either via command line or via graphical menu.* > If you delete an account in the chart of accounts list, then GC should offer to move the transactions to some other acc

Re: [GNC] Problem with list?

On Thursday, 10 April 2025 06:20:49 BST Fred Erickson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 05:20:00 +0100 > > > > -- > > H! Looks like the only messages I see are from posters with gmail > accounts??? > This is not from a GMail acct. does it get through? Maf. ___

Re: [GNC] Tracking UnPaid Bills

On Thursday, 20 March 2025 15:08:12 GMT Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash- user wrote: > > PS --- I have a question for gnucash folks using the business features. > How do you treat (what date do you use) incoming bills that are NOT "due > upon receipt" but instead "due at some future date"? An

Re: [GNC] how to know the path of the current gnucash account set being used?

On Friday, 21 March 2025 02:52:08 GMT arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: > I just opened my gnucash and wanted the path and found I couldn't find it > there anywhere. yep, sure, I see the name of the file so I can do a search > and find it. but I'd guess it's available within gnucash somewhere

Re: [GNC] Invalid transaction type L

On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 14:42:03 GMT Geert Janssens wrote: > Hi Alan, Maf, > > txn type L stands for "Lot link transactions". It does exist Thanks Geert! every day is a learning day! Maf. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Invalid transaction type L

Hi Alan, I think that the message the txn type is an upper case i (for invoice) not a lower case L. that said, I don't know what's casuing the problem in the aging report. it is a while since i had to issue a credit note against an invoice. Anything logged in the trace file? Maybe try to p

Re: [GNC] Searching mailing lists

On Monday, 3 March 2025 00:54:21 GMT Brad Morrison wrote: > Hi Stan/GNUCash users, > > That Nabble link on that GNUCash mailing list search is still not > working for me - https://www.nabble.com/ > > If it does not work for others, should GNUCash contact Nabble for > support, remove that option,

Re: [GNC] No reports

On Friday, 28 February 2025 00:39:09 GMT Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > OR, is this a case of you see the report just fine on the screen but > printing it results in a blank page? There was a bug in one of the > libraries for one of the platforms and that may be your issue. I don't > remember the

Re: [GNC] Hidden Account Transactions Export

On Thursday, 27 February 2025 20:55:34 GMT Felix Yu wrote: > Hello, > There is currently no way to export balances (current or historical), Does the Account Summary report not get you close? One can specify a reporting date and choose to include/exclude hidden accounts quite easily. Select A

Re: [GNC] Issue with Backup and Log Files

On Saturday, 22 February 2025 15:10:43 GMT Ivan Miotto wrote: Hi welcome to the list Ivan. Please remember to "reply-all" or "reply-list" - others will be able to help more than me and others with the same issues might find a solution too! > 1. Why does my main file not generate backups in the

Re: [GNC] Simple report(s) wanted

On Tuesday, 21 January 2025 16:03:55 GMT Jediator wrote: > The report config should be part of the GNC database. Arguable (and has been argued at length), but it isn't at present. Saved report configs are stored in a discrete file in the user directories. See the FAQ for more. This does me

Re: [GNC] Payment received in two parts

On Friday, 13 December 2024 11:20:35 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > I sent a customer in India a quotation of £1960. They provide a purchase > order for £20 less - ie £1940. I think they had a cheek, but I said I > would accept it if they paid all bank charges. We received £1910. I assume > that they h

Re: [GNC] "House" in account name

On Saturday, 7 December 2024 22:05:59 GMT Fred Tydeman wrote: > In looking at my chart of accounts, why does every account name have a > little > "house" in front of the name? > Do you know, I'd never consciously noticed them! Presume it is shorthand for "account", possibly a hang over from the

Re: [GNC] How to record the transfer of securities directly from one broker to another

On Wednesday, 20 November 2024 06:17:28 GMT David Carlson wrote: > I opened a new brokerage account at a different provider and I asked them > to transfer all the securities directly from the previous provider without > selling and buying. This was allowed, I think, because they were all held > in

Re: [GNC] 1099's

On Saturday, 16 November 2024 13:20:59 GMT halatch1008 via gnucash-user wrote: > I still can Not find answer on how to select my Vendors to print a list of > my Vendors who I need to send 1099's to. > Thanks,Heidi LatchSent from my > Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Whats a 1099? is this so

Re: [GNC] Account Register not Populating

On Thursday, 14 November 2024 16:50:19 GMT R Losey wrote: > I don't know about this for sure (I guess it depends on the number of > transactions and the number of accounts); however, I have about 8 years of > data and my data file is 2.4M (I'm using the default - a compressed XML > file); your 136K

Re: [GNC] Permanent Highlight of one or more specific transactions

On Monday, 11 November 2024 11:08:55 GMT G R Hewitt wrote: > Is there a way to permanently highlight a specific transaction in the > register so as to find it again easily when scrolling through the register? > > I am aware of the search facility. > > Thanks in advance. > not that I can think o

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

On Sunday, 3 November 2024 15:31:24 GMT Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash- user wrote: > > PS -- know why we call them "bugs"? << the origin of the tern >> > > The story i was told many years ago was a dead moth shorting out some core memory module (or somesuch) in the very early days of st

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation question

On Monday, 23 September 2024 22:40:12 BST Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hi Maf. > > I understand reconciling the "Fund Out" - I compare the right part of the > window with what's stated on the credit card bill. > I have a hard time understanding the reconciliation of the "Funds In" part: > when I reco

Re: [GNC] How to record a transaction which covers a time period in the past which is not in GnuCash?

On Monday, 23 September 2024 18:09:15 BST R Losey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 8:20 AM Boniforti Flavio > > > Well, your opening balance for your credit cards should have been whatever > it was on 31 Dec... per your records below, that should have been > 1136.80-252.55 (884.25). Then your c

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation question

On Monday, 23 September 2024 18:31:48 BST Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Oh, ok! > So I have to tick "R"econcile on the left part (Funds In) as well?! Indeed, > by doing so it lets me finish the reconciliation. > Now I'm curious to understand why it has to be done like this - can you > explain? > F. To

Re: [GNC] General Journal scrolling

On Wednesday, 18 September 2024 04:34:45 BST Mark Penner wrote: > On Monday, September 16, 2024 1:55:14 AM CDT Owen Willows wrote: > > I have been very happy to use Gnucash over the past 2 years but I find a > > problem scrolling back when in the General Journal. As I enter > > transactions > > the

Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift?

On Tuesday, 3 September 2024 22:54:42 BST Kalpesh Patel wrote: > Couldn't one can elect to track paycheck by net rather than gross? > One could. but one probably shouldn't. Extending the thought exercise, one could elect to just record all income / expenses to the singular top-level accounts,

Re: [GNC] Adding ASSETS & LIABILITIES to sub accounts

Hi Luis, Welcome to GnuCash! On Friday, 31 May 2024 06:09:12 BST Luis Sini wrote: > Dear Jim, > Since GnuCash is open source, i was wondering how members are able to > contribute to it? Who adds features and make changes to the software. Im > not a programmer, but perhaps i could find someonw th

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back

On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 09:49:05 BST Peter Cuthbert via gnucash-user wrote: > The reason I suspect > is that the opening balance that it picked up seemed way too high but I > know of no way to make sure that the opening balance is the correct one. Only by visual inspection - if you completed th

Re: [GNC] 'Total Period' shows 'Total' for one bank account

On Saturday, 3 February 2024 15:16:40 GMT G R Hewitt wrote: > What's not to like? the length of time it takes to toast a marshmallow or a smore . ;-0 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences o

Re: [GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

I don't have this sort of rounding arrangement on my paychecks, but I do have similar with one shareholding I have. I suggest you use GC to model reality, as far as possible.. Each paycheck gives you pennies of a liability (loan) from your employer. So use a liability account in your GC tre

Re: [GNC] Two questions

On Tuesday, 9 January 2024 14:37:57 GMT Fred Bone wrote: > On 08 January 2024 at 16:35, Barry Mahon said: > > [...] > > > 2. I subdivided an a/c to create a 2024 version, using the latest bank > > account balance as the opening balance. All Ok, but the entries are in > > red I cannot find in

Re: [GNC] How to export reports to spreadsheet format(s)?

On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:11:26 GMT Eric Chapman wrote: > When I try to print to file from GnuCash 4.14, I only see the three > options in the screenshot attached: PDF, PostScript, and SVG. Hmmm… > > On 12/5/23 10:08, Eric Chapman wrote: > > I did find this, but it does not appear to have

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote upgrade

On Monday, 4 December 2023 07:55:05 GMT James Edmunds wrote: > I tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 . There was some file > ! Can't configure the distribution. You probably need to have 'make'. See I don't know the exact package names for Ubuntu, but it looks to me that you need

Re: [GNC] Find what was in Accounts Payable some date in the past.

On Monday, 27 November 2023 20:41:52 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > Business -> Payable Ageing > > gives me what is owned *today*, which is nothing. Can I find out what was > owed at the end of the accounting period? That's what I want. Short of > perhaps changing the date on the computer, which I'd r

Re: [GNC] Can I find transactions into an account that has only one split?

On Saturday, 25 November 2023 04:44:42 GMT Liz wrote: > > The new subscriber welcome message says > "Note that this list is configured NOT to automatically send replies > back to the list (as per > ). > That seems to be a dead link. Maf. > *** P

Re: [GNC] Last reconciled transactions have an error.

On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 11:25:16 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > > > Can I simply unreconcile them in this order? > > 1) 17/3/2023, > 2) 28/2/2023 > 3) 23/2/2023 > Yes. just unreconcile back to the known good date and work forwards again. I don't foresee any harm to your records (and a lo

Re: [GNC] Can I produce a trial balance as a simple CSV file?

On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 12:58:32 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > > I can see I can produce the trial balance as a PDF, but I can't see a way > to convert it to a CSV file, which I think he would prefer. The usual advice is the either: a. save the report as HTML b. select and copy the text of th

Re: [GNC] noobie question about split transactions

On Sunday, 19 November 2023 06:17:07 GMT Liz wrote: > > Certainly being involved in a major data loss made me wary about my > credit card. > And that is a clear example of why, IMHO, one should enter txns "on the go" (daily / weekly / whatever) and not rely on the bank's statement (or downloa

Re: [GNC] Trail balance Imbalance / multi-currency transaction

On Sunday, 19 November 2023 04:49:33 GMT G R Hewitt wrote: > I don't know if GC supports this, but when I was using Sage Line 50 you > could alter the VAT amount to match the invoice > before committing the transaction, and I often had to do this. > > G > I quite often have to include a line ite

Re: [GNC] Trail balance Imbalance / multi-currency transaction

On Saturday, 18 November 2023 15:45:07 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > > *I have discovered that's not the source of the problem, which explains why > it does not go away if I delete the transaction! * OK, that clears up one part of the mystery! > > Debit: Expenses -> Stock £214.45 > Credit:Assets

Re: [GNC] Trail balance Imbalance / multi-currency transaction

On Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:17:50 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > Unfortunately, when entering the transaction into GnuCash, I created a > split and put the £7 bank fee into Expense -> Bank Charges. The result is > that £7 is accounted for twice. I'm show it as an expense, but the bank > statement

Re: [GNC] Adjusting column width on Gnucash

Hello Olaide, Welcome to the list. In brief, you need to be very precise with your mouse and manage to drag the right-hand side of the credit column to the right to make it more than 0 pixels wide. It can be a very difficut thing to actually do, though. see: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C

Re: [GNC] Bill allocated to the wrong account

7;t > seem to see this "Assign as Payment" option on any transaction in the bank > account - including those where a single payment was made for a single > bill. > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 15:32, Maf. King wrote: > > On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 15:09:09 GMT David Ki

Re: [GNC] Bill allocated to the wrong account

On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 15:09:09 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 13:55, Maf. King wrote: > > On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 13:36:20 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > > Hi David. > > Hi Maf > > > I presume these are vendor bills and were ent

Re: [GNC] Bill allocated to the wrong account

On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 13:36:20 GMT David Kirkby wrote: > I have received a couple of bills from an electronics component supplier. > These should be allocated as "Stock" but I must have accidentally clicked > "Travel" instead.(I noticed this after doing a trial balance, and seeing > some t

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

On Monday, 13 November 2023 15:20:28 GMT Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > I set off to see where, but, in the course of my search, I tried to find > the number 10,443.43 in the account, as a baseline, but didn't find one. > > If I understand the process of reconciliation the number shoul

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

On Monday, 13 November 2023 07:51:20 GMT Liz wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:45:20 -0500 > > Ken Farley wrote: > > The files you want to open have names of the format " > Name>.gnucash". You need to find those files, without the .gcm or any > > Name> > > other suffix. > > A very old Gnucash file

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

On Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:56:11 BST Edwin Booth via gnucash-user wrote: > Back when I paid it, I just made a payment out of my bank checking account > straight to the CC company. Now, how do I assign that transaction? It’s not > a CC expense but it is an expense of some kind—just from a diff

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

On Thursday, 19 October 2023 07:04:39 BST Edwin Booth via gnucash-user wrote: > How do I now assign > all those transactions to their proper accounts without first importing > this OFX file into GnuCash? one step in the inport process is to assign the accounts. GC "learns" and will offer sugge

Re: [GNC] Residual Processes After Closing GnuCash

On Monday, 16 October 2023 14:31:10 BST Paul Kroitor wrote: > > This started in 5.1 and I was told that it was a known issue from 5.1 > through 5.3, fixed in 5.4, but I am definitely running 5.4 (from a file > called gnucash-5.4-1.setup from a file downloaded Oct 15th), and the issue > persists. R

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes hung

On Monday, 9 October 2023 16:52:17 BST David Carlson wrote: > Not sure exactly what happened in your case. But usually, if you can put > the focus on the "frozen" process, then Alt-F4 will kill it. > > > There are other ways as well in Linux, for example with htop. Ctrl-Alt-Escape is quite good

Re: [GNC] Columns

On Friday, 6 October 2023 18:34:54 BST Jose Fuenzalida wrote: > Hi , my name is Jose and I stared using Gnucash about a month ago and I have > a question : is there any way to add more columns to the Account page? I > mean it has only 3 columns : Account name, Description and total. I > understand

Re: [GNC] GnuCash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

On Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:03:31 BST Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user wrote: > Again,we age. Yes, we do. Too quickly to be going around in circles. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] I have a MacBook Pro

It isn't clear from what you say - did you already have GC working and have done some upgrades and now you can't get going again? If so, File -> Open {find your data file} might be something to try. 0.02 Maf. On Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:02:40 BST Edwin Booth wrote: > Hi. I cannot get GnuC

Re: [GNC] Transaction inconsistency when deleting account

On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 13:51:11 BST Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: > On 2023-09-04 21:28, Jediator wrote: > > Let's not to discuss whether it's a good idea or not to delete an > > account that contains transactions. It's a valid user function in GC to > > delete a non-empty account. > >

Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files

On Monday, 28 August 2023 11:44:54 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: > But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, fixing > the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to clean up > the multiple file/backup file apparent mess. +1. get everything RW and into a fol

Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files

On Monday, 28 August 2023 00:14:09 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > > No one ever requested this, I even said in a prior post to Barry specifically *never* to send his "production" GC file(s) to the list. I also note, and it may be a typo by Barry, but the user often being called t

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash

I've just had a thought on a possible reason the original file could not be saved. I may be barking up the wrong tree. Does Win have a maximum length for a filename? If Barry (OP) has been repeatedly opening and working on backups and backups of backups etc.., is it possible that repeated

Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files

On Friday, 25 August 2023 16:31:47 BST Mahon Finbar wrote: > As I said, I have had unresolved issues with creating .jpg files from MS. did you? sorry, must have missed that bit. is it easier to send a PNG? that should get through as an attached image well enough. > > I'' try creating jpg fro

[GNC] Fwd: Re: Issues with gnucash files

CCing to the list. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files Date: Friday, 25 August 2023, 13:52:20 BST From: Maf. King To: Mahon Finbar On Friday, 25 August 2023 09:58:22 BST you wrote: > Thanks to all. > > On the issue of rights, I h

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

On Sunday, 13 August 2023 19:41:29 BST Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > Could I suggest I try saving individually GNU files from the period > before 30.7.2023, which is when the issue of not being able to save the > files started, as .txt files and sent them over? Barry. This whole thin

Re: [GNC] How to transfer all my accounts etc. to new computer. Linux version

On Sunday, 13 August 2023 01:40:15 BST Liz wrote: > Gnucash opens, but a lot of my preferences are gone, and even which is > my next invoice number. > Hi Liz. I'm reasonably certain (but have not checked), that the "counters" for the next invoice number etc are stored within the datafile itse

Re: [GNC] How to transfer all my accounts etc. to new computer.

On Friday, 11 August 2023 15:00:35 BST Shevach Pepper wrote: >I’m sure this is really simple but I’m not successful. > >I installed gnucash on new computer but I can’t find an option to >import all my old accounts from old computer. I’m sure this has been >asked before, but I can’t

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

On Monday, 7 August 2023 16:03:22 BST Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > You can see why I am confused and very worried that I have lost all the > recent data. > You probably haven't lost work, at least not before the last successful save. the problem comes in finding the work you'v

Re: [GNC] gnucash complaining about libdbi version

See the post fron Friday by John Ralls "MySQL Backend" does that accurately describe your problem? Maf. On Sunday, 6 August 2023 08:21:11 BST Joost van Hooren wrote: > Dear GnuCash community, > > for years I've been happily using GnuCash on Windows, storing my data in > mariadb. Unfortunately

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

On Monday, 24 July 2023 12:34:58 BST Maf. King wrote: > press tab twice. and repeat until you have 3.40 of > assorted delicious confectionary. > ahem "£3.49 of assorted". damn fat fingers! Maf. ___ gnucash-user m

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

On Monday, 24 July 2023 12:05:24 BST Chris Green wrote: > > Can someone run me through how to do this, i.e. enter something like > the above where there are three items making up a single transaction > from 'cashInPocket' to 'shopkeeper'. OK. I've opened my petty cash account from the CoA. ( I

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

On Monday, 24 July 2023 10:38:35 BST Chris Green wrote: > Maybe I should put this a different way, the answers so far don't seem > to quite address my question, probably because I'm not describing what > I'm trying to do. > > So, very simply, say I am buying sweets in a shop and I select:- > >

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

On Friday, 14 July 2023 12:34:28 BST Fross, Michael wrote: > I run multiple instances at the same time, but you have to open different > data files. I’d keep them in different directories to be tidy. > I don't do it often, but have had occasion to have GC side-by-side on 2 data files at the sam

Re: [GNC] Backup

luck, Maf. On Wednesday, 28 June 2023 11:49:46 BST you wrote: > David You are not tell me if the backup is working or not. > ThanksJames Baxter kangaro...@yahoo.com > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:35 AM, Maf. King wrote: On Wednesday, 28 June 2

Re: [GNC] Backup

On Wednesday, 28 June 2023 00:46:45 BST James Baxter via gnucash-user wrote: > I have a backup drive. I have looked over it and I don't see it. Does > Gnucash have a backup. Or what. ThanksJames Baxter kangaro...@yahoo.com > Hi James. If you are using the default XML file to store your GC data,

Re: [GNC] gnucash - Can't Save file

On Monday, 26 June 2023 17:42:21 BST Neil Campbell wrote: > > The bug has been reported. Gnucash can't save to a compressed file, the > > fix is due any day now. However, 5.1 work fine if you want to upgrade > > now. > Really? Please tell me how I can recover over 2 hours of work on GnuCash ver >

Re: [GNC] Reversing a finished credit card reconciliation

On Sunday, 25 June 2023 14:52:50 BST David T. wrote: > Both previous replies were on target-- but, I do wonder how you finished the > first reconciliation, since GnuCash won't activate the finish button until > the Difference value is zero. If the transaction was wrong, the balance > would be non-z

Re: [GNC] Reversing a finished credit card reconciliation

Hi Gregory, welcome to the list and Gnucash. Just ignore that the starting balance is wrong, go through the reconcilliation as normal aiming for the correct ending balance. should sort itself out. HTH, Maf On Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:08:01 BST Gregory Donavon wrote: > I hope you can help m

Re: [GNC] automatically account for gst on random purchases

On Sunday, 18 June 2023 03:06:28 BST Karl May wrote: > > Any suggestions how this can be automated such that the default is a > transaction split and application of a default GST rate? > > Thanks > Hi Karl, If your "random" transactions are mostly from a regular set of suppliers, then I trul

Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 20:00:48 BST David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: > gunzip does not care about the name. It does, sort of. more than you might expect for such an ancient Unix program. from the man page: gunzip takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each file

Re: [GNC] balance of interests between users and developers

Thank you Geert, for a considered response and reminder of the limitations of a (all?) volunteer groups. I can imagine that it was disheartening for the dev team to be met with so many bugs and so much vitriol over the issues some use-cases found with the 5.0 release. I can also understand the

Re: [GNC] New Accounts do not Display

On Monday, 24 April 2023 02:58:02 BST Murugan Muruganandam wrote: > please check in edit account if the hidden flag is enabled, > > Or View -> Filter By -> Other -> Show [unused | zero-balance] accounts is enabled. HTH, Maf. ___ gnucash-user ma

Re: [GNC] Exporting reports to spreadsheet

On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 22:03:56 BST George Riner wrote: > I suspect LO is being way more "clever"! > > :George Yeah. File->Open in LO calc seems the most bullet proof route around any "cleverness" in LO... or the copy-and -paste as David T suggests. Maf. _

Re: [GNC] Exporting reports to spreadsheet

I _think_ that LibreOffice is more clever than just looking at the file extension. ISTR that LO examines the file as it opens, and decides if a text editor (writer) would be more appropriate than Calc for the contents of the file, regardless of name.extension And HTML is "text" 0.02 M

Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

On Friday, 24 March 2023 12:54:19 GMT p.f.cuthb...@btinternet.com p.f.cuthbert--- via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi Folks > > The end of the UK Tax Year approaches and I am thinking about my tax > return. When I used Quicken there was a report that listed every > transcation in particular accounts whi

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

On Tuesday, 7 March 2023 09:34:59 GMT aeg via gnucash-user wrote: > Is there a reason why GnuCash version numbers don't follow a sequence 4.00, > 4.01, 4.02, etc. instead of 4.0. 4.1, 4.2? I find it a little confusing > that 4.9 is older than 4.12, and that 4.902 comes just before 5.0 > > Alan >

Re: [GNC] Feature Request

On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:14:06 GMT Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Third, with respect to your actual request, what do you mean by > "Unrecognized account"? > > > > UNRECONSIlED account somehow highlighted in the Account Summary report. I read it as unreconciled HTH, Maf.

Re: [GNC] Can one add notes / memos / whatever to reconciled transactions?

On Sunday, 5 February 2023 09:37:44 GMT Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 at 04:45, Phyllis Bruce wrote: > > What happens when you try it? As far as I know, there is nothing to > > prevent it. > > I could not edit it - no error message or anything, but could not be edited. Hi Dave,

Re: [GNC] "Nested" Expense Category Report

I think the profit and loss report may be a start point for you, Steve. the option "Parent Account subtotals : Show Subtotals" might be useful. HTH, Maf. On Friday, 3 February 2023 22:43:20 GMT Steve Cohen wrote: > Actually it's even worse than the example shown. Had there been no > transactio

Re: [GNC] Questions about setting up new accounts from brand new user

On Monday, 23 January 2023 17:10:51 GMT Ann Bowes wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to set up a simple manual checking account for a small farm > business. I've down-loaded the gnucash program to my laptop (linux > zorin OS), and have tried to open new accounts, but am completely > stumped as to

Re: [GNC] Exporting Reports to CSV

On Monday, 23 January 2023 16:35:21 GMT Phyllis Bruce wrote: > I found out how to export transactions, but how can I export my Tax report > as CSV? My only options are HTML or TXF, neither allow me to reformat in > Excel. > LibreOffice calc can work on the HTML export; I imagine that excel is

Re: [GNC] exporting from gnucash to Excel

On Sunday, 15 January 2023 at 19:39:36 GMT+3, Maf. King > wrote: > On Sunday, 15 January 2023 16:30:38 GMT Paul W wrote: > > Thanks Maf. That seems like a neat solution. I'm almost there. > > > > Because I'm on the Flat Rate Scheme my Box 6 figure needs to be

Re: [GNC] Entering Dividend Confusion

On Sunday, 22 January 2023 04:50:47 GMT xboxboy.mageia+GnuCash wrote: > > Thanks: Now which page/account/ledger do I do this on? The dividend > income one? the company dividend income one? the company stock one?? > When the dividends are being reinvested automatically, I enter the transaction

Re: [GNC] exporting from gnucash to Excel

On Sunday, 15 January 2023 16:30:38 GMT Paul W wrote: > Thanks Maf. That seems like a neat solution. I'm almost there. > Because I'm on the Flat Rate Scheme my Box 6 figure needs to be the total of > sales including VAT but apart from my Accounts Receivable which goes to > zero once the invoice is

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