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

2025-08-02 Thread Michael Hendry
Stepping back from the solutions offered, could I ask why this is so important for the OP? If it’s to avoid accidentally overdrawing the account, then set the scheduled transaction for the last day of the month with the lowest expected interest payment, which can then be edited when next you re

Re: [GNC] Delete All Transactions

2025-06-15 Thread Michael Hendry
d that doesn’t involve laborious one-at-a-time transaction deletions. Sorry for the noise, Michael > On 15 Jun 2025, at 10:53, Michael Hendry wrote: > > PS I realise that I can use File -> Export -> Export Accounts to get all the > same account names, but presumably these will hav

Re: [GNC] Delete All Transactions

2025-06-15 Thread Michael Hendry
e, but better than deleting six years of transactions one-by-one! Michael > On 15 Jun 2025, at 09:43, Michael Hendry wrote: > > My Rotary Club has an associated Charitable Trust which is to be wound up on > 30th June and replaced by a “SCIO” (Scottish Charitable Incorporated >

[GNC] Delete All Transactions

2025-06-15 Thread Michael Hendry
My Rotary Club has an associated Charitable Trust which is to be wound up on 30th June and replaced by a “SCIO” (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) on 1st July, which will reduce the personal liability of the office bearers. As far as Gnucash is concerned, the two organisations are

Re: [GNC] 5.1.1 problems

2025-04-02 Thread Michael Hendry
umber to 5.12. > > I can’t, at least with brief testing, replicate either of the problems you’re > having. M1 MBP, macOS 15.4 release. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On 31 Mar 2025, at 23:43, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> PS Although I have made several d

Re: [GNC] 5.1.1 problems

2025-03-31 Thread Michael Hendry
-03-29) …and the same problems mentioned below remain. > On 31 Mar 2025, at 11:10, Michael Hendry wrote: > > michaelhendry@iMac MacOS % ./gnucash-cli --version > Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli > GnuCash 5.11 > Build ID: 5.11+(2025-03-29) &g

[GNC] 5.1.1 problems

2025-03-31 Thread Michael Hendry
michaelhendry@iMac MacOS % ./gnucash-cli --version Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli GnuCash 5.11 Build ID: 5.11+(2025-03-29) michaelhendry@iMac MacOS % uname -a Darwin iMac.local 24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:22:00 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.

Re: [GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-02-22 Thread Michael Hendry
No need to apologise, John, I know you’ve got plenty to do. Michael > On 21 Feb 2025, at 18:23, John Ralls wrote: > > Michael, > > Sorry, no, I’ve been busy with other stuff and haven’t had time to work on it. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Feb

Re: [GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-02-21 Thread Michael Hendry
ohn Ralls > > >> On Feb 2, 2025, at 00:00, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> PS See below >> >>> On 1 Feb 2025, at 17:35, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> Michael, >>> >>> OK, that explains what happened. There should be weekl

[GNC] Gnucash crash report

2025-02-04 Thread Michael Hendry
investigation, and then on how to get GC running again. Regards, Michael Hendry  ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Print Accounts

2025-02-02 Thread Michael Hendry
the information is all there, and pencil and paper (with or without an eraser) should enable you to put something more elegant together. Michael > > On 2/2/25 6:26 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> Hello, Bob, >> >> Start Gnucash >> Click on the tab for Accounts >

Re: [GNC] Print Accounts

2025-02-02 Thread Michael Hendry
Hello, Bob, Start Gnucash Click on the tab for Accounts Click on File=>Export=>Export Account Tree to CSV Adjust the Export Settings to set a filename (e.g. Accounts.csv) and choose a destination folder (e.g. Downloads) Click Next The output is in plain text, so you can open it in any text edito

Re: [GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-02-02 Thread Michael Hendry
revious run of the report? Yes. I’m not sure if I’d just opened the .gnucash file and GC had reloaded all the accounts and reports from the last run, or had just switched to an already open instance of GC from another application. M > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Jan 31, 20

Re: [GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-02-01 Thread Michael Hendry
a previous run of the report? > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Jan 31, 2025, at 23:32, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Thanks, John, >> >> Here are the first few lines from yesterday’s copy of ~/Library/Application >> Support/Gnucash/saved-reports-

Re: [GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-01-31 Thread Michael Hendry
have a default filter. > For example the Balance Sheet Report will by default load all Asset, > Liability, and Equity accounts and the Income Statement Report will load all > Expense and Income accounts. In those cases it’s normal to not have an > Accounts option. Other reports, mos

Re: [GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-01-31 Thread Michael Hendry
mes in free text, or are the accounts identified in some other way? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Jan 31, 2025, at 03:35, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Version: 5.9 >> Build ID: 5.9+(2024-09-28) >> >> michaelhendry@iMac ~ % uname -a &

[GNC] Saved reports "forget" their target accounts

2025-01-31 Thread Michael Hendry
Version: 5.9 Build ID: 5.9+(2024-09-28) michaelhendry@iMac ~ % uname -a Darwin iMac.local 24.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:02:27 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 I’ve been having a recurring problem with variations on this error message: GASDS Report for 2

Re: [GNC] Accounting for Income and Expenses from Multiple Business Locations

2024-12-08 Thread Michael Hendry
On 7 Dec 2024, at 20:45, Gary Kulp wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd be appreciative if someone could illustrate how to account for income and > expenses from multiple business locations. For example, if I were to account > for five hair salons in five cities, I would need to account for the >

Re: [GNC] Liabilities vs Expenses.

2024-11-22 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 21 Nov 2024, at 19:08, Griffin wrote: > > I'm no accountant, so I'm wondering what the difference is between > liabilities and expenses, and the importance of that difference. Nor I, so my comments are not definitive. > > I currently have GnuCash set up so that everything I spend is an

Re: [GNC] Postpone Reconciliation

2024-11-20 Thread Michael Hendry
On 20 Nov 2024, at 08:12, Liz wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:54:54 - > "Fred Bone" mailto:f...@mandfb.me.uk>> wrote: > >>> Hi, Barry, >>> >>> When the time comes to complete a reconciliation which has been >>> postponed because of lack of time or information, simply open the >>> account

Re: [GNC] Postpone Reconciliation

2024-11-19 Thread Michael Hendry
Hi, Barry, When the time comes to complete a reconciliation which has been postponed because of lack of time or information, simply open the account to be reconciled and click on the Reconcile button. You’ll be prompted for the same information as before (date of statement and its final balanc

Re: [GNC] Detailed Search

2024-09-07 Thread Michael Hendry
I’m Treasurer of a Rotary Club, which keeps its books on a cash basis - so can’t use the business features necessary for invoicing. (For this reason, I have to ask members NOT to pay by electronic means before the 1st July - early payments by cash and cheque can hit the books on or after the 1st

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
llege of General Practitioners journal, and picked up two early and readily-treatable cancers in that 100. Perhaps we should take this conversation off the GnuCash List? Regards, Michael > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Aug 5, 2024, at 12:29, Michael Hendry

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
nabled, 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

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
but bad practice by 1999 when > Tom quit working on it. Too bad nobody’s given it the thorough overhaul it > needs. Even so modern OS design makes it pretty unlikely that it could cause > another program, never mind macOS, to crash. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >>

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
at I’ll be > able to figure it out and fix it. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Aug 3, 2024, at 06:04, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Sorry, John, >> >> I failed to follow-through on this because of family illness. I did get as >> far as taking

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-03 Thread Michael Hendry
Are you closing the Scheduled Transaction Editor tab between uses or just > clicking different SXes to edit? While I’m able to edit two SXes at once it > doesn’t seem from your description that that’s what you’re doing. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Jun 23, 2024, a

[GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
Further to my recent crash report: Start to reconcile a bank account. Edit a pension payment during reconciliation because the regular payment has gone up Open the Scheduled Transaction editor and adjust for new payment. Go on with the reconciliation until the next pension increase prompts the

Re: [GNC] Crash Report

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
plenty of other things I can find to do in the meantime on this fine sunny day in Scotland. Michael > On 23 Jun 2024, at 08:19, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Here are the first few lines of a crash report that came up this morning as I > was reconciling a credit card account. I’m not

[GNC] Crash Report

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
report if that would be useful. Regards, Michael Hendry Process: Gnucash [48185] Path: /Applications/Gnucash 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version: 5.5-1 (5.5-1) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

2024-05-26 Thread Michael Hendry
Hi, Michael, We’ve corresponded about this in the past. I was keen to keep track of restricted funds within GC in a way which would make unspent restricted income persist as restricted funds beyond the year end, and you suggested the use of a Liability account for this purpose, Unfortunately,

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Hendry
On 15 Apr 2024, at 01:45, Oleander via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs&Maintenance? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account so that my "Hou

[GNC] Extract from Crash Report

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hendry
, Michael Hendry - Translated Report (Full Report Below) - Process: Gnucash [90913] Path: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version

Re: [GNC] Crash report

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hendry
On 2 Nov 2023, at 03:16, john wrote: > > Michael, > > That's enough of the crash report to figure out what's going on: It needs a > NULL check before the GTK_IS_WIDGET at > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/d617129db83b37cc12b3c2434c55e73efb4d98d6/gnucash/gnome/gnc-plugin-page-report.c

Re: [GNC] DOS Payroll, Inventory, A/R, A/P, and G/L program

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hendry
On 1 Nov 2023, at 14:47, Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > On Tue, Oct 31 at 6:40 AM Michael Hendry wrote: > >I have some accounts in TAS Books which > >I created and maintained on Windows XP > > Me too. I’v

[GNC] Crash report

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hendry
ash as being involved, Is this of any use to the development team? I could obviously send the whole report as an attachment if that would help. Regards, Michael Hendry - Translated Report (Full Report Below) - Proc

Re: [GNC] keyboard shortcut - how to implement for open/close splits?

2023-09-12 Thread Michael Hendry
On 12 Sep 2023, at 18:17, George Riner wrote: > > I really wish there was a keyboard shortcut to open/close the Splits on the > transaction I'm in. > > Is there some edit I can make to a file somewhere in gnucash that would make > this effect? > > :George > > GnuCash Version: 4.13 > Build

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

2023-08-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 7 Aug 2023, at 10:46, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > OK, lets try to get to the bottom of this. > > When I say I have had issues, I am unaware that I should not take the > suggestion of 'open anyway' unless > > I have tried several times to get an answer to why I have had th

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

2023-07-24 Thread Michael Hendry
On 24 Jul 2023, at 12:05, Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:06:26AM +0100, Maf. King wrote: >> 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

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

2023-07-23 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 23 Jul 2023, at 12:02, Fred Bone wrote: > > But aren't you supposed to record each collection separately for GASDS > purposes? What happens if the two weeks are in different tax years? Ah, I hadn’t thought about that aspect, but Chris had mentioned earlier that as his church is not a re

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

2023-07-23 Thread Michael Hendry
On 23 Jul 2023, at 10:03, Chris Green wrote: > >> > Petty Cash is also used in the UK for this. …but is primarily a mechanism used for staff to make small purchases of office sundries where setting up an account with the vendor is unnecessary and it’s not appropriate for the member of staff

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

2023-07-22 Thread Michael Hendry
On 22 Jul 2023, at 17:58, c...@isbd.net wrote: >> > But what if one has cash from two collections to go to the same account. > I.e. a collection on 22nd July and a collection on 29th July both > paid in at the same time? > Record the collections individually as Assets:Current Assets:Cash recei

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

2023-07-21 Thread Michael Hendry
Hello again Chris. Comments inserted below: On 21 Jul 2023, at 09:09, Chris Green wrote: > > I quite often seem to have cases where several 'items' (see below for > the type of thing I mean) are paid for with a single payment to/from a > bank account. What is a good way to record this sort of

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

2023-07-16 Thread Michael Hendry
On 15 Jul 2023, at 11:28, Chris Green wrote: > >> > I occasionally run two copies of GnuCash and there don't appear to be > any significant issues when I do this. It's quite a rare occurrence > though as, with small (one year only) database files a GnuCash > instance starts very quickly so I j

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

2023-07-15 Thread Michael Hendry
On 14 Jul 2023, at 13:24, Chris Green wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 01:06:36PM +0100, Maf. King wrote: >> 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 dire

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Jul 2023, at 08:01, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:51:39PM -0700, Vincent Dawans wrote: >> Leaving aside the why you need 2 sets of books, I'll just focus on the how. >> >> First you need to decide if the money in and money out really needs to be >> classified as income

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Michael Hendry
Thanks, Michael. IIRC, we exchanged some posts on the list some years ago, when I created Liability accounts for donations that were earmarked by the donors for particular purposes and later had to backtrack, following the advice of the accountant who examines our books. Indeed, I think you may

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Michael Hendry
On 1 Jun 2023, at 02:50, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: > > michael > > for Bursary accounting purposes you can use the liability option > > Bursary account funding from the donor > Cr Liability: Bursary:Donor 1 : $1000 > Dr Assets: Bank : $ 1000 > Payment to student invoice > Dr Assets: Bank :

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-05-31 Thread Michael Hendry
On 31 May 2023, at 20:46, Vincent Dawans wrote: > > Personally I would create your Discounts and Bursary accounts as income > accounts, possibly even as subaccounts of your main income account for that > product/service. Yes they will only have rebates (debits) in them, but they > are not an

[GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-05-31 Thread Michael Hendry
More of a bookkeeping query than a GnuCash problem, but here goes… I am a trustee of a local jazz education charity, the main event being a jazz summer school with residential and non-residential options. We offer discounts of 5% for two or more family members attending, 10% for group bookings,

Re: [GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-05 Thread Michael Hendry
Thanks all, I eventually found this line in the accelerator-map file ; (gtk_accel_path "/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/JumpLinkedInvoiceAction" “”) and edited it so that it now reads (gtk_accel_path "/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/JumpTransactionAction" "j”) If I remember correctly, the accele

Re: [GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-05 Thread Michael Hendry
On 5 May 2023, at 03:10, Murugan Muruganandam wrote: > > added note this was installed as per 4.9 release notes. > > --- > Change the handling of accelerator maps. Gtk no

Re: [GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-04 Thread Michael Hendry
combination is commented out in the accelerator map file. I’ll have a look at the release notes. Regards, Michael > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 5/4/23 9:12 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> On Tuesday (2nd May) I upgraded to version 5.1.1 on my iMac (Ventura >> 13.3.

[GNC] Lost Keyboard Accelerator feature

2023-05-04 Thread Michael Hendry
On Tuesday (2nd May) I upgraded to version 5.1.1 on my iMac (Ventura 13.3.1), and have lost the use of Cmd-1, Cmd-2 and Cmd-3 as keyboard accelerators to change between Basic Ledger, Autosplit Ledger and Transaction Journal views. Cmd-j switches between accounts, as before. The accelerator-map

[GNC] Site certificate expiry warning

2023-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and I’ve just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as dangerous because its site certificate expired recently. I can get through by overriding the warnings, but I don’t think I should be advising others to do so.

Re: [GNC] Saved Report Configurations

2023-02-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Feb 2023, at 16:39, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I do the same. I have general configurations saved, but anything particular > to that solitary instance of the report, I do not save as part of the > configuration. Those will be one-offs so no need to save them as a config, > just run a

Re: [GNC] Entry of unknown transaction

2023-02-04 Thread Michael Hendry
On 4 Feb 2023, at 11:58, Jeff wrote: > > I have discovered several transactions that show up in one account but do not > show up in any other existing account. Regardless of what the bank image > shows of where the check was deposited. > > I.E. I have a deposit slip that shows it went to our

Re: [GNC] Zero balances in report

2022-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
On 13 Aug 2022, at 14:08, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > I am running Linux and GnuCash 4.11 > I do an Account Summary report. > I have set the options to not show zero balances. > Yet, the report shows many zero balances. > The attached screen shot shows part of the report > along with the options. >

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-28 Thread Michael Hendry
On 28 Apr 2022, at 11:00, David H wrote: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user > Thanks, David, Here’s a link into the thread I was looking for: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094869.html Michael _

Re: [GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

2022-04-28 Thread Michael Hendry
In the process of examining a bug in the MRU a couple of years ago, I asked about adjusting the maximum number of files in the MRU, and was told (by John Ralls?) how to do this on my iMac - I now have 6. Unfortunately, I can’t trace the correspondence now, and no doubt the configuration of “max

Re: [GNC] change default behavior of ctrl-PgDn

2022-03-25 Thread Michael Hendry
As an alternative way to enter several transactions earlier than the current date and leave the cursor at the bottom, you could try filtering the current view of an account in the register so that only the most recent transactions are visible. That way, when you complete the historic transaction

Re: [GNC] change default behavior of ctrl-PgDn

2022-03-25 Thread Michael Hendry
On 25 Mar 2022, at 01:45, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I don't think the date itself is relevant. What you want is to get to a new > blank transaction, correct? > > I have the same problem using 4.9 on MacOS BigSur. I'm not sure when this > started. As far as I know, there is no preference.

Re: [GNC] Managing multiple vehicles

2022-02-09 Thread Michael Hendry
I do the bookkeeping for my Rotary Club, and have to keep track of individual donations from members in order to claim Gift Aid on these donations. I’m constrained in that I need to keep the donors’ names confidential in reports to the club but need to identify the donors for the claim to HMRC.

Re: [GNC] Repeatable segmentation fault

2021-12-19 Thread Michael Hendry
split the single deposit from the Club’s bank account into the Charity’s as ten individual transactions, and experiment with various combined deposits into BookA. Michael > On 19 Dec 2021, at 08:06, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Here is the most recent crash report following a change to the d

[GNC] Repeatable segmentation fault

2021-12-19 Thread Michael Hendry
Here is the most recent crash report following a change to the date range of a saved report: Process: Gnucash [13484] Path: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version: 4.4-1 (4.4-1) Code Type:

Re: [GNC] Where would enter revenue that could be paid to shareholders?

2021-12-05 Thread Michael Hendry
On 5 Dec 2021, at 11:39, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > If a company can potentially pay out X pounds, but has not paid out any at > all, where would that be entered in GnuCash? I assume its a liability, but > should it be entered into liabilities, or perhaps retained earnings? I’m not an account

Re: [GNC] Report printing of annual transactions

2021-11-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 7 Nov 2021, at 17:37, sydnorbill...@bellsouth.net wrote: > > I had posted previously in trying to print a volume of year/y transactions > for a reference compilation in black and white of all entries in account > number order for any given year, I couldn't get the amounts to be included, > and

Re: [GNC] question from newbie

2021-11-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 6 Nov 2021, at 21:40, Shevach Pepper wrote: > > Hello there, > 'I'm having trouble on how to record buying groceries on Jan. 1 with a > head check for Feb. 1 > What I understood from the manual that this is not an expense but a > liablity but I don't understand if I should make two

Re: [GNC] Has bugs-admin been hacked? Re: [Bug 797953] RFE: provide access to filter-by on right-mouse-click in Accounts register

2021-11-05 Thread Michael Hendry
g SEOs are thieves stealing developer time! > > Am 05.11.21 um 11:22 schrieb Michael Hendry: >> I’ve received several emails like this recently, all ostensibly related to >> bugs I had reported, but the text is not relevant to the bug, and has >> numerous suspiciou

[GNC] Has bugs-admin been hacked? Re: [Bug 797953] RFE: provide access to filter-by on right-mouse-click in Accounts register

2021-11-05 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve received several emails like this recently, all ostensibly related to bugs I had reported, but the text is not relevant to the bug, and has numerous suspicious URLs which I haven’t followed. The text doesn’t appear in the comments section relating to the bugs. Michael Hendry > On 4

Re: [GNC] Export Current Search

2021-11-02 Thread Michael Hendry
On 2 Nov 2021, at 07:31, Mike Stillingfleet wrote: > > Dear GNUCash Forum, > > Firstly I how that I have posted this correctly. > > I have read in the GNU Cash help that if I have focus on the current search I > should see 4 export options and one of those will be File->Export->Export > Acti

Re: [GNC] Lost my top level aka Master account

2021-09-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 6 Sep 2021, at 15:49, Mom wrote: > > Dear All: > > I have been keeping my checkbook register on a Mac Powerbook computer via > GnuCash since at least 2014. I recently migrated to a new-to-me Mac and when > I open my GnuCash files, I no longer seem to have the top level account > (master) f

Re: [GNC] Account report with transactions

2021-08-29 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Aug 2021, at 13:47, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > > Thanks, this was very helpful. > > The Running Balance option on the display tab was not visible, I had to > scroll down. The window is too small to show all options at once and I didn't > notice it. > > The only issue I still have is

Re: [GNC] Account report with transactions

2021-08-29 Thread Michael Hendry
On 29 Aug 2021, at 12:05, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for an account report with transactions for a certain time period > with intial and final account value. > > E.g. account value at the beginning of the year, all transactions during the > year and the total value at th

Re: [GNC] Changing the order of splits

2021-07-29 Thread Michael Hendry
On 29 Jul 2021, at 11:53, David Sumbler wrote: > > I have a set of accounts in which some transactions have a considerable > number of splits, each one relating to an individual person. All of > these splits have the same amount in the debit column, but the number > of splits in each of these tr

Re: [GNC] Considering upgrade from late-2012 iMac 27inch to current iMac 27inch

2021-07-15 Thread Michael Hendry
On 19 Jun 2021, at 17:49, Michael Hendry wrote: > > I’m planning to replace my current iMac with its current equivalent, which > will presumably run Big Sur. > > Although the 24 inch models use the Apple M1 chip, the 27 inch iMac has an > Intel Core i9 processor, so I’

Re: [GNC] Big problem GC 4.6 wiping history list? Mac OS Big Sur

2021-07-01 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Jun 2021, at 07:52, Anita Graves wrote: > > Please see the attached screenshot: > > I don’t know what to do but I refuse to delete the file I need to work with, > or any of the other files in the history list. This all happened to me when > I installed GC 4.6. Before I was using 4.1.

Re: [GNC] Frustration

2021-06-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 7 Jun 2021, at 17:30, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jun 6, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 7 Jun 2021, at 06:57, flywire wrote: >>> >>> What you want is very simple, just not in GnuCash which is possibly the o

Re: [GNC] Frustration

2021-06-07 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 7 Jun 2021, at 17:30, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jun 6, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 7 Jun 2021, at 06:57, flywire wrote: >>> >>> What you want is very simple, just not in GnuCash which is possibly the o

Re: [GNC] Frustration

2021-06-06 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 7 Jun 2021, at 06:57, flywire wrote: > > What you want is very simple, just not in GnuCash which is possibly the only > package without it. The workaround changing accounts is just not worth the > grief. > > Other software allows a category or class[ification] field on each > transaction. N

Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

2021-06-02 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 2 Jun 2021, at 02:44, Peter West wrote: > > I’m a fairly naive user, but I find the Imbalance-XXX and Orphan-XXX accounts > (at top level in my CoA) extremely useful, and I understand why they are > there. If I ever see a balance, I know I have to fix something, which is a > good reason t

Re: [GNC] Question about Profit-Loss Report

2021-05-31 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 31 May 2021, at 15:10, Howard M. Fried wrote: > > I have several invoices that were issued in 2020 but paid in 2021. These > funds are not included in a P&L report for 2021, apparently because the > report is based on date of invoice issue, or have I missed something. > > Is it possible t

Re: [GNC] "No suitable backend" message trying to open an alias to a gnucash file

2021-04-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Apr 2021, at 22:12, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 27 Apr 2021, at 19:07, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Apr 26, 2021, at 11:41 PM, Michael Hendry >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 27 Apr 2021, at 00:57, John Ralls wrote

Re: [GNC] "No suitable backend" message trying to open an alias to a gnucash file

2021-04-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Apr 2021, at 19:07, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Apr 26, 2021, at 11:41 PM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >>> On 27 Apr 2021, at 00:57, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Apr 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM,

Re: [GNC] "No suitable backend" message trying to open an alias to a gnucash file

2021-04-26 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Apr 2021, at 00:57, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Apr 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I’m using GC 4.4 on iMac, running OS X Catalina. >> >> I want to place a book (say “BookA.gnucash”) in a Dropbox folder so that a >

[GNC] "No suitable backend" message trying to open an alias to a gnucash file

2021-04-26 Thread Michael Hendry
I’m using GC 4.4 on iMac, running OS X Catalina. I want to place a book (say “BookA.gnucash”) in a Dropbox folder so that a deputy can take over in the event of my not being available at short notice. Dropbox now requires original files, not aliases, in the Dropbox directory, so I can’t keep my

Re: [GNC] Trying to download Gnucash data Files

2021-04-11 Thread Michael Hendry
ggest you put any recovered files in Documents/Accounts (Documents\Accounts if you’re a Windows user), make backups!, and then open them with Gnucash in the normal way. Good luck! Michael Hendry PS If you have created Custom Reports and saved them, they’ll be in a file called “saved-report

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-10 Thread Michael Hendry
I think I’ve developed a reasonable hand-over method, thanks to members of the Gnucash Users. I’m sending this partly as a record for me of what I’ve done, and partly in case anyone else has a similar succession problem. Let’s say I have two books - BookA.gnucash and BookB.gnucash. I did the f

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 9 Apr 2021, at 14:27, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 4/9/2021 8:34 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: >> I'll jump in just to say > > Computers do not know who owns them. > > That means that what you need to do to transfer to another person's computer > is in no way different from t

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 9 Apr 2021, at 13:34, D. wrote: > > I'll jump in just to say that it is perfectly fine to copy and paste saved > report configurations into and out of saved-reports-2.8. For a while, I had a > strange problem where my reports file kept being truncated, and I had to copy > in my reports nu

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> > Hi Michael, > > Yes, the base template id's shouldn't change in future gnucash versions. Once > a report template gets an id (assigned by the developer that creates this > report template) it will be fixed. This is not dependent on your installation > or your accounting data. The only thi

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 9 Apr 2021, at 09:57, David Cousens wrote: > > Michael > I have to confess I don't know if you can edit the saved-reports-2.8 file. > As it is a text file, it should be OK. I would keep a copy of the original > just in case. It may be worth taking a good look at the first and last > entries

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 9 Apr 2021, at 08:15, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > That should work. > > There is one pitfall with the way saved report configurations are handled in > gnucash, but that is in general and not specific to your situation: saved > rerport configurations are shared by all yo

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Apr 2021, at 21:28, David Cousens wrote: > > Michael, > > The location of the saved reports files is OS dependent. Full infor on the > location sis given at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations > although it takes a bit of sorting through but I think the saved reports >

Re: [GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Apr 2021, at 10:36, Christopher Lam wrote: > > Michael > First, good luck and hope all goes well. > Second, you can 'describe' a custom report by the following process. This > uses the gnucash-cli tool. > > $gnucash-cli -R list > > This will list all built-in and saved reports, the latt

[GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

2021-04-07 Thread Michael Hendry
I’m shortly to undergo surgery, and although I expect to be home in three or four days, it’ll be several weeks before I’m fully up and running again. As a retired doctor, I’m well aware that bad stuff can happen during or after surgery. As well as managing my personal accounts, I’m treasurer of

Re: [GNC] Entering A Scheduled Transaction Early

2021-04-04 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 4 Apr 2021, at 15:30, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user > wrote: > > That's not what I was trying to do. Is this scheduled transaction (Sx) the first of a series (A), or is it part of an existing series which is to be paid earlier than normal? (B) If (A): create the Sx with the early start

Re: [GNC] Items not appearing in P&L report

2021-03-30 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 30 Mar 2021, at 10:07, Mahon Finbar wrote: > > Hi, > > I get reimbursed a certain amount of electricity costs each month, as a > separate transaction in to my bank a/c. I enter them as income:reimbursement > in the gnucash transaction. > > However, nothing appears in my P&L report under

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transaction frequency?

2021-03-16 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 16 Mar 2021, at 17:13, Derek Atkins wrote: > > I don't think you can do that with the current implementation. > > -derek > As a workaround, could you simply set up a monthly transaction for the last day of the month, or for the 3rd day of the month? If it’s an expense you would use the

Re: [GNC] Lost Files update

2021-02-20 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 20 Feb 2021, at 16:10, Mahon Finbar wrote: > > Hello again, > > No reaction to my previous post. > > The list of files under gnucash are all dated 5 Feb 2018 should there be > something more recent? > > TIA for any reply Adrien responded yesterday at 19:33 (GMT), looking for more in

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