Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Geoff
Hi Megan Glad to hear you had a successful outcome. The difference in results is explained by the fact that I ran the powershell installation script first - even though it failed at the end, it did successfully install most of the necessary modules. Hence your 24 vs my 1. So you are good t

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Megan Tilley
Geoff - you little beauty bottler!!! YAY! it worked. I assume you edited the results to the bare minimum in your instructions? I am glad that my issue could be reproduced but sad that it requires a fix! I could not decide whether I had to add all 3 installation commands at once or one at a time

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Megan Tilley
Hi Geoff! Thank you so much for your response and between you and Stephen, I can see that the majority of my questions have been answered. I have uninstalled both GC and Strawberry Perl and downloaded the two source files again from their respective sites. GC installed quite easily, as it did the

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Megan Tilley
Stephen and Geoff - thank you so much for such comprehensive answers and yes, I am currently re-reading my Finance Textbooks to refresh my memory of Double-Entry bookkeeping! The issue, I think, is that Quicken really dumbed down my comprehension because it handled the double-entry stuff behind

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
If it were me, I'd just register everything in AUD, as an earlier person suggested. If everything comes through PayPal as AUD, why engage in this complexity? Is there a compelling reason to track costs in the original currencies? Having lived in a number of different countries around the world

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread R Losey
My answers are interspersed with your questions (well, some of your questions) On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 5:09 PM Megan Tilley wrote: > Hi everyone! > > My environment is: > Local Currency: Australian Dollar (AUD) > Exchange Rates required for: > == USD > == GBP (UK) > == EUR > == SEK (Sweden) >

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-10 Thread Kevin Buckley via gnucash-user
On Sunday, September 8th, 2024 at 11:40, Megan Tilley wrote: > > > This email failed anti-phishing checks when it was received by SimpleLogin, > be careful with its content. > More info on https://simplelogin.io/docs/getting-started/anti-phishing/ > > -- > Hi every

Re: [GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-09 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Sorry, I can't help with the Windows Version nor do I use the finance quote items.  I can respond to some of your other questions. But first, do you really need to handle the exchange rates into those other currencies?  If there is no balance kept in Paypal and it handles all the currency conv

[GNC] New Australian user questions

2024-09-09 Thread Megan Tilley
Hi everyone! You all appear to have a good handle on GnuCash, but I am a brand newbie!!! My environment is: Local Currency: Australian Dollar (AUD) Exchange Rates required for: == USD == GBP (UK) == EUR == SEK (Sweden) - and are usually purchases that I pass through Paypal (no balance in Paypal,