[GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread George Michalopoulos
hello all, the subject is self-explanatory... gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6 I was using it for 2-3 years, i tried to open it today, but it does not start. updated gnucash, nothing. installed latest python, nothing. added the app to the dock, nothing.. i can see the splash screen, b

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you’re getting the GnuCash splash screen then it is starting, but then either being hidden, or crashing. I’ll presume: That you’ve checked *all* workspaces for the window? That you’ve right-clicked the icon in the dock and tried the ’Show all Windows’ entry? (as well as maybe assigned it t

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread George Michalopoulos
i made all the things you say, no good.. This is what i see on terminal.. Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash (process:1839): gnc.gui-WARNING **: 14:52:58.538: [mac_find_close_country()] Apple Locale is set to a value en_GR not supported by the C runtime (process:183

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
Release 3.7.1 has only been around for several. Weeks. Is this the first time for you to start Gnucash after updating? If so, which version did you have before? David Carlson On Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 6:58 AM George Michalopoulos wrote: > i made all the things you say, no good.. > > This is what

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread George Michalopoulos
i had to run it 1,5-2 years.. should i try an older version ? On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 4:23 PM David Carlson wrote: > Release 3.7.1 has only been around for several. Weeks. Is this the first > time for you to start Gnucash after updating? > > If so, which version did you have before? > > David

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
I don't know about Mac's. I just asked if this was your first time running release 3.7.1? On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 8:40 AM George Michalopoulos wrote: > > i had to run it 1,5-2 years.. > > should i try an older version ? > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 4:23 PM David Carlson > wrote: > >> Release

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread John Ralls
"Warning: Unwind-only `stack-overflow' exception; skipping pre-unwind handler." Indicates that Guile's stack has run out of space. That might be a locale problem, what happens if you set the computer language to Greek so that it matches your region settings? Are there any crash reports (open /A

[GNC] QIF import - Failed

2019-11-16 Thread Louis Caron
Hello, what can cause the QIF import to fail ? Thanks, Louis ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabb

Re: [GNC] MAC Catalina Issue-Will Not Launch

2019-11-16 Thread Rodg495
Problem solved thank you. Adrien had the correct solution. -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Error noted

2019-11-16 Thread Rick Mobley
Thank you John, I've noted this and will run search if these errors begin to show up in a report or as an on-screen error. Rick -Original Message- From: John Ralls [mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 11:02 PM To: Rick Mobley Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject:

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Jack Slater
GC was not running until after the 11/08 date. I'm assuming that opening GC is just like opening the register. But to be sure, I just started GC, closed the problem register and reopened it and still no transaction. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:07 PM John Ralls wrote: > You may need to close and r

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Jack Slater
All are current. No splits. No formulas. I'll watch 12/08 scheduled transaction and see if it runs correctly. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:49 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I would also check that the accounts for each split in the template are > current actual accou

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Jack Slater
Yes. Its missing in the Expense account as well. Date is in fact correct at Nov 8 (11/08) On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:38 PM Colin Law wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 22:35, Jack Slater wrote: > > > > That is correct. Shows Last occurrence 11/08/2019 but does not exist in > ledger. > > Have you ch

Re: [GNC] QIF import - Failed

2019-11-16 Thread D via gnucash-user
Louis, Lots of things can cause a QIF import failure. It's usually a formatting problem--a tag where one isn't expected, for example. One common problem is that the dates in the file do not match the locale settings. That is, your file has DD-MM- but your locale uses MM-DD-. If the pr

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Jack Slater
Manually showed/did nothing. It is active and shows last run 11/08 and next run 12/08. I entered manually and will watch the 12/08 transaction to see what happens. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 3:54 PM Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Manually executing the Sinc

[GNC] Archiving transactions

2019-11-16 Thread M. Rizwan Muzzammil
Hi all, New user of GNU cash here. My accounts have a large number of transactions in them. This seems to slow the program down, and it take a minute or so to open it each time. Would there be a way to archive older previous year transactions so that the program runs faster? Thanks very much i

[GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

2019-11-16 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello, I'm moving from Sage Accounting and have set up GC from my trial balance information.  In Sage I had a number of sub accounts with totals and can't seem to get the same display in GC.  I am also unable to show my old account numbers on the accounts page - nor to sort them as per the se

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
One problem that can cause a missing transaction is if the SLR created the transaction, then GnuCash was improperly closed without saving the file, most likely by turning off the computer without closing the program or by losing access to the media by removing a USB key or ethernet cord. David Car

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
The condition I just mentioned should not normally cause the SLR memory to be retained when the transaction is lost, but I have occasionally lost a transaction by some similar problem. David Carlson On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 2:55 PM David Carlson wrote: > One problem that can cause a missing tran

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Jack Slater
Always save 2 versions and close the app. On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 2:55 PM David Carlson wrote: > One problem that can cause a missing transaction is if the SLR created the > transaction, then GnuCash was improperly closed without saving the file, > most likely by turning off the computer without

Re: [GNC] Archiving transactions

2019-11-16 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 18:14, M. Rizwan Muzzammil wrote: > ... > My accounts have a large number of transactions in them. > > This seems to slow the program down, and it take a minute or so to open it > each time. How large is your accounts file (I assume that you are using the default xml file s

Re: [GNC] Archiving transactions

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
Slowness to open and to save and close, and even to commit any transaction edit has been a known problem for some time now. Releases after about 3.4 or so are supposed to be much improved, but there may still be slowness if there are a lot of account tabs to open or reports to recreate. There was

Re: [GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
Richard, I do not know if importing accounts from CSV of from QIF will bring in account numbers, but they can be assigned with the account editor. If they are not showing on the Accounts window you may need to select the field from the down arrow on the far right. Sub-Accounts should nest under

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
I am not sure what was really happening to my file, but I have also had duplicates appear in some cases if I needed to replay log files or whatever. It hasn't happened often or been repeatable, so I have not researched it. David Carlson On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jack Slater wrote: > Alwa

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 11/15/19 2:28 PM, Colin Law wrote: > Are you saying that in the sched tx editor it shows a date for Last > Occurrence, but when you look in all of the accounts that it should > affect it is not there? Make sure you check in all of them. > I presume you have not changed it in the editor since th

Re: [GNC] Schedule Transaction Shows Entered but is not?

2019-11-16 Thread Jack Slater
ya me too On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 4:55 PM Stephen M. Butler wrote: > On 11/15/19 2:28 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > Are you saying that in the sched tx editor it shows a date for Last > > Occurrence, but when you look in all of the accounts that it should > > affect it is not there? Make sure you ch

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread George Michalopoulos
first part of the log file in console: Process: Gnucash-bin [22377] Path: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version: ??? Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process:??? [1] Respons

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread George Michalopoulos
and the second part Binary Images: 0x1000 -0x14ff7 +Gnucash-bin (???) <5A62B366-3511-20B0-505D-7216536BCC46> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin 0x1c000 -0x48ff7 +libgncmod-ledger-core.dylib (0) /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-led

Re: [GNC] MAC Catalina Issue-Will Not Launch

2019-11-16 Thread Roger Struthers via gnucash-user
Issue resolved. Thank you very much . Roger ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, pleas

[GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-16 Thread Kay Robinson via gnucash-user
Hi Whilst gnucash was minimised on my toolbar I had a short power outage. When I re-booted the system I couldn't open my accounts because 'another user was using them' I chose to open anyway, but couldn't save a change I made. The help menu tutorial tells me I can do that but use another name

[GNC] [noob inside] Swiss account numbers

2019-11-16 Thread namichel
Hi all Sorry, I'm a noob on accounting. Previously, for an other task, I used banana who use numbers like this: https://www.banana.ch/apps/fr/node/8017 So cash is 1000, bank is 1010, selling 3200, stock 4200, etc ... Now I would like to start accounting with GnuCash who seam nice but I'm lost, I

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread George Michalopoulos
well, it seems i found a temporary solution.. i run it as superuser, with this command, from a terminal.. sudo /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash it does not run from the dock... On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 1:27 AM George Michalopoulos wrote: > and the second part > > Binary Images:

Re: [GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

2019-11-16 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello David, Thanks for the tip on the arrow on the right side of the accounts window.  I tapped that once but didn't notice that it was offering me a whole bunch of information options.  I now have account numbers showing and can sort on that column to make things look more or less the same as

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-16 Thread David Cousens
Kay If GnuCash is not closed properly,e.g. a crash the .LNK and .LCK files created in your data directory prevent you from opening GnuCash. Section 2.5.3 of the Tutorial guide covers them. 2.5.3. Lock files (.LNK and .LCK) You may occasionally see .LNK and .LCK files appear. These do not store an

Re: [GNC] [noob inside] Swiss account numbers

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
GnuCash does support account numbers. In GnuCash they are called account codes that the user needs to enter manually. There is a rudimentary description here: https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help You may need to look in the Accounts tab on the far right and click on the do

Re: [GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
I searched the help for information on account codes but all I found was: https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3&lang=C&doc=help I thought there used to be a lot more information than that. I know that you can use account codes in the account fields when editing transactions instead of the t

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-16 Thread David Carlson
Kay, If you happened to use the Open Read-Only option instead of the Open Anyway option, you will not be able to use the Save option but will have to Save As a different filename. If you do use the Open Anyway option you should be able to Save the file with the same filename. David Carlson On S

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.7.1 does not start on Macos 10.13.6

2019-11-16 Thread John Ralls
That's not GnuCash 3.7, it's a Gtk2 version. Not only that but it seems to have Guile 1.7, which would put it into the 2.4 series -- except that I never used Guile 1.7: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-osx/commit/1e63de2b73189b38060068f030ca7977c9967394 shows upgrading from Guile-1.6 to Gui

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-16 Thread Stan Brown
In the two years I've been reading this list, I think the single most common question has been about this "could not obtain the lock" message. Seems like someone asks about it at least once a week. The text "that database may be in use by another user," while literally true, isn't helpful because