Re: [GNC] Reconciliation

2020-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tsang
There is an open bug: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797514 which describes a way to force an edit on a reconciled split without unreconciling it. On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:23 PM Johann George wrote: > If I correct a typo in an already reconciled transaction, version 3.7 of > GnuCash

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-02 Thread Finbar Mahon
I fully appreciate everything you say. My suggestion was only posted to see if there was any way that 'amateurs' like myself who use it under Windows 10 on a PC, can feel happy. Of course there are no guarantees, even with expensive bought software, that is why I left more than one other accou

Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

2020-01-02 Thread Elmar
This is what's confusing: GC seems to have several folders on the linux side /home//.config/gnucash /home//.gnucash /home//.local/share/gnucash Should all of them have the same contents?  And if so, why the duplication?  Or is one or more of these left over from when I upgraded from version

Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

2020-01-02 Thread Elmar
My actual data file is on a separate drive, btw : /mnt/363D179A5F47C759/finances/GnuCash On 1/2/20 7:59 AM, Elmar wrote: This is what's confusing: GC seems to have several folders on the linux side /home//.config/gnucash /home//.gnucash /home//.local/share/gnucash Should all of them have t

[GNC] Gnucash V3.x NSTextInputClient protocol non-compliance

2020-01-02 Thread KUSUMOTO Norio
Thank you for your replay, John! (It is very difficult to draw attention to the issue of internationalization of text input. However, if you can imagine the practicality of accounting software that can not input virtually non-numeric text without copying and pasting from other applications, yo

[GNC] Possible bug (Re: subaccounts tabs vs windows)

2020-01-02 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-01-01 19:51, Adrien Monteleone wrote:> Nope, it’s a preference: > > Preferences > Register Defaults > Other Defaults > Register opens in a new window. > > Un-check it. Out of curiosity, I tried _checking_ it, because my accounts have always opened in tabs and I was curious if I'd prefer i

Re: [GNC] How to work with paypal transaction reports?

2020-01-02 Thread friedem...@masur.de
Yes, that is sadly true. I tried two times to get answers from them but their hotline agents didn't even know some of the classification tags that PayPal uses in the reports. In the meantime, i found a german financial software provider that has a really good PayPal import, where it even show you

Re: [GNC] subaccounts tabs vs windows

2020-01-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Adrien Monteleone writes: > The preferences shouldn’t change. > > I’ve never seen that with GnuCash, or any other app on any OS. > > If any existing preference changed on any update/upgrade, and you > weren’t warned about it during the process, I’d consider that a bug. > > It is unknown so f

Re: [GNC] v3.8 AQBanking in the US

2020-01-02 Thread chris graves
Derek, Yes, the symptoms I'm experiencing seem to be the same. Chris > On Jan 1, 2020, at 8:21 PM, Derek Robinson via gnucash-user > wrote: > > We may be talking about the same issue - is the behavior what I described in > my post earlier today? > > John Ralls ( or anyone else who might kno

Re: [GNC] v3.8 AQBanking in the US

2020-01-02 Thread Derek Robinson via gnucash-user
I’ll check that piece of configuration over the weekend (and I never knew the xml could be uncompressed ... thanks Frank Ellenberger!) Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 2, 2020, at 11:40 AM, chris graves wrote: > > Derek, > > Yes, the symptoms I'm experiencing seem to be the same. > > Chris > >

Re: [GNC] "?" symbol pre fixed with all balances in my account balances

2020-01-02 Thread Keshava M P
Thank you very much, Adrien. In a separate thread, I saw creating gtk-3.0.css and it worked and changed the fonts also. But when I try entering *₹ *symbol (Here, I typed this with the combination CTRL+ALT+4 with keyboard as English (India) on Windows 10), I am simply not able to do it. Firstly,

Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

2020-01-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 2, 2020, at 5:39 AM, Elmar wrote: > > Sorry - "crash to desktop" - the program simply vanishes from the screen. > > On 1/1/20 6:57 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> BTW, what does CTD expand to? >> Thanks, but please remember to copy the list on all replies. Regards, John Ralls __

Re: [GNC] Gnucash V3.x NSTextInputClient protocol non-compliance

2020-01-02 Thread John Ralls via gnucash-user
Kusomoto-san, Please remember to copy the list in all replies. > On Jan 2, 2020, at 5:38 AM, KUSUMOTO Norio wrote: > > Thank you for your replay, John! > > > (It is very difficult to draw attention to the issue of internationalization > of text input. However, if you can imagine the practic

[GNC] Default Invoice Config

2020-01-02 Thread Axel Essbaum
In GNC 3.6 (macOS Mojave) I created a configuration for invoices, saved it under the name "Default", and then every invoice I printed (to a PDF file) automatically adopted this configuration. In 3.7 this appears to no longer work. I have to manually open the configurations listing and select

Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

2020-01-02 Thread John Ralls via gnucash-user
~/.gnucash is left over from GC 2.6. The other two are for different purposes (and I forgot that when I wrote the earlier message), see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations. ~/.gnucash should have saved-reports-2.4 only, ~/.local/share/gnucash should have both saved-reports-2.

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-02 Thread boldstripe
Thanks for the explanation, David. I think I may have been a bit over-zealous in my sudo use at the first stages of the procedure; that is perhaps what caused the permissions issue when I did not 'sudo' later on. I also run Gnucash inside Debian Buster virtual machines on both my Mac and Windows m

[GNC] Opening Balance on Reports

2020-01-02 Thread Paul Kroitor
Hello, and happy New Year to all of you using whatever the name is for the calendar that just started the year 2020! I am trying to produce an annual statement for a counter-party with whom we have a current account. It's set up in GnuCash as a liability account, as generally the balance is in

Re: [GNC] Possible bug (Re: subaccounts tabs vs windows)

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Stan, I can duplicate your result. I’ve also discovered that having the register open in a new window at the time you move the tabs is not a requirement. You just need to have had one opened before changing the tab position. (I had closed my extra window before the crash happened) Also, the c

Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

2020-01-02 Thread Elmar
Since I am running only version 3.7 in both linux and win7, I can safely delete .gnucash entirely, right? And in other news - I got my reports back :)  Thank the computer gods for backups and redundancies. On 1/2/20 2:36 PM, John Ralls wrote: ~/.gnucash is left over from GC 2.6. The other tw

Re: [GNC] Possible bug (Re: subaccounts tabs vs windows)

2020-01-02 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-01-02 15:08, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Stan, I can duplicate your result. > > I’ve also discovered that having the register open in a new window at > the time you move the tabs is not a requirement. You just need to > have had one opened before changing the tab position. (I had closed >

Re: [GNC] "?" symbol pre fixed with all balances in my account balances

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user
Keshava, Read the Wikipedia article I linked. It takes you directly to the section on entering Unicode characters in X11 apps. You have to use the X11 CTRL+SHIFT+U key combo procedure, the Windows combo of CTRL+ALT will *not* work. Note, there are *two* methods in X11, the first you hold the co

Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

2020-01-02 Thread John Ralls
Yes, if you don't need to use GC 2.x you can safely delete ~/.gnucash. Regards, John Ralls > On Jan 2, 2020, at 12:29 PM, Elmar wrote: > > Since I am running only version 3.7 in both linux and win7, I can safely > delete .gnucash entirely, right? > > And in other news - I got my reports back

Re: [GNC] Opening Balance on Reports

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Paul, The Transaction Report has some aggregation and sorting features in the Options > Sorting tab, and you can refine the view in Options > Display. You might play with those till you find something close to what you are looking for. Optionally, export or copy/paste your report to a spreadshe

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 01:54:30PM -0600, boldstripe wrote: > Thanks for the explanation, David. I think I may have been a bit over-zealous > in my sudo use at the first stages of the procedure; that is perhaps what > caused the permissions issue when I did not 'sudo' later on. > > I also run Gnuc

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-02 Thread boldstripe
Postscript: I was missing the Help and Concepts Guide, which I solved as follows: It took me several attempts, following instructions I found in INSTALL, READ ME and elsewhere. In the end, I believe this is the part of what I did which actually worked: 1. Download gnucash-docs from https://source

Re: [GNC] v3.8 AQBanking in the US

2020-01-02 Thread John Ralls
OFX seems to be a broken in AQBanking 6, which as I explained earlier I provided in the Windows and Mac bundles to support the recent changes in Germany's FinTS system. Here's what my testing found: * OFX users and accounts aren't migrated to the new ~/.aqbanking/settings6 directory so the AQBa

[GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

2020-01-02 Thread Greg W
In the most recent release this change was made: [gnc-budget-view.c] totals - 5 fundamental types previous showed income/expense/transfers/totals budget totals, of uncertain meaning. now shows income/expense/asset/liability/equity budget totals. The 5 lines also become sensitive to the global sign

Re: [GNC] Opening Balance on Reports

2020-01-02 Thread Christopher Lam
If it's a single-creditor liability account, you could try adding the Display/Running Balance. However it doesn't quite give you the 'balance brought forward' prior to the first printed transaction. On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 19:55, Paul Kroitor wrote: > Hello, and happy New Year to all of you using

Re: [GNC] Opening Balance on Reports

2020-01-02 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/2/2020 5:33 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: If it's a single-creditor liability account, you could try adding the Display/Running Balance. However it doesn't quite give you the 'balance brought forward' prior to the first printed transaction. I will tell you how I would do this. It would be easy

[GNC] Locating Data and Log Files SINCE UPDATING to 3.8

2020-01-02 Thread Dr. Timothy B. Jones
Greetings: I just had my first heart failure since become a user of GNUCASH five years ago. While I have recovered...in doing so I have found a huge problem I am very confused about and don't know how to correct. Please note: 1. Windows 10 Home Version.on December 19 2. I used G

Re: [GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

2020-01-02 Thread Christopher Lam via gnucash-user
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797551 On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 21:45, Greg W wrote: > In the most recent release this change was made: > > [gnc-budget-view.c] totals - 5 fundamental types > previous showed income/expense/transfers/totals budget totals, of uncertain > meaning. now shows in

Re: [GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user
I haven’t yet delved into my 2020 budget, but certainly, the lack of an overall total should be restored as it is critical to the budgeting process. I consider this a regression of sorts. (in terms of reduced functionality, not necessarily, the return of a previously solved bug) Was this an acc

Re: [GNC] Locating Data and Log Files SINCE UPDATING to 3.8

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Per #3, on Jan 2, did you start GnuCash by: A) Opening GnuCash and letting *it* open your most recently used file. B) Double-clicking your intended file which will (allegedly) start GnuCash with the specified file. Option A *should* have opened the most recent file which *should* have been the

Re: [GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

2020-01-02 Thread Christopher Lam
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-October/087700.html Yes an unfortunate minor regression while fixing a severe bug, because until now I could not understand why the totals section included budget equity values. On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 01:15, Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user <

Re: [GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user
I thought that was discussed, but delving into the bug threads and others linked therein, I see the issue a bit more clearly. Certainly, I think the current underlying approach is the more sane one long term with a few kinks to be worked out. I (sadly and apologetically) still haven’t worked ou

Re: [GNC] v3.8

2020-01-02 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 12:09 PM boldstripe wrote: > Someone helpfully placed .deb packages for Gnucash 3.8 here (today): > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/ > > There are old postings on the mail list that explain how to use these. > Just after I saw this message the other da

Re: [GNC] Locating Data and Log Files SINCE UPDATING to 3.8

2020-01-02 Thread D via gnucash-user
I would step a little bit further back and ask the OP to describe a little more fully his setup, especially with regards to the folder on which he has previously stored his data. It seems possible that his data is stored in a location that is currently not available. Similarly, perhaps there are

Re: [GNC] Locating Data and Log Files SINCE UPDATING to 3.8

2020-01-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user
I suspected the same per #7 But I thought it pertinent to get the usual workflow understood first. Correcting for that, and then understanding storage locations *should* lend the proper solution, or towards the establishment of a bug. I’m leaning to procedure and juggling of storage locations b

Re: [GNC] Gnucash V3.x NSTextInputClient protocol non-compliance

2020-01-02 Thread KUSUMOTO Norio via gnucash-user
Hi, > Please remember to copy the list in all replies. I am sorry that my reply is to both an individual and this mailing list. This happened because I didn't realize that the mailing list was not included in the original reply you wrote. This can be confirmed by the fact that your first rep

Re: [GNC] Gnucash V3.x NSTextInputClient protocol non-compliance

2020-01-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 2, 2020, at 8:43 PM, KUSUMOTO Norio wrote: > > Hi, > > >> Please remember to copy the list in all replies. > > I am sorry that my reply is to both an individual and this mailing list. This > happened > because I didn't realize that the mailing list was not included in the > orig

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

2020-01-02 Thread Colin Law
Yes, of course the browser is irrelevant. I am so used to everything being a web app that I forgot that gnucash is not. Colin On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, 00:56 Adrien Monteleone, wrote: > Bill, > > There was a long thread last fall (2018) about css. I think the title > makes it appear to be dealing wit