[GNC] Ok how do i begin? How do I open my new acct with a credit balance in my bank acct? This is for my opening balance in my new biz acct.

2025-01-09 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
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Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread larry johnston
Hi, I checked my 2.6.15 on my old computer and the C$ symbol is not there. I do not remember doing anything to specifically set C$ for the budget. I wonder why it is only in the right hand totals and not in all the budget items. I did set it for my Chart of Accounts and that is also the case in 2.

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 262, Issue 24

2025-01-09 Thread Alex Sarraf
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Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread larry johnston
David, Thanks for your insights. When I started my Chart of Accounts, I thought I had set it to C$ but it was in US$ an dI had to go back and change them to C$. Maybe I missed one or two of them. I was not aware of the Locale option. Where would I find it and would it change all of my accounts or

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.10 flatpak edition: "failed tp load /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so"

2025-01-09 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Downgrading and resaving as xml sounds like the quickest solution. I'm not sure that using mysql has any benefit for access at different workstations,  since GnuCash is not multiuser anyhow. Also, if you downgrade to the package with SQL support, you could just stay there, unless there's some c

Re: [GNC] Ok how do i begin? How do I open my new acct with a credit balance in my bank acct? This is for my opening balance in my new biz acct.

2025-01-09 Thread David Cousens
Bob This will surprise you but the transaction is Asset:Bank account Debit Equity:Opening Balances Credit The basics section of the Tutorial and Concpets Guide has an introduction to the use of the terms debit and credit in accounting practice. The main thing to remember is t

Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread larry johnston
Hi, I went back and checked preferences and Accounts was set to Locale but showed US$. I changed it to C$ and that did not affect the Budget. I have now set it to Locale and $C and the dialog box says it will affect all future actions, still no effect on the Budget. I guess I need to check all of

Re: [GNC] Ok how do i begin? How do I open my new acct with a credit balance in my bank acct? This is for my opening balance in my new biz acct.

2025-01-09 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide ⁣David T. ​ On Jan 10, 2025, 3:38 AM, at 3:38 AM, David Cousens wrote: >Bob > >This will surprise you but the transaction is > >Asset:Bank account Debit >Equity:Opening Balances Credit > > >The basics section of the Tu

Re: [GNC] correct a mistake early

2025-01-09 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
Ya'll are just simply incredible!! On 1/9/25 2:03 PM, David Cousens wrote: Bob, No great problem. Create the folder and then locate the datafile, its backup and log files, i.e. anyfiles which have the base filename you gave the file e.g. .gnucash .gnucash..gnucash .gnucash..log where is a

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.10 flatpak edition: "failed tp load /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so"

2025-01-09 Thread dewaj
On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 12:16:34 -0600 (CST) Mark Penner wrote: > Jan 9, 2025 09:19:45 dewaj : > > > Flatpak edition of gnucash 5.10 starts with this warning: > > > > libdbi: Failed to load driver: /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so > > > > is  /app/lib/dbd/ the correct path? > > > > That path is not found

Re: [GNC] When importing an account tree from a csv file, account type information disappears

2025-01-09 Thread Brad Morrison
Hi Hakon/GnuCash users, https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Importing.2FExporting_Data - have you read this section of the GnuCash Wiki on importing and exporting data? What version of GnuCash are you using? The current version is 5.10 - https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml What operating sys

Re: [GNC] correct a mistake early

2025-01-09 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
Thank you On 1/9/25 11:10 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: If you just want to change the location of the data file on your disk, then you can either File -> Save As into the new location, or you can move the file to the new location and then File -> Open from the new location. It will not remove th

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.10 flatpak edition: "failed tp load /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so"

2025-01-09 Thread dewaj
Flatpak is in devuan repos. presumably if flatpak were not supported it would not be in a repo and/or would not be installable. devuan specific packages are built without systemd dependencies. otherwise typical debian packages are used. gnucash 5.9 flatpak edition supports mysql and sqlite3. ra

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.10 flatpak edition: "failed tp load /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so"

2025-01-09 Thread Mark Penner
Jan 9, 2025 09:19:45 dewaj : > Flatpak edition of gnucash 5.10 starts with this warning: > > libdbi: Failed to load driver: /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so > > is  /app/lib/dbd/ the correct path? > > That path is not found anywhere at all on the system. That path is inside the flatpak. Run `flatpak r

[GNC] gnucash 5.10 flatpak edition: "failed tp load /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so"

2025-01-09 Thread dewaj
Using devuan daedalus with gnucash flatpak. Flatpak edition of gnucash 5.10 starts with this warning: libdbi: Failed to load driver: /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so is /app/lib/dbd/ the correct path? That path is not found anywhere at all on the system. libdbdmysql is installed in the debian de

Re: [GNC] no suitable module found for a file

2025-01-09 Thread Brad Morrison
Hi Jean-Pierre/GnuCash users, Glad to hear that installing the libdbd-sqlite3 library solved that issue! Another option to figuring out which Linux dependency might be missing from the Linux distribution that you are using with GnuCash or any other Linux program/app, is to use the Flatpak versi

Re: [GNC] When importing an account tree from a csv file,     account type information disappears

2025-01-09 Thread hakon
(Apologies if I mess up the response format on this mailing list; I subscribed to daily digests, so I had to copy-paste from that bundle of messages.) Thanks, Michael, for your prompt response. The ordering of fields and potential manual edits that you suggest after steps a) and b), I had alr

Re: [GNC] gnucash 5.10 flatpak edition: "failed tp load /app/lib/dbd/libdbdmysql.so"

2025-01-09 Thread Brad Morrison
Hi Dewaj/GnuCash users, While this may not answer your immediate issue: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages - does Devuan support Flatpaks? https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan - DistroWatch lists it as #44 in Linux distro popularity, so it is not a common distribution. It a

Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread CWheeler via gnucash-user
I have seen the budget issue happen when there is more than one top-level Asset or Expense account in the book. It may occur with other account types as well, but I haven't tested those scenarios. Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:15:07 -0800 From: larry johnston To: Brad Morrison Cc: Gnucash Users Sub

[GNC] correct a mistake early

2025-01-09 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
I created a name for my folder and did not set up a holder file to keep things out of my document folder.  How do retreat back and do this properly?  I am watching a video "How to setup gnucash business accounting files aka the chart of accounts via the the busy bee post.  This is my mistake, b

Re: [GNC] correct a mistake early

2025-01-09 Thread Derek Atkins
If you just want to change the location of the data file on your disk, then you can either File -> Save As into the new location, or you can move the file to the new location and then File -> Open from the new location. It will not remove the old files from the old location, but you can move them

Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread Brad Morrison
Hi Larry/GnuCash users, There may be a few potential issues involved: - the data (which you mentioned that you entered manually) - the version of GnuCash - the data file (which might depend on which version of GnuCash that data file was started with, which is slightly separate from the data

Re: [GNC] RE no suitable module found for a file

2025-01-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Vandenbroucke
Hallo Bruce, For me libdbd-sqlite3 solved the problem, thank you. Op 9/01/2025 om 01:59 schreef Bruce Irving: Hi, Jean-Pierre Vandenbroucke. I also use GnuCash in MX-23 Linux based on bookworm (debian). GNC was 5.9. Last week, I had to re-install MX-23, When I finally got GNC installed, i

Re: [GNC] no suitable module found for a file

2025-01-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Vandenbroucke
Hallo, Installing libdbd-sqlite3 solved the problem, thank you. Op 8/01/2025 om 22:07 schreef David Cousens: Jean-Pierre, Were you using one of the SQL backends to store your file in V5.5 on LM22. If so, it may be possible that the V5.6 on LMDE6 has been built without the database drivers.

Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread larry johnston
Hi, To be clear, when you say more than one top level Asset account, you mean that there are two Asset accounts at the top of the Chart of Accounts. I have Assets and nested under that Cash, TFSA. RRIF etc. and under each of those the actual bank accounts etc. The same with Expenses, Income etc. S

Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread CWheeler via gnucash-user
Yes, that is what I mean. I looked at the screenshot you posted, and I notice that the total column entries on the right of the budget show the totals in C$. No idea whether that could be an issue, but I'd like to know how you made that happen. My budgets don't display any currency indicators.

Re: [GNC] correct a mistake early

2025-01-09 Thread David Cousens
Bob, No great problem. Create the folder and then locate the datafile, its backup and log files, i.e. anyfiles which have the base filename you gave the file e.g.  .gnucash  .gnucash..gnucash .gnucash..log where is a string with format "mmddhhmmss" e.g. .20250110060236   Any file .LCK can be

Re: [GNC] Budget Question and stylesheet question

2025-01-09 Thread David H
I am also seeing this in 5.10 on Win 10 - my test budget doesn't have any currency prefix whereas Larry's does for some reason ? Just posed this same question and then read your post here suggesting the same :-) Cheers David H. On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 at 05:58, CWheeler via gnucash-user < gnucash-us