Re: gnucash coredump gnome

2017-12-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 December 2017 at 19:20, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > > Hi > > Just joined. i have been using Quicken for 24years running under Wine! It's > now time to change, problems with older versions of it. > > I'm running Gnome 16.04LTS. But I have problems with my first foray into > Gnucash. It is

Re: gnucash coredump gnome

2017-12-20 Thread Colin Law
thing is up to date for that version). Obviously report if that shows any errors. . Colin > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: gnucash coredump gnome > From: Colin Law > To: Cliff McDiarmid > CC: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > On 19 December 2017

Re: Dealing with a large QIF file

2017-12-24 Thread Colin Law
You should be able to export one account at a time from Quicken, I think. Then import them one at a time. Colin On 24 December 2017 at 19:02, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: >Hi > >I'm importing a large QIF file(a current a/c)about 6000 entries. >There are about a dozen other a/c's from Quick

Re: Gnu Cash Starts With The File Needing Saved 2.6.18

2017-12-25 Thread Colin Law
Could it be adding scheduled transactions? Colin On 25 December 2017 at 18:56, Greg Feneis wrote: > Hi Folk, > > Win7-64 and Gnu Cash 2.6.18. > > I'm just recently back to using Gnu Cash and when I start it, the window > appears with the file name showing in the title bar with an asterisk before

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread Colin Law
On 27 December 2017 at 21:55, farleykj wrote: > The URL is listed with https. But, for the record, I tried http and https > in > futile attempts to connect. Neither makes any difference. The error message > you refer to is the "contents" of the results I get from a query to the > website, and doe

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 December 2017 at 18:26, farleykj wrote: > I did try this. The only effect from changing it is to get a different > number > at the end of the failure message, i.e. it goes from > You did try what? Since you have not quoted the message you are replying to we do not know which suggestion you

Re: Check Register view disappeared; how do I get it back?

2018-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 January 2018 at 18:38, Dave Orsinger wrote: > Hi, > I asked this basic question several days ago and still haven't found a > solution. I was starting with gnucash on a very basic, personal level. I > was entering data in the basic "check" register. When taking a break, I > accidentally "x'd

Re: DELETING OLD GNU CASH ACCOUNTS

2018-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 6 January 2018 at 21:37, LEE HOYER wrote: > Good day faithful persons, Would like to eradicate all old GnuCash accounts > because they went crazy a month ago with unusual descriptions in description > spaces. I had done a restore on system on my Windows 7 OS to cause this it > seems. Now gett

Re: closing accounts and unreconciled transactions

2018-01-08 Thread Colin Law
You could just adjust the opening balance accordingly and reconcile that transaction so that the reconciled balance is at what it should be. Colin On 8 January 2018 at 15:10, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > In moving my accounts to gnucash, I see that I have some unreconciled > accounts in my checking

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-13 Thread Colin Law
On 10 January 2018 at 19:21, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: >Hi > >I still haven't sorted my Quicken import, getting the correct balances >without a 'balance adjustment' is difficult. > Add (or adjust) an appropriate opening balance. > >But the question is: How do i delete an account

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 January 2018 at 17:12, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > > >Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 4:58 PM > >From: "Colin Law" > >To: "Cliff McDiarmid" > .Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >Subject: Re: Read only transactions > >On 10 Januar

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
What have you specified for Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red line): in Edit > Preferences > Accounts? Colin On 14 January 2018 at 12:04, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 5:22 PM > From: "Colin Law" > To: "Cliff

Re: Manually entering historic records

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 January 2018 at 09:59, Gregory L. Davis wrote: > Trevor: > > It sounds to me like you have to increase the number of days for "Read only" > transactions. Try clicking on the file menu, then preferences. In the > "Accounts" tab, increase "Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red > line)

Re: Manually entering historic records

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 January 2018 at 12:22, Colin Law wrote: > On 14 January 2018 at 09:59, Gregory L. Davis wrote: >> Trevor: >> >> It sounds to me like you have to increase the number of days for "Read only" >> transactions. Try clicking on the file menu, then preference

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
Sorry, it is in File > Properties > Accounts. Best left at zero unless you want earlier transactions to be protected. Colin On 14 January 2018 at 12:15, Colin Law wrote: > What have you specified for Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions > (red line): in Edit > Prefere

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
:14, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > > > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 12:27 PM > From: "Colin Law" > To: "Cliff McDiarmid" > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: Read only transactions >>Sorry, it is in File > Properties > Accounts. Best l

Re: Installing GnuCash using GoDaddy MySQL Server

2018-01-15 Thread Colin Law
On 16 January 2018 at 06:34, Jim_S wrote: > I am trying to install gnuCash using a MySQL database hosted by GoDaddy. We > also use GoDaddy for our WordPress web page, so I already have the hosting > account. GnCash keeps giving me an error "The server at URL > mysql://gnuc...@gnucash.db.3879949.

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 January 2018 at 02:24, Gerald Mathias wrote: > My thanks to Derek Atkins for some good pointers (and thank you, too, Bert > Riding). I'm not sure whether I will finally be able to digest the > suggestions sufficiently. > > Derek said, "On November 15 at 16:19 you made some changes to the fi

Re: Messed up file names

2018-01-20 Thread Colin Law
lar, put it in the new PC, open gnucash then use File > Open in the menus, browse to the file on the stick and open it. Then assuming it looks ok use File > Save As to save it where you want on the pc. Colin > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Colin Law wrote: > >> On 20 January

Re: Bank reconciliation question

2018-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 January 2018 at 10:31, David Goodenough < david.goodeno...@linkchoose.co.uk> wrote: > A community association for which I am treasurer for recently had someone > succeed in > getting our bank to open a Direct Debit on our account without our > authorisation. > They took 4 payments before we

Re: New File Name ??

2018-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 January 2018 at 13:57, Mike Stillingfleet < mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just noticed (after doing a lot of work on GNU Cash) that the file > name has changed. I now have a file call Bank Expenses.gnucash. > > When I click on file I see my old file name as

Re: New File Name ??

2018-01-24 Thread Colin Law
gs, so you can see if the track is continuous down the original file, then switches to the new file and stays there, in which case the new file should have everything in it. If the timestamps of the two file tracks are interleaved then you have a bigger problem. Colin > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2

Re: Reconcile problem

2018-01-31 Thread Colin Law
On 30 January 2018 at 22:22, oldpopsie wrote: > I used to be able to changetheending balance when I set up a reconcile for > a > month. All ofa sudden, i have a new version/build of Gnucash and it won' > t let me change the ending balance i am trying to reconcile to. Instead, it > insists on ente

Re: Scheduled Transactions

2018-02-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 February 2018 at 16:52, Dennis West wrote: > When I first started with Gnucash recently, I imported a rather large QIF > file. All the accounts appear to have imported correctly but I can't find > any sign of transactions that were "scheduled" in Quicken. Am I correct in > assuming that sc

Re: Scheduled Transactions

2018-02-07 Thread Colin Law
On 7 February 2018 at 12:23, cicko wrote: > Hi, Dennis, > > I don't think that scheduled transactions can even be exported from Quicken > into .qif file. Therefore, it is almost certain that they won't be found in > GnuCash after import. This only depends on what you consider the scheduled > tran

Re: Duplicating Accounts?

2018-02-10 Thread Colin Law
On 9 February 2018 at 20:38, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy template, > but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then > I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while > export is poss

Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 179, Issue 34

2018-02-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 February 2018 at 06:36, Roger Hatton wrote: > I hope this is the correct way to start a new topic? > > Sorry, no. You appear to have replied to a digest email so the email has not got a sensible subject line and is a huge email with hundreds of lines of text below your comment (which I hav

Re: Installation

2018-02-13 Thread Colin Law
I would support the idea of the log and backup files being in a subdirectory named using the accounts file name as a seed, so for example myaccounts.gnucash.archive or maybe for those windows users who have problems with file extensions not being shown myaccounts_gnucash_archive. Something like tha

Re: One account for both Income and Expenses possible?

2018-02-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 February 2018 at 11:04, Norbert Klein wrote: > Thank, Maf, > > your advice was very clear and helpful - I rearranged what I had used > before accordingly. > > But you advised me also: > > Let me start by saying that you should have started a new thread for your >> question and not hijacked

Re: Monthly Billings Report ? (How much business did we book/Invoice during month X)

2018-02-23 Thread Colin Law
On 22 February 2018 at 18:36, Fran_3 via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Scott, > Thanks for your comments. As I mentioned to Adrien, I don't think I'm > going to charge off and start developing my own gnuCash queries using any > tool. We are going to just use it out of the box

Re: Slow and crashes on Windows 7 and 8

2018-02-23 Thread Colin Law
On 22 February 2018 at 19:50, SteveM wrote: > "I wanted to like Gnucash, I really did, but it crashes e=whenever I try > to generate any report from any Gnucash file. " > > Hi Stan, > > I am with you on some of your issues. > > I am using GNUcash on a Windows 8.1 iNtel core i7 laptop and PC Ubunt

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

2018-02-27 Thread Colin Law
On 26 February 2018 at 23:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like to > put Gnucash on it. The Xenial repos are dated to 2.6.12, a bit too stale. The next LTS (18.04) will be out in a few weeks and is available for download as a dail

Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question

2018-03-02 Thread Colin Law
Also you can use the search feature to search for the lost transaction. Colin On 2 March 2018 at 19:38, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > This will sound like a stupid response, but it’s happened to me a bunch… > > Are you 100% sure you have the date right on the transaction when you enter > it? I’ve ha

Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question

2018-03-02 Thread Colin Law
-- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+ddutra=nycap.rr@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of > Colin Law > Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 3:35 PM > Cc: gnucash-user > Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question > > Also you can use the search feature to search for the lost transactio

Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question

2018-03-02 Thread Colin Law
t; problem is, if I hit Enter (either by hitting the key or clicking on the > menu), the transaction is no longer there - or anywhere else on the whole > ledger - but if I start to input it again, it all comes back, properly split. > > D > > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Gnucash Error "No Suitable backend was found for file..."

2018-03-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 March 2018 at 13:33, Osama Younis wrote: > Dears, > Greetings. > > I am getting the error message "No Suitable backend was found for file..." > after my PC was shut off unexpectedly two days ago. Now I can't open my > current accounts even though I see the backup files (.gcm and .gnucash fi

Re: Importing Quicken

2018-03-10 Thread Colin Law
I believe you have to export from quicken to QIF. Should be in the menus somewhere. Colin On 10 March 2018 at 16:12, Ken Pyzik wrote: > Edward -- I did the switch about 8 months ago and have not looked back. > > I am pretty sure you can directly import your file from Quicken. I do not > remembe

Re: MySQL in a Container (Docker)

2018-03-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 March 2018 at 03:28, jhinz wrote: > Had been running GNU Cash connected to a VM running linux and MySQL. > Switched to MySQL running on a container and started receiving an error in > GNUCash. The error msg read "Cannot write to the database". Once that > occurred the entire database seem

Re: how to download

2018-03-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 March 2018 at 20:05, David Carlson wrote: > Perhaps Mike has not seen the Source Forge webpage before. Just start from > the website. Then select Download GnuCash. > Select the version for your operating system. If it is Windows you get > taken to the Source For

Re: how to download

2018-03-14 Thread Colin Law
gt; >> wrote: >> >> > The green button may have been broken for a while in the last couple of >> > days, but it worked for me when I first selected to download the windows >> > version from the gnucash webpage then use the green button to download >>

Re: how to download

2018-03-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 March 2018 at 21:51, Stan Brown wrote: > On 2018-03-14 17:32, Colin Law wrote: > > When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green > > button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB) > ". > > But I am using

Re: how to download

2018-03-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 March 2018 at 22:41, Dave H wrote: > The download link target you click on http://gnucash.org/ also differs > depending on which OS you select to download if you come in that way > That's what I did, I clicked on the Windows link, which took me to sourceforge and then presented me with

Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use

2018-03-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 March 2018 at 13:55, Alan Whiteman wrote: > My vote goes to Linux Mint. Superb distro. I believe that Mint is based on Ubuntu, so if ethernet is an issue with Ubuntu I imagine the same will be true of Mint. In fact if you can get any Linux version to work with your card then Ubuntu shoul

Re: GnuCash: Register Entry Autofill

2018-03-18 Thread Colin Law
On 17 March 2018 at 17:35, Charles Sliger wrote: > Is there any way to turn off the autofill function when ebtering > transactions in a register? > GnuCash frequently insists on creating a split transaction that I have > to deconstruct in order to enter a simple transaction. > I've looked in the P

Re: Gnucash backends

2018-03-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 March 2018 at 19:05, Jonathan Silvey wrote: > I have been using GnuCash on Linux Mint for several years. As they were > getting full, I decided to start a new file and this has been running > successfully for three weeks. When I try to run the old data, the relevant > files are there but whe

Re: Preferences - Online Banking

2018-03-21 Thread Colin Law
On 21 March 2018 at 12:39, D via gnucash-user wrote: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-March/075522.html with > replies following. > > As you are not the first to ask about an unanswered message, I wonder whether > there's something causing messages to disappear on their wa

Re: Save to MySQL

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 March 2018 at 07:39, daniel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using two machines (both are Ubuntu 16.04) and trying to use MySQL to > save GnuCash data. > In one machine the GnuCash application in the second one MySQL. > > While trying to save the data (with Save As, MySQL option) I provide the > MySQ

Re: incorrect starting balance in reconcile

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Law
On 21 March 2018 at 19:22, darrylctx wrote: > I am trying to reconcile a Bank account. > Everything has been working fine since I opened the account, but recently I > tried to reconcile a statement, and the starting balance of the reconcile is > incorrect. > At the end of every statement, I put in

Re: Save to MySQL

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 March 2018 at 11:33, daniel wrote: > Hello Colin, > > More information: > > - The save didn't succeed, all the tables are empty (Error is: The Server at > URL:// experienced an >> error or encountered bad or corrupt data) > - I'm using root user for MySQL (at least for now), DB and tables we

Re: Recent posts and replies missing issues in several GnuCash user threads

2018-03-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 March 2018 at 19:18, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > ... > b) If you don't have original message file in your webmail client or in >your email client, but you know a place where it's archived: see if >the archiver tells you about the "Message-ID" of the original >message, or if i

Re: incorrect starting balance in reconcile

2018-03-23 Thread Colin Law
Did you try John's suggestion to use the Edit->Find menu item to search for entries by their reconcile status? Colin On 23 March 2018 at 01:04, darrylctx wrote: > I am trying to reconcile the first transaction in the account, and yes view > is set to show all. > > thanks > > > > -- > Sent from:

Re: Reconciliation problems

2018-03-31 Thread Colin Law
On 31 March 2018 at 13:53, EngineInstitute wrote: > I am often in the position where I have fallen behind on posting credit > cards > to the bank account although the bank account is reconciled. I am trying to > catch up on this now. The problem is as I am trying to reconcile per month > I > am n

Re: MySQL Server connection timeout or keep-alive

2018-04-03 Thread Colin Law
On 2 April 2018 at 22:28, John Ralls wrote: > > >> On Apr 2, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Paul Neuwirth wrote: >> >> Hello, >> is it possible to change somewhere the connection timeout to a MySQL >> server on the client side? >> Or could it be possible to implement a keep-alive? >> Everytime the connection

Re: MySQL Server connection timeout or keep-alive

2018-04-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 April 2018 at 19:40, Paul Neuwirth wrote: > > ... > I am wondering, if no keep-alive is going to be implemented, if a > connection loss could be catched and connect again.. > the error message is: > "Unable to save to database." > That is not unreasonable on connection loss. What happens af

Re: Unrealized loss

2018-04-04 Thread Colin Law
Have you got any price changes on that date? Colin On 4 April 2018 at 17:10, wrote: > I suspect there is a bug that should be reported: > > As I do NOT manage currencies other than EUR and no traders accounts > taking into account share values, I have deleted all exchanges rates that > had been

Re: encoding bug in 3.0

2018-04-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 April 2018 at 17:52, René Romijn wrote: > After upgrade to 3.0 i cannot open my file. Im on Windows 10 and the default > location is on a directory with a é . its is trying to translate that to ã©. > So it looks like its not using UTF-8 encoding. result also after opening the > file it can

Re: [GNC] fixed field width

2018-04-08 Thread Colin Law
I can see this being useful on some accounts, but it would need to be optional. Colin On 8 April 2018 at 05:14, David Carlson wrote: > Dennis, > > It may look like there is a lot of room on your display, but a lot of > users still have rather low res displays or they (like me) just like to use

Re: [GNC] What is earliest version of Ubuntu for which building GnuCASH 3.0 is possible?

2018-04-08 Thread Colin Law
How are you running it? Perhaps it is running the old version. Run it by explicilty specifing the the full path the the executable from the terminal, something like /usr/local/bin/gnucash or wherever you installed it. If still no joy check the timestamp on the file you are running and make sure

Re: [GNC] switched to mariadb

2018-04-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 April 2018 at 19:52, Paul Neuwirth wrote: >> Hi, >> I think this is a bug. where to report? anyone knows a >> workaround/config for that? Or shall I create and suggest a patch on >> my own? >> >> I made a transfer and saving to database failed: >> mysql error: Incorrect datetime value: '19700

Re: [GNC] GDPR and data held in GnuCash

2018-04-10 Thread Colin Law
I found this a useful link [1] along with the rest of that website. The GDPRs apply to businesses and also to non-profits such as clubs. As I understand it all organisations have to have a Privacy Policy and need to get explicit agreement from all those they hold personal data on in order to keep t

Re: [GNC] GNC Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 April 2018 at 12:51, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > 2018-04-10T09:51:58+0200 Saša Janiška wrote: >> E.g. gnucash-users list uses Mailman which does provide e.g. List-Id >> header for simple filtering... > > Probably some weak webmail client full of non-free software through > client-side Ja

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 April 2018 at 06:15, Dave H wrote: > Hello people, > > Please note the following as Reply All apparently has unintended > consequences. > > Cheers Dave H. > > > Hello Dave... > > Please edit the message's 'to' list before you reply to a mailing list > message. I read the list, I get the mess

Re: [GNC] Snap Package Manager

2018-04-17 Thread Colin Law
$ snap find gnucash NameVersion Developer Notes Summary gnucash-jz 2.6.21a jz - GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software So it is called gnucash-jz Colin On 17 April 2018 at 10:27, Les wrote: > After creating a new saved file, I tried insta

Re: [GNC] .log files with sqlite backend

2018-04-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 April 2018 at 08:12, cicko wrote: > While I was using xml backend in the past couple of weeks, I finally > realized > how backup files and .log files work. I really like the scheme as, before > that, I had a script that creates backups of sqlite book in the same manner > (and deletes the .l

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.0 wine versus Windoze 10

2018-04-18 Thread Colin Law
Gnucash runs better on a Linux system than it does on Windows. My understanding is that it is Linux s/w adapted to run on Windows. So if you want to run Ubuntu ( which is an excellent idea) then run GC natively on that, not under wine. You will be able to install gnucash from the software manage

Re: [GNC] What is earliest version of Ubuntu for which building GnuCASH 3.0 is possible?

2018-04-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 April 2018 at 14:29, Steve Cohen wrote: > > OK, so I have been using GnuCash 3.0 on Ubuntu for a couple weeks now > and am broadly satisfied with it. I built it and it works. However, > there's one thing I cannot figure out. Where is the "launcher" for > GNUCash and/or how do I build that

Re: [GNC] Closed Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.0 wine versus Windoze 10

2018-04-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 April 2018 at 19:26, jeffrey black wrote: > ... > Gotta get back to doing the books and finding a way to resurrect the > boot strap on the Windoze drive so I can extract the last of the data > from proprietary formats. This might help https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Colin ___

Re: [GNC] What is earliest version of Ubuntu for which building GnuCASH 3.0 is possible?

2018-04-19 Thread Colin Law
On 18 April 2018 at 23:26, Steve Cohen wrote: > Thanks, this worked. And nothing special needed to be done with the icon. I assume you already have 2.x installed then. Colin > > On 04/18/2018 08:43 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> On 18 April 2018 at 14:29, Steve Cohen wrote: >&g

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3 unable to recognise SQLITE files on MAC OSX

2018-04-19 Thread Colin Law
The workaround in that link was from a bug that has already been reported, so there is no need to report it again. Colin On 19 April 2018 at 08:50, Peter Rowed via gnucash-user wrote: > Hello Adrien, > > Thank you. It worked. > > I am an long time user of Gnucash but newbie in this support netwo

Re: [GNC] Opening Gnucash

2018-04-19 Thread Colin Law
When you restart gnucash it should re-open the file you had open last time. Is it not doing that? If not then what does happen when you start gnucash and *exactly* how are you starting it? Also which version of gnucash are you using and what operating system? Colin On 19 April 2018 at 14:23, R

Re: [GNC] Toolbar ignoring gtk-toolbar-style setting in Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

2018-04-20 Thread Colin Law
On 19 April 2018 at 15:27, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I upgraded this morning from Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful) to 18.04 (Bionic). > > After doing so, my toolbar buttons in GnuCash are no longer large with > text below them, as they were in 17.04. > Are you using Wayland or X? If Wayland then is it the

Re: [GNC] Toolbar ignoring gtk-toolbar-style setting in Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

2018-04-21 Thread Colin Law
On 20 April 2018 at 23:27, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > Xorg, not Wayland. > OK, just thought it might be a Wayland issue. Colin > On 4/20/18 4:00 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On 19 April 2018 at 15:27, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >> I upgraded this morning from Ubuntu 17.10 (

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3 crashes on Win10

2018-04-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 April 2018 at 08:14, TFT wrote: > Tried skimming the list but that didn’t work > Well you skimmed it too litely. > > Why is G3 up as the latest for win10 if it don’t work? > Look back over the last couple of weeks posts, there have been numerous discussions about this. Colin > > Ke

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3 crashes on Win10

2018-04-24 Thread Colin Law
thread.html Colin > > Sent from my iPad > > On 24 Apr 2018, at 3:33 pm, Colin Law wrote: > > On 24 April 2018 at 08:14, TFT wrote: > >> Tried skimming the list but that didn’t work >> > > Well you skimmed it too litely. > > > >> >> Why is G3

Re: [GNC] gnucash v2.6 new install can't open on lubuntu 16.04?

2018-04-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 April 2018 at 08:03, vince wrote: > Hello the list, > I've installed the above version of gnucash on lubuntu 16.04,(also a new > install) and cannot get gnucash to open. This is on a older Dell precision > workstation 390. > > The gnucash.trace report in /var says "* 08:22:27 OTHER > Setti

Re: [GNC] gnucash v2.6 new install can't open on lubuntu 16.04?

2018-04-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 April 2018 at 09:24, vince wrote: > On 04/28/2018 09:12 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > On 28 April 2018 at 08:03, vince wrote: > >> Hello the list, >> I've installed the above version of gnucash on lubuntu 16.04,(also a new >> install) and cannot get gnuca

Re: [GNC] data file

2018-05-25 Thread Colin Law
The accounts file will be in the same folder as the backups, with the name starting the same as the backups. Colin On 25 May 2018 at 21:58, David Griffin wrote: > Yes, I was opening the back-up and that is what caused the problem. The > list I thought is only shortcuts so the file must still be

Re: [GNC] copying files

2018-05-30 Thread Colin Law
On 30 May 2018 at 21:02, Varda Rotenberg via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > Hi: > I can copy the gnucash data from my desk top and back with no problem. > However, when I place the flush card in my laptop it reads as "read only" I > did edit the account and took the place hold

Re: [GNC] copying files

2018-05-30 Thread Colin Law
: > It.s read only on both and there is no restrction. In Linux it is 777. > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > Original message ---- > From: Colin Law > Date: 5/30/18 4:09 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Varda Rotenberg > Cc: gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] copying files

2018-05-31 Thread Colin Law
gt; > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > Original message > From: Colin Law > Date: 5/31/18 2:33 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: varda241 , gnucash-user > Subject: Re: [GNC] copying files > > Please reply to the list, not just to myself, Re

Re: [GNC] Dock Icon on Mac

2018-06-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 June 2018 at 13:39, Glen Byram (Gmail) wrote: > ... > > The only other thing I have considered is that I open the App with a data > file active (my personal finances). Could it be something to do with the > location of that data file? > What do you mean by open the App "with a data file".

Re: [GNC] what do I do after crash

2018-06-15 Thread Colin Law
Tell us which version of gnucash you are using and what operating system you are using. Open gnucash, accept any warnings or errors that appear as it tries to re-load the last accounts file used then use File > Open to browse to where your accounts file is (it will be wherever you last saved it or

Re: [GNC] inflatevalidate

2018-06-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 June 2018 at 17:19, tom9...@earthlink.net wrote: >I just re-installed Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron 560 computer. When I >re-setup GnuCash 3.1 and tried to open the program, I got the following >error message: >The procedure entry point inflateValidate could not be located in

Re: [GNC] Forward payments

2018-06-29 Thread Colin Law
You can edit the transfer into the expense account and change the recipient to be the asset acct. You will get a warning that you are changing a reconciled transaction but it will not affect the reconcile (just make sure you don't change the amount transferred). Colin On 29 June 2018 at 04:34, T

Re: [GNC] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

2018-06-30 Thread Colin Law
Ubuntu 18.04 is currently ahead of getdeb, at version 2.6.19 Colin On 29 June 2018 at 21:33, David Carlson wrote: > Before 'rolling your own' GnuCash, check out Getdeb.net. They may not have > 3 series yet, but they are up to 2.6.17 at least, if not later. > > David C > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 a

Re: [GNC] Change Reconcile Starting Balance

2018-06-30 Thread Colin Law
The starting balance in the reconcile start dialog will be the nett balance of all reconciled transactions so far. Is this the first time you have reconciled it? If not then it should be the same as the ending balance the last time you reconciled, unless you have editted a reconciled transaction.

Re: [GNC] Change Reconcile Starting Balance

2018-06-30 Thread Colin Law
onciling, mark your current transactions and any earlier ones that >> were missed before (such as your opening balance transaction, say), and >> they balance out. >> >> David >> >> On June 30, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Roger Miskowicz wrote: >> >> Thanks Colin. >&

Re: [GNC] My bad

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
The easiest way is to open the backup file and Save As the original file as you have suggested. You could rename it instead but then you would have to use File Open to open it (as GC defaults to opening the last file used as you noticed). Log files are not used by the system after they are create

[GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
Following the instructions for building GC 3.x on the wiki [1] has been accomplished on Ubuntu 18.04 with little difficulty, so many thanks to the contributors to the wiki. Just one small issue so far, the icons to the left of the account names are all showing as a little no entry sign, which I gu

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
Actually I see there are more icons missing, such as the Split button icon in the toolbar. It seems that the missing files are the png files from data/pixmaps/hicolor/?/actions. Are these supposed to be copied somewhere by make install? Colin On 1 July 2018 at 11:21, Colin Law wrote

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
ments may be missing their icons Colin On 1 July 2018 at 13:39, Colin Law wrote: > Actually I see there are more icons missing, such as the Split button icon > in the toolbar. It seems that the missing files are the png files from > data/pixmaps/hicolor/?/actions. Are these supposed to

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
le is pixmaps/gnucash_splash.png There is no reference to /usr/local/share/gnucash/icons in the output of sudo make install. Colin Colin > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Colin Law wrote: > >> In the trace file I see around a dozen lines similar to >> >> * 13

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
; mkdir build > cd build > > cmake -D WITH_AQBANKING=OFF -D WITH_OFX=OFF ../gnucash > cmake .. > > make > > and the install_manifest.txt include the 'icons' directory. > > > Hope this helps, let me know if you would like to try something else. > > Roger

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
cksgtkbuilder migratable-prefs.xml scm ui Colin > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Jul 1, 2018, at 10:33 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > I have just rebuilt (on 18.04) using the exact same commands and my > > manifest does not include the i

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 July 2018 at 19:14, Colin Law wrote: > On 1 July 2018 at 18:58, John Ralls wrote: > >> data/pixmaps/CMakeLists.txt. There aren't any conditionals. >> >> Does your build directory have share/gnucash/icons? >> > > No > > $ ls share/gnucas

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-01 Thread Colin Law
g shows: > > $ ls > accounts/ gnucash.1icons/ > migratable-prefs.xml scm/ ui/ > checks/gtkbuilder/ make-prefs-migration-script.xsl > pixmaps/ tip_of_the_day.list > > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 3:23 PM Colin Law wrote: > >> On 1

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-02 Thread Colin Law
t. There aren't any conditionals. > > Does your build directory have share/gnucash/icons? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Jul 1, 2018, at 10:33 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > I have just rebuilt (on 18.04) using the exact same commands and my > >

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-02 Thread Colin Law
it doesn't then there is a problem with the above cmake instruction, if it does then for some reason that does not work on my cmake. For reference my cmake is 3.10.2-1ubuntu2 Colin On 2 July 2018 at 08:37, Colin Law wrote: > @John > > I see in src data/pixmaps/CMakeLists.txt the

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 July 2018 at 14:26, Roger Miskowicz wrote: > I renamed the icon folder and executed sudo make install and the icon > folder was recreated. > With all the icons in it? Colin > > Roger > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 9:05 AM Colin Law wrote: > >> Well

Re: [GNC] Build on 18.04

2018-07-02 Thread Colin Law
c-gnome-pdf.png > > Note: I will be away for the rest of the day, > > Roger > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 9:28 AM Colin Law wrote: > >> On 2 July 2018 at 14:26, Roger Miskowicz wrote: >> >>> I renamed the icon folder and executed sudo make install and the icon

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