Re: [GNC] Chromebooks

2018-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 05:36, randix wrote: > ... > flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash I think you may need to use sudo with that, at least that is what I did on Ubuntu > ... > error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Flatpak system > operation Deploy not allowed for

Re: [GNC] Setting Up GnuCash

2018-10-11 Thread Colin Law
It would be worth telling us what operating system you are running under and which version of gnucash you are using (Help > About). I don't know that video (a link to it might be useful) and don't fully understand what you have written, but what happens if you select View > New Accounts Page? Th

[GNC] Ubuntu 18.10 to have gnucash 3.3

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
Further to my recent post that Ubuntu 18.10 will have gnucash 3.2 I see this has now been updated to version 3.3 Ubuntu 18.10 Beta is available for installation/upgrade now (with gnucash 3.3) and should be released within a couple of weeks. Colin ___ gn

Re: [GNC] Is GnuCash the right application for me?

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 11:44, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > Hi > > I'm the treasurer of three sports clubs. They all have the same setup. > Most of the income is membership fees and we pay Invoices for > equipment and other costs. We have no tax or billing needs. The > account plan for each club is alm

[GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
I believe that on early 3.x versions that it was not possible to Save As on top of an existing database of the same name. I thought that had been fixed in or before 3.3 but I note that it still fails using 3.3 from the Ubuntu 18.10 repository. Also I cannot find a bug referring to the problem. C

[GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
Running Gnucash 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10 Beta from the Ubuntu repository there is no maximise button, and the window will not maximise by the usual shortcut methods. Has anyone else seen anything similar? Should I file a bug under the Ubuntu system or gnucash? Colin ___

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
18 14:39:11 +0100 Colin Law wrote: > > > > > Running Gnucash 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10 Beta from the Ubuntu repository > > there is no maximise button, and the window will not maximise by the > > usual shortcut methods. Has anyone else seen anything similar? > > Should I f

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
atabase is working but then it is unable to create the new one for some reason after dropping, but is able to create it if it does not need to drop it. On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 15:29, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Oct 12, 2018, at 6:03 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > I believe that on early

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
y Alt-Touch instead at the top right I > just have '-+x' which seems to be what I have in all my applications. The > '+' toggles maximize or not maximize. > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:38 AM Colin Law wrote: >> >> Sorry, I should have said that all ot

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-12 Thread Colin Law
available space when maximised. Unlike with 2.19, scroll bars do not appear below the register when an attempt is made to shrink the window further, it just won't allow further shrinking. Colin > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Oct 12, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Colin Law wrote:

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-10-13 Thread Colin Law
MySQL logs. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Oct 12, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > I am using MySQL. When I attempt to Save As over an existing database > > I see the database already exists warning then when I tell it to go > >

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-13 Thread Colin Law
details of that account. My feeling at the moment is that there is a bug (or at least non-optimum feature) in the code that determines the minimum width. If it is not a bug then I would be grateful if someone can explain what is going on. Colin On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:42, Colin Law wrote

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-13 Thread Colin Law
en ok and so could be maximised, with 3.3 it is about 1350, which is wider than the available width. Colin On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 12:05, Colin Law wrote: > Right, I have made some progress on this. > 1. At any time gnucash seems to maintain a minimum window width below > which it wi

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-13 Thread Colin Law
ber of accounts open that changes the width but which particular ones. There is one particular account that pushes the width up about 50 pixels but I can't see anything special about it. Colin > > David C > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 8:17 AM Colin Law wrote: > >> Yet m

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-14 Thread Colin Law
from > > the others? Does opening another account of that type have the same > effect? > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > > On Oct 13, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 14:31, David Carlson < > davi

Re: [GNC] Split Transaction now lists 2 items?

2018-10-19 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 14:39, David Carlson wrote: > > ...So if you want to see only one line in the register view for a > particular account, enter only the total in the split line for that > account. There can still be as many other split lines as you want. Reading the original post suggests t

Re: [GNC] GNUCash fails to start on Windows 10 after windows update

2018-10-21 Thread Colin Law
Anything in the gnucash trace file? Colin On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 at 10:57, crysty sandu via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi, > I cannot start GNUCash anymore on windows 10, I see the start image and tips > of the day box for a second then nothing happens.Everything worked fine until > the October Windo

Re: [GNC] Libboost_regex needed

2018-10-23 Thread Colin Law
I have not heard of any problems with encrypted drives on Ubuntu 18.04, did you ask on, for example, the Ubuntu Users list for help getting it sorted? Colin On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 16:49, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Not sure who maintains the Wiki for Ubuntu builds, but I had to install > libboos

[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
Just upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10. This upgraded GC from 2.6.19 (at least I think it was 19) to 3.3 and now GC crashes immediately on startup. Starting in a terminal gives result below. There is nothing in the trace file. On another machine with a fresh install of 18.10 GC 3.3 runs fine so

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
Further to this I see I have two files ice-9/boot-9.scm /usr/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/boot-9.scm /usr/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/boot-9.scm Could it be picking up the wrong one, or is that a red herring? Colin On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:57, Colin Law wrote: > Just upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 18

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
16:39, Colin Law wrote: > Further to this I see I have two files ice-9/boot-9.scm > /usr/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/boot-9.scm > /usr/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/boot-9.scm > Could it be picking up the wrong one, or is that a red herring? > > Colin > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:57

[GNC] Settings problem after update to 3.3 on Ubuntu - missing keys

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
I have updated a system from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 and gnucash has been automatically updated from version 2.6.19 to 3.3 from the Ubuntu repository. I noticed that I was not getting the alternating colours in the registers and when I went to Preferences > Register I can see that 'Use GnuCash built

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
upgrading and using a GnuCash you’d built yourself > before upgrading? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Oct 24, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > Yes, that was the issue (two versions of boot-9.scm). Having checked > > dependencies and so on, inc

Re: [GNC] Settings problem after update to 3.3 on Ubuntu - missing keys

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
That command should > be > run in the post-install phase by the package manager. I have no idea > though > exactly how this should be implemented in a deb package. > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op woensdag 24 oktober 2018 22:50:44 CEST schreef Colin Law: > > I have upda

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
e’s no > /home/colin/.caches/guile/2.0/ccache. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:06 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > This was an Ubuntu 18.04 machine with 2.16.9 installed from the Ubuntu > repo. I upgraded the machine to Ubuntu 18.10 and GC got upgrad

Re: [GNC] Settings problem after update to 3.3 on Ubuntu - missing keys

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
gt; Did you get any warnings when running that command ? Does it produce > errors if > you add --strict ? > > Geert > > Op donderdag 25 oktober 2018 15:36:48 CEST schreef Colin Law: > > Hi Geert > > > > I ran > > sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 16:51, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Be sure to do a shutdown and power on cycle first on th 18.10. When? The last thing that the upgrade to 18.10 does is a reboot. > I lost > access to my home directory on power up (got a mount: bad address > message). > > I had to

Re: [GNC] Preferences: editing transactions

2018-10-26 Thread Colin Law
Assuming you mean reconciled rather than saved then Edit > Reset Warnings. Colin On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 11:28, Alex via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi All > > In the last week I must have answered a question incorrectly. > > For as long as I can remember if I edited a saved

Re: [GNC] Preferences: editing transactions

2018-10-26 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 15:39, Alex via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Colin > > Thanks, that was the one. Except on my system it was Actions -> Reset > Oops, it is on mine too - typo. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@

Re: [GNC] Help please setting up savings account

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Law
I am not sure I understand what you mean by "add a savings account to the current checking account". Is you have a checking account and a savings account I would expect those to be separate accounts rather than one being in some way part of the other. Colin On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 19:35, rajhintz

Re: [GNC] No longer able to reconcile register accounts

2018-10-29 Thread Colin Law
I am seeing similar problems in the UK running 3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10, from Ubuntu repo. The issue occurs if one tries to enter 28/10/18 in the statement date, which is why the '-' fails. Any other date is ok whether entered using t, +, -, the calendar, or entering manually via the keyboard. I see t

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-01 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 08:23, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: > > On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: > > Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup > > You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links Please point out the errors so it can be corrected. Colin > -- > Wm > >

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-11-03 Thread Colin Law
Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796724 and add the above notes to it? Colin On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 10:18, Colin Law wrote: > > I have enabled the query log in mysql and when I attempt to save I first see > 2018-10-13T09:05:13.241000Z5 Connectroot@

Re: [GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work

2018-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 15:03, Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: > > Oh, Geert, I do so wish you were right. However, I think you missed the > sentence where I said that after the crash I unknowingly and unthinkingly and > quickly in order to restore my screen, I clicked on ‘Open Anyway’ and t

Re: [GNC] Below are my screen shots in .pdf format/previously they were .png files which did not go thru

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 09:40, Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: > > Dear Geniuses, > > I primarily want to know how to get rid of this .LNK file and unlock my > gnucash program so that I can use it again. You do not need to get rid of it. Open Gnucash and close any warning messages you get.

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Law
n Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 15:47, btrib wrote: > > True! ...however, text editor is unable to open the main data file. How can > the main file be manually accessed? In Edit > Preferences > General under Files clear the Compress Files checkbox. Then save it as xml and you will be able to edit it. That

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 19:11, btrib wrote: > > So, I'm just trying to understand, I deactivate compression and this makes > the file openable as xml? It would be quicker to try it than ask, but yes. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnuca

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-17 Thread Colin Law
Are you able to Save As mysql with the new server? Also have a look in the trace file and see what it says, often it will give more information in the case of db problems. Colin On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:07, Peter Holck wrote: > > I recently installed an updated version of MySQL Server (8.13) on

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-17 Thread Colin Law
what you found when you looked in the trace file. Colin > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 3:20 PM Colin Law wrote: >> >> Are you able to Save As mysql with the new server? >> Also have a look in the trace file and see what it says, often it will >> give more information in t

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-18 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:52, Peter Holck wrote: > > * 15:25:47 CRIT [GncDbiBackend::session_begin()] > Unable to connect to database 'gnucash' Please copy the list on replies, you sent this one just to me. On gmail use Reply All when replying. Are you able to connect to the server using the

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-18 Thread Colin Law
8.0 version used the old 5.6 port and vice versa (via > editing the my.ini config file) seems to have done the trick. > > Thanks! > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:21 AM Colin Law wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:52, Peter Holck >> wrote: >> > >>

[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

2018-11-26 Thread Colin Law
I have been using version 3.3 installed from the Ubuntu repository on Ubuntu 18.10 for some weeks. Suddenly today it will not open. When I run it from the command line I see the output below. The gnucash trace file is empty. Googling found similar problems during build and suggested renaming ~/.ca

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

2018-11-26 Thread Colin Law
I have tried removing ~/.local/share/gnucash but that didn't make any difference On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 09:55, Colin Law wrote: > > I have been using version 3.3 installed from the Ubuntu repository on > Ubuntu 18.10 for some weeks. Suddenly today it will not open. > When

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

2018-11-26 Thread Colin Law
likely locations are somewhere under /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op maandag 26 november 2018 17:49:35 CET schreef Colin Law: > > I have tried removing ~/.local/share/gnucash but that didn't make any > > difference > > On Mon, 26

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 10:49, Richard Jones wrote: > > Thank you Robert, Michael, Adrien and John for taking the time and trouble > to answer and explain. > This migration would require very careful planning, testing and a backup > plan if things go wrong. I will have to think hard as to whether i

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 12:40, Richard Jones wrote: > > Colin > Thanks for your reply. > Yes, I would do as you say - keep the existing system running, until the new > one was proved. > The risk I see is spending money on a new machine and then not being able to > use this application on it. > Bu

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 14:57, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > > > I hope you are going to be running Linux on the new machine. > > > > Colin > > Why

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 15:31, Robert Heller wrote: > ... > He is moving *from* a MS-Windows machine *to* an iMac. Oh yes, sorry, senile decay advancing at an ever increasing rate it appears. Now it seems I can't even read a few words without getting it wrong. Colin _

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-12-01 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:29, Colin Law wrote: > > Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796724 and > add the above notes to it? Could I have some direction on this please? Reopen the above bug or open a new one? Thanks Colin > > Colin > On Sat, 13

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-12-01 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 11:51, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 12:28:54 CET schreef Colin Law: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:29, Colin Law wrote: > > > Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796724 and > > > add the above not

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-12-01 Thread Colin Law
Bug opened https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796961 Colin On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 11:51, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 12:28:54 CET schreef Colin Law: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:29, Colin Law wrote: > > > Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucas

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-02 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 16:40, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > Hi all, > > This message is for two topics. If you respond, please either select one > topic or divide the message by topic to make it easier for me to follow the > messages. > > #1 Saving > I don't understand how to save Gnucash or properly cl

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-02 Thread Colin Law
see the file name in the top bar) and then the Save button should be back to normal. Colin > > Thanks, > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:53 AM Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 16:40, Lorrie Laskey wrote: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >>

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-02 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 18:01, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > The "save" option did get focus once I made a change and saved the file. > > However, the file name doesn't look right. See below. It is using the name > that I created when I used "save as" though I used "save" but the log file

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-04 Thread Colin Law
If it were an sqlite file then I don't think the Save button would ever be enabled. Colin On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 16:39, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > If you try to open the file with a text editor (I used Atom, because TextEdit > complained about something wrong with UTF-8 in the file) you will se

Re: [GNC] XML File

2018-12-17 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 21:15, Jack Lockard wrote: > > Is there any way to convert a compressed XML file back to an uncompressed one? Alternatively you can open it in GC, Change the GC settings to not compress the file, and Save As. Colin ___ gnucash-us

Re: [GNC] XML File

2018-12-17 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 21:33, Jack Lockard wrote: > > What is GC? GnuCash Colin > > -Original Message----- > From: Colin Law > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 4:30 PM > To: jelock...@outlook.com > Cc: gnucash-user > Subject: Re: [GNC] XML File > > O

Re: How to close a financial year

2017-05-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 May 2017 at 10:53, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: > Anita, > This is discussed pretty much every year on the list. Try googling "close > books gnucash site:lists.gnucash.org". You should find plenty of reading. Also note that there may be no need for you to close the books at all. The re

Re: Unsplitting vendor account

2017-05-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 May 2017 at 15:43, Rich Shepard wrote: > On occasion I'll split an expense for a vendor (e.g., a supermarket) into > two or more accounts (e.g., groceries and household goods). The next time I > purchase something from that same vendor the transfer column displays '-- > split transaction -

Re: Unsplitting vendor account

2017-05-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 May 2017 at 17:04, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Colin Law wrote: > >> Right Click > Remove Other Splits > > > Colin, > > What I discovered is that while other splits are removed, the transfer > column still displays 'split tran

Re: Hiding accounts

2017-05-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 May 2017 at 17:06, Dianna Broughton wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I hope I can explain my question well enough for someone to be able to > answer. > > > > I know how to hide unused accounts, but when I go an asset or liability > account, and choose an account in the Transfer column, all acco

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-04 Thread Colin Law
Chris If the reconcile window shows the same starting balance as your statement does and you have set the ending balance to that from the statement then after you tick off all the transactions from the statement then you should end up with a reconcile difference of zero. If you don't get zero then

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-04 Thread Colin Law
Michael, Do you mean you do not start by setting the ending balance in the reconcile opening dialog to that from the statement that you are reconciling against? Colin On 4 June 2017 at 12:29, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > On 6/3/2017 6:51 PM, EngineInstitute wrote: >> >> I am having problems rec

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-04 Thread Colin Law
he end balance chages to match the Gnucash opinion of the > balance for that date. If that does not match the statement then more work > is needed. Mike > > > > > Sent from Samsung tablet > > > > ---- Original message > From Colin Law > Date: 06

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-04 Thread Colin Law
> Also make sure you enter in the correct statement ending balance. > -derek > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity or typos. > > On June 4, 2017 11:07:01 AM EDT, Colin Law wrote: >>So what do you do if you have entered a cheque before the s

Re: GNUCash value proposition

2017-06-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 June 2017 at 03:21, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: > If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it > was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is > very hard, and without a client that you carry with you it is virtually > impossible, even if one exis

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-05 Thread Colin Law
Have you possibly entered a transaction the wrong way round (debit instead of credit or vise versa)? Then not noticed this when you tick it off? A suggestion earlier may be a good one if you still cannot find where you are going wrong. Draw lines on your statement after every, say, 4 entries. Then

Re: Reconciling an account

2017-06-06 Thread Colin Law
Have you tried the earlier suggestion of splitting the statement every few transactions and treating each group of three or four transactions as a separate statement and reconciling each group separately. Then you will tie the problem down to three or four so you should be able to see what is causi

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

2017-06-14 Thread Colin Law
What do you mean by 'quite large'? I have 15 years of (personal) data in mine and would not split it unless force to. It is great to be able to so easily look back to see when and where I bought the dishwasher (or whatever) and how much it cost. Mine is1.9 MBytes (compressed xml). Colin On 14 Jun

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

2017-06-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 June 2017 at 12:33, David Carlson wrote: > ... > My solution so far has been to buy a more powerful computer and use Ethernet > instead of WiFi to attach to the data file. Yes, a file save through WiFi > takes well over a minute for my data file which is now over 6MB compressed. Hopefully,

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

2017-06-14 Thread Colin Law
Please use Reply All (or similar) when replying to this list, otherwise your reply just goes to the previous poster. I am copying it to the list here. See also comments below. On 14 June 2017 at 17:00, George Riner wrote: > Just for comparison... > > My gnucash file is 4.7 Mb (compressed XML) on

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

2017-06-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 June 2017 at 13:29, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2017-06-14, Colin Law wrote: > ... >> Hopefully, thanks to the hard work of the developers, within just a >> few years the full database functionality will be implemented and >> load/save should be very much improved. > &

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

2017-06-17 Thread Colin Law
On 17 June 2017 at 02:31, AC wrote: > On 2017-06-16 09:35, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Adam Funk writes: >> Not necessarily. The "default" backend would be SQLite, which is a DB that stores into a single file. So it will act like the current XML backend in terms of storage, but not ne

Re: Notes column in SingleLine display

2017-06-18 Thread Colin Law
I think he/she wants both description and notes side by side in single line mode. @azalea4va before deciding that the feature does not need to be optional, try it on a 1024 width display with the tabs down the side. Colin On 18 June 2017 at 21:21, David Carlson wrote: > Well, if you read the ma

Re: New user questions

2017-06-20 Thread Colin Law
On 19 June 2017 at 22:54, Wesley Vick wrote: > Greeting > > I am a 30 years veteran of Law Enforcement and I have been working part time > with a security firm. I own my own police car, uniforms, equipment, etc. I > have tried to produce my own records system until, I found your software. I > h

Re: assistance request

2017-06-21 Thread Colin Law
On 21 June 2017 at 16:00, Cathy Hobart wrote: > Good morning. > > One of our groups was using GnuCash to keep their accounting records. The treasurer has left and turned over electronic records to me. However, I have been unable to use the software to access the backups he made. Would someone be a

Re: Notes column in SingleLine display

2017-06-25 Thread Colin Law
On 24 June 2017 at 20:58, azalea4va wrote: > Thank you Derek. I have figure out enough to get this working preliminarily > (doesn't that inspire confidence!). All the changes are confined to a > single file as was suggested, > /register/ledger-core/split-register-layout.c/. > > I moved the ASSOC

Re: Can't connect to my bank, help!

2017-06-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 June 2017 at 02:22, Sean Emerson wrote: > I got sick of the BS quicken is putting out, and I downloaded and installed > GnuCash 2.6.16. Looks good, but serious crash when I try to do the online > banking setup. When I hit the launch AqBanking Wizard button, it crashes. Have a look in the tr

Re: deleting .log files gnucash financial

2017-07-04 Thread Colin Law
On 3 July 2017 at 19:29, Carl Hofinga wrote: > My file dates go back to January 2014. The Preference shows to delete these > files in 30 days but that does not happen. Is there a faster way of deleting > these files then one by one? You should be able to use your system's file manager. Mark al

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user wrote: > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to import, but, I > cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any ideas? You have to export a QIF file from within quicken. Colin ___

Re: Ver. 2.4.11 recovery

2017-07-09 Thread Colin Law
.. On 9 July 2017 at 18:16, james wrote: > > GOOD NEWS, stroke of luck. The old lappy must have a bad mobo battery. > The date was set for 2006. So there were a few copyies made under the > 2006 date. I was able to load one of those up and it had all the data > complete history. > > I then reset

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac wrote: > Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive using fedora? Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data file? If you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash installed in fedora on the PC then that is no problem. I

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-14 Thread Colin Law
the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports to be on the drive there may be a little more work. Colin > > Thanks. > > > On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 14 July 2017 at

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 July 2017 at 08:37, Harry Hall wrote: > Hi > New to forum and looking for help. > Basically I have a new iMac and my old gnucash cash accounts are on my old > windows 10 PC. > I have downloaded gnucash for mac but unable to import the export > transactions files. The account files have cam

Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax Digital ?

2017-07-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 July 2017 at 11:43, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > On 25 July 2017 at 05:39, John Ralls wrote: > ... > If there's no desire/developer time to support this, then its not worth > giving it any more consideration. But IF there was a willingness to develop > it, then I think i

Re: transferring program

2017-07-26 Thread Colin Law
On 25 July 2017 at 22:45, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Am 25.07.2017 um 23:25 schrieb Blue Heron: >> Frank,> How do I transfer my GnuCash program and financial records recorded >> in > the program onto a different computer. I fear the computer I am > currently using is Vista, not d

Re: Name Does Not Show in Posts

2017-07-26 Thread Colin Law
On 26 July 2017 at 20:42, pfwoolver...@juno.com wrote: > > > My name does not show in my posts to the mailing list. My email shows in the > name field. > > I have my name in the optional name field in my Gnucash-user account. What > do I need to do to get my name to show? I don't think it is

Re: For UK users: Will gnucash get ready for Making Tax Digital ?

2017-07-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 July 2017 at 16:31, Alain Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:22:40AM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote: > >> SO (in my opinion, not a UK citizen, other disclaimers applicable, etc.) >> it's not a mathematical problem, it's a political one. > > +1 > > Which comes back to the question: wha

Re: gnucash update on debian errors, then stops

2017-08-01 Thread Colin Law
On 2 August 2017 at 02:24, John Griessen wrote: > I have not been able to upgrade gnucash for a while now. > > Will there be a usable gnucash in the next debian release? > If not, why not? You would probably have to direct that question to whoever packages it for Debian. If you want the latest t

Re: Scheduled Transaction Help :(

2017-08-02 Thread Colin Law
Can you show us the contents of the template transaction tab? Colin On 3 August 2017 at 01:16, Steve wrote: > I'm running Windows 10, GnuCash Version 2.6.17. > > After using GnuCash for a number of years, I finally am getting around to > using the Scheduled Transaction feature. Previously I wou

Re: Gnucash connect to remote 1and1 database server

2017-08-02 Thread Colin Law
What sort of database is it (mysql or whatever)? Can you access it by command line utilities on the PC or a simple GUI app? If so which? Colin On 3 August 2017 at 07:14, Bindiya Maharjan wrote: > > > > Hi all , > > > > I am trying to connect to remote database server without any success. Do you

Re: GnuCash

2017-08-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 August 2017 at 18:06, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > Am 06.08.2017 um 04:15 schrieb Jerry Lanese: >> Frank, >> I am a small business owner trying to use GNUCASH and having some problems. >> Is there anyone I can call. > > We have a moderated user list which I cc. You might cons

Re: Scheduled transactions for part year

2017-08-09 Thread Colin Law
On 8 August 2017 at 21:21, IanM wrote: > New to gnucash so finding it a bit difficult to get my head round details > Council tax (UK property tax) is paid by 10 regular monthly payments each > year (i.e. 2 months with no payment). Can this be done with scheduled > transactions and if so how - or

Re: Printing reports without spliting text across pages

2017-08-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 August 2017 at 11:31, Geert Janssens wrote: > On woensdag 9 augustus 2017 02:47:52 CEST Jeffrey Black wrote: >> The last post I can find on this is from 2013, and there were no >> satisfactory answers then. >> >> Does anyone know how or of a utility that will allow me to print reports >> with

Re: GnuCash Files names

2017-08-09 Thread Colin Law
Rather than renaming the current working file I suggest using File > Save As to save it with the new name (make sure you are saving to the right directory). Then when you open Gnucash the next time it will automatically re-open that file. Colin On 9 August 2017 at 20:41, Denis_gmail wrote: > No

Re: Duplicate transactions & OFX imports

2017-08-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 August 2017 at 00:33, David Carlson wrote: > Hi Actinistia, > ... > Fox (how can I turn SSO off?) import assistant tends to be rather error > prone during the matching step so double chEC andtriple check before > accepting. > > This will probably be the last time I use the Android version of

Re: Is there a GC function to separate a multi-split transaction into sepa rate, 2-split transactions?

2017-08-18 Thread Colin Law
I am not sure exactly what you mean. Can you explain a bit more about the situation you are in, and how you got to that position? Colin On 18 August 2017 at 16:24, Paul W. wrote: > I have multiple bank deposit items showing in a single, multi-split > transaction. > Is there a GC function to sep

Re: Is there a GC function to separate a multi-split transaction into sepa rate, 2-split transactions?

2017-08-20 Thread Colin Law
gt; > -- Original Message -- > From: Colin Law > To: "Paul W." > Cc: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" > Subject: Re: Is there a GC function to separate a multi-split transaction > into sepa rate, 2-split transactions? > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

2017-08-23 Thread Colin Law
What version of GnuCash are you using? Colin On 23 August 2017 at 21:41, Proberts042 wrote: > I have been using gnucash for about six months now, and really like it. Easy > to use, and does the job well for my small school. I want to use the Budget > feature, but whenever I try to set up a Budge

Re: Budget Slowing Down Windows 10

2017-08-24 Thread Colin Law
The point about memory is a good one @proberts042 I assume that Windows has a system monitor tool of some sort that you can run to see how much memory is being used. Try running that and then the report and see if you are running out of RAM Colin On 24 August 2017 at 22:59, David Carlson wrote:

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