David,
It's not a bad idea, but it sounds like a lot of work. When I do use this
feature, I tend to open the transaction with the Split button, click the
appropriate entry, and then click Jump. That's three mouse clicks; your fix
would involve two. Would there be enough UI improvement to pursu
View->Filter By
The account report shows all the visible transactions in the register. So
filter by the date range.
Original Message
From: David Long
Sent: Tue Dec 08 16:39:32 EST 2020
To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org"
Subject: [GNC] Account report
Hi, how can I select just t
I will add to Adrien's note to say that there were particularly significant
changes to the transaction report that have changed how that report manages the
suppression or display of transaction detail as well as totals. If you've saved
reports based on this, you will have to adjust them.
Becau
Maybe try Yahoo Json with symbol 4922.T?
Original Message
From: Richard Solomon
Sent: Sun Dec 20 00:32:02 EST 2020
To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org"
Subject: [GNC] Configuring Securities Editor for a Tokyo Stock Exchange listed
company.
I am trying to retrieve automatic pric
I went to Yahoo! Finance and searched for your company there. Having located
it, it was easy to see their notation on the page and in the URL.
Original Message
From: Richard Solomon
Sent: Sun Dec 20 03:03:51 EST 2020
To: "D."
Cc: David Reiser via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [G
Frank,
I didn't receive either boilerplate announcement in my inboxes, either-- a
point that John acknowledged directly. Something clearly went awry with the
mail in these cases.
Original Message
From: "Frank H. Ellenberger"
Sent: Mon Dec 28 21:04:06 EST 2020
To: py...@cox
I've somehow
noodled around on SF and now when there's a release, I get a SF release
notification email, FWIW
Kind regards,
Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 8:54 PM D. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrot
vid T.
Original Message
From: John Ralls
Sent: Wed Dec 30 11:41:42 EST 2020
To: "D."
Cc: Greg Feneis , GnuCash-User
Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.4 Announcement/GnuCash 4.3 Announcement
> On Dec 30, 2020, at 6:24 AM, D. via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>
> Thanks
It is more likely that the OP has or had a second monitor upon which gnucash is
placing its window, as the other response mentioned. This has happened to
others in the past.
David
Original Message
From: py...@cox.net
Sent: Sun Jan 03 20:06:11 EST 2021
To: 'alessandra derniat'
Robert,
You've replied to a thread that Rob started in 2011. I imagine he either has
figured this out, or given up on Gnucash by now.
But thanks for the links to your answers on StackExchange. It's always nice to
read other people's solutions to the common issues. Many of those have been
pla
Robert,
Personally, I think it makes more sense to ask questions about Gnucash at the
source, and with the user base who directly works with gnucash (gnucash-user),
rather than asking questions or posting suggestions at a general geek website.
But that's my own opinion.
For what it's worth,
Welcome back!
Let me start with the last point first: in my experience, Gnucash's developer
team is deeply committed to compatibility, and works to ensure that upgrades
preserve ALL previous data. Furthermore, the default data storage is XML, which
is text that is human readable, and fully tra
David,
I don't understand; could you explain what exactly is taking such a long time
to upgrade? I've been using Gnucash for, like, 15 years, and the upgrade
process (across multiple major versions [I believe I started around 2.0.5 or
so], using multiple installation methods [anyone remember f
The Total(Period) column includes the value of actual transactions during the
period. Changes in valuation aren't counted in this value because they are
unrealized. You are seeing a number in the one account precisely because you
rolled the money over from one account to another. That was an act
David,
Thanks for clarifying. I agree with all your points--especially about the fine
work of the developers!
David T.
Original Message
From: David Carlson
Sent: Fri Jan 08 18:03:03 EST 2021
To: "D."
Cc: Tfastle , David Reiser via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] Best wa
Muhammad,
Although someone is likely to correct me, my understanding is that GnuCash uses
ISO-4217 for its currency definitions. There are no facilities in place to add
user-defined currencies at this time, and I don't know whether there are plans
under way to change this. There are many who
of them to the same
> transfer account; just right-click after selecting and pick Assign Account
> from the context menu (it's the only option).
>
> Remember to save frequently so that you can easily go back if something goes
> wrong.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
On 1/
Well, I'd open the saved report, then the options for that report, select the
proper date, and click OK. If I wanted that change permanently, I'd then save
the new configuration.
In what way is this not working for you?
Best,
David T.
Original Message
From: Mahon Finbar
Adrien,
John Ralls provided advice that, because the OP had not used Gnucash much in
version 2.x, he might, in fact, be able to jump directly from that to 4.4. That
advice, as I noted, is non-standard, but may work-- and if it does, then
there's no real problem.
David T.
Original M
File -> Export -> Export Accounts
Original Message
From: Chris Green
Sent: Wed Jan 20 07:01:42 EST 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?
Is there any easy way to create a set of empty copies of an existin
For what it's worth, users should also know that this method establishes a new
date of acquisition for the shares, which may affect short term versus long
term capital gains calculations if the user isn't careful.
Original Message
From: Robin Chattopadhyay
Sent: Fri Jan 22 0
David,
I think your question is beside the point. I suspect that John is trying to
connect to his accounts directly using one of those direct connect protocols,
and his institution is not recognized. I assume this because there is nothing
in GnuCash that I could imagine that would prevent him
This message from 2014 covers the same problem:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-February/052767.html
Original Message
From: Doug
Sent: Sat Jan 30 17:19:33 EST 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] find and replace
Just a quick idea:
Perhap
I'd ask how many transactions you've got to edit-- because over the years, I've
had many opportunities to bulk edit transactions (new ideas on account setups,
realizations that what I'd been doing didn't meet my needs or goals, etc.).
In every case, it's been quite easy to change even large num
Although I don't use the sqlite back end, I can answer that:
1) yes log files happen with the db back ends
2) no you can't change the log file directory (this is a long long long
standing request)
3) not sure, but probably you could
Original Message
From: Chris Green
S
Chris,
What documentation were you consulting that is "completely wrong"?
David
Original Message
From: Chris Green
Sent: Wed Feb 03 04:40:45 EST 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:33:19PM -0500
Ah. That isn't fully wrong, but it is somewhat misleading. I think it's meant
to imply that the log files aren't useful with the sql back ends (because the
changes are committed to the db immediately), but I couldn't tell you for sure,
as I didn't write that section. It looks as if the note migh
As noted in the docs somewhere, double click the column header-- assuming that
your issue is that the numbers are cut off, that is. You didn't really specify.
Original Message
From: Terence Redmond
Sent: Sun Feb 07 00:03:40 EST 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC]
So, then grab the right side if the Description column and drag it arbitrarily
to the left. When you let go, it will resize to fill the space, leaving the
balance column fully displayed. This, too, is covered in the docs somewhere,
and possibly in the wiki.
David T.
Original Message
Forwarding to the list, to close the loop.
Original Message
From: Terence Redmond
Sent: Sun Feb 07 11:08:15 EST 2021
To: "D."
Subject: Re: [GNC] Account Register
Thank you. Familiarity takes time!
*Terry Redmond18 Mileura StreetGOLDEN BAY WA 6174**0421 692 946*
On Sun
But David, how would this setting affect some credit card accounts, but not
others?
Original Message
From: David H
Sent: Mon Feb 08 16:34:17 EST 2021
To: Robert Stocker
Cc: Gnucash Users
Subject: Re: [GNC] Credit Card payment pop-up doesn't appear on *some* credit
card acc
Or, if you insist on using the Account Report, filter the register to include
the dates in question (View->Filter by) before you click the Account Report
option. But really, the Transaction Report (Reports->Transaction Report) is a
better experience overall.
Original Message
Additionally, I might suggest duplicating transactions for the dates in
question. I do that all the time to catch up in accounts I rarely check. It's
quite easy then to modify as needed.
David T.
Original Message
From: David H
Sent: Sun Feb 14 01:26:28 EST 2021
To: bdp3
C
Yep. That's how it is. To hide accounts in the popup, you also have to set it
as a placeholder. Cf. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397135
David
Original Message
From: Bill Wohler
Sent: Sun Feb 14 19:03:09 EST 2021
To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Hi
I'll mention that you can add both the hidden and the placeholder columns onto
your Chart of Accounts window. They appear as check boxes, and you can change
their values directly by clicking them in the window. Thus, you can quickly set
both these flags from that screen. Note that if your CoA is
@lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts appear in popups
You can mark an account that contains transactions as a placeholder? I
didn't think that was possible. Sounds like another bug.
Regards,
Adrien
On 2/14/21 10:22 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Yep. That's ho
Geoff,
That was an excellent answer, and explains clearly a big reason why users
should strive to limit their transactions to leaf nodes in the account
hierarchy. (My own books include numerous violations of this premise, BTW)
Gnucash has always allowed users to put transactions in intermediat
That's certainly less onerous than renumbering over and over again, but it's
not great. But thank you for one idea!
Original Message
From: Geoff
Sent: Thu Feb 25 15:43:52 EST 2021
To: "David T." , Gnucash Users
Subject: Re: [GNC] Account Sort Order
Hi David
> Can anyone te
ount) is a
tax-light savings vehicle.
Eric
==
On 25/02/2021 23:12, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> That's certainly less onerous than renumbering over and over again, but it's
> not great. But thank you for one idea!
>
>
> Original Message
ISTR that there is a place in the settings to choose the character to display
with each currency. Never tried it though.
Original Message
From: Gio Bacareza
Sent: Sat Feb 27 09:18:47 EST 2021
To: Jim DeLaHunt
Cc: GnuCash Users
Subject: Re: [GNC] currency symbol problem in r
Back in 2012, I wrote, and it's true today (with additional iterations of the
topic in 2016 & 2018):
This comes up with some regularity.
There is an enhancement request at:
http://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1470507-configuration-option-for-backup-location
Mike,
This is already a long standing request, both in bugzilla and uservoice. See my
other message on this thread for details.
David T.
Original Message
From: Mike Brady
Sent: Sun Feb 28 15:22:23 EST 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Moving Log Location
Evelyn,
It sounds as if you're trying to enter the currency-denominated entry on the
same split as the initial anchor split. In other words, you're putting your
capital gain figure on the same split line as your anchor split, which must be
in the commodity. Gnucash tries to straighten that out
My entry was backwards; you have the income entry, but you need a cash account
to receive the gains. It doesn't belong in the commodity account.
Original Message
From: "D. via gnucash-user"
Sent: Sun Feb 28 16:02:47 EST 2021
To: Evelyn Yamanaka
Cc: gnucash-u
IANA, but yes and no. I believe realized gains/losses are income;
traditionally, unrealized gains are Not Real, and thus not tracked. If, for
some reason, you want or need to track unrealized gains/losses, I'd enter them
as income as well. But, like I said, IANA, so someone will come in and tell
Record losses as negative income.
Original Message
From: gnu Gord
Sent: Tue Mar 02 19:10:49 EST 2021
To: David Cousens
Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Capital Gains
Thanks for the explanation.
I was trying to follow the example in Chapter 11 of the GnuCash
Do
Left unsaid in this reply is the fact that GnuCash does not, I believe, run at
all under IOS (or Android, for that matter). So a screen sharing solution is
likely to be your only option.
Original Message
From: Adrien Monteleone
Sent: Thu Mar 04 21:50:32 EST 2021
To: gnucash-
Elmar,
The AQbanking connection is a commercially-maintained black box protocol that
was previously reverse engineered by the diligent volunteer maintainer of the
AQbanking package. The fact that it failed when the commercial vendor altered
the innards inside the box is not surprising. The ongo
Sure, I understand. No problem! I am pretty sure the problem is on the Quicken
side, rather than AQbanking. Others who have reported these problems over the
last year or so have also noted that their attempts to negotiate with their
financial institutions have been met with resistance from the b
When I look at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME, I think it
says for Linux, GNC_DATA_HOME is USER_DATA_HOME/gnucash, and USER_DATA_HOME is
$HOME/.local/share, so that should turn into $HOME/.local/share/gnucash
A similar look at GNC_CONFIG_HOME yields $HOME/.c
Well, considering that the NAV in the example is "USD 2150.31" and the 5366.43
in the example actually represents the fund size, I'd imagine you should get
the former as the NAV.
Original Message
From: Peter West
Sent: Thu Mar 18 09:24:34 EDT 2021
To: Geoff
Cc: gnucash-user@
Or, you could try: Options->Display->Show table on the original report.
Original Message
From: Geoff
Sent: Fri Mar 19 04:39:43 EDT 2021
To: Jack Frillman , gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Totals On Expense Chart
Hi Jack
I am on version 4.4 and find that the "Repo
File->Export Accounts
Original Message
From: Keith Fetterman
Sent: Sat Mar 20 21:14:40 EDT 2021
To: GnuCash users group
Subject: [GNC] How To Remove All Transactions
I need to create a copy of an existing GnuCash file that does not have the
transactions. I need to keep the
That saves accounts, but I believe not any of the business objects,
unfortunately.
Original Message
From: "D. via gnucash-user"
Sent: Sat Mar 20 21:18:51 EDT 2021
To: Keith Fetterman
Cc: GnuCash users group
Subject: Re: [GNC] How To Remove All Transactions
Fi
New loan gets a new liability account. Transaction from new loan top old loan
pays off old loan. Old loan goes to zero, is reconciled, and can be set as
placeholder and hidden, if desired. Future transactions pay new loan.
On Mar 21, 2021, 09:26, at 09:26, Parker Graham wrote:
>Have mortgage s
You don't *have* to choose from the list. Type what you want.
Original Message
From: Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
Sent: Sun Mar 21 14:14:32 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Adding Namespace Item to Price Editor
In the GNUCash Price Editor you have to c
Michael,
I have only done this once long ago, and my experience is/was that, ultimately,
it all ends up as a currency-valued transaction, so it makes sense to treat the
vesting process as a transfer of cash that is converted into the stock. If you
are in the US, you will discover that the IRS
I'd just note that there is a Mutual Fund account type (although functionally,
I believe they are equivalent to Stock accounts).
Original Message
From: viking
Sent: Sat Mar 27 21:33:59 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Investments: Bank, Asset or Equity?
In my experience, the issue is that money diverted to a retirement vehicle is
registered as (some form of) income at the time of initial receipt, and
diverted into the tax preferred asset account, so as to track those funds. When
pay out from the retirement account occurs, however, the retiree i
If you go through the process, entering the final balance where indicated and
checking off all the transactions that should be, does the account reconcile?
If so, then you don't need to do anything else.
If not, then you need to figure out which transactions have been erroneously
marked as rec
There is literally nothing that prevents you from simply creating the
transaction on the date you want, the old fashioned way-- that is, manually.
Autofill will make entry straightforward.
If, by chance you fail to prevent the normally scheduled transaction from
getting created, you simply del
Stan,
I'm going to wager that Andrew is on a Mac, because he said that when he
clicked one account, another opened. This strongly implies the oddity that Mac
users cannot double click on a GnuCash file in Finder and have that file open.
It will always trigger Gnucash for the last file opened.
Apparently:
SubcategoriesTopicsPostsLast Post
GnuCash - User
157238161310:54pm by Frank H. Ellenberger...
GnuCash - Patches
17926180731:54pm by Frank H.Ellenberger
GnuCash - Dev
725533039Apr 01 by Liz
GnuCash - Announce
178233Mar 10 by Derek Atkins-3
Original Message
If not clear, those are the lists indicated at Nabble. Not a very complete
listing, to be sure.
Original Message
From: "D. via gnucash-user"
Sent: Mon Apr 05 23:20:17 EDT 2021
To: "Frank H. Ellenberger"
Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org, Christian posteo
Su
Frank,
We should keep this on the list.
I've read through this bug, and a related bug mentioned in the comments there,
and I admit I do not understand the various points of the discussions there.
If my experience can be explained by these changes, though, I'd like to point
out that in my us
I'll jump in just to say that it is perfectly fine to copy and paste saved
report configurations into and out of saved-reports-2.8. For a while, I had a
strange problem where my reports file kept being truncated, and I had to copy
in my reports numerous times. I've also heard of a user who scrip
Frank,
Thank you for an explanation. I have tested your advice and found it wanting.
Here are my observations after a morning of tests:
* The new code creates a new equity account whenever the new account has a
different currency/commodity than the base currency of the book regardless of
the
Thanks everyone. So it would appear that the new Type ahead (I am using the
appropriate terminology here) code has an initialization problem that numerous
users have observed. I have submitted bug 798162 to document this.
David T.
Original Message
From: Evelyn Yamanaka
Sen
Not to mention cropping out the content of said digest when starting something
new. This is all covered in the wiki:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists#Netiquette
Original Message
From: Stan Brown
Sent: Mon Apr 12 10:54:16 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subjec
From the Tutorial & Concepts Guide, section 5.1:
You can enter this [the opening balance] in the account information window
automatically as part of the New Account Hierarchy Setup assistant, or you can
enter a manual transaction directly in the account. To enter the transaction
manually, ente
Frank,
I'm all for removing Appendix D from the Guide, since the UK entry is the only
one there. But then, you knew I'd say that.
David T.
Original Message
From: "Frank H. Ellenberger"
Sent: Fri Apr 23 13:29:21 EDT 2021
To: Ian McFarlane
Cc: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org"
S
Yes David, appendix C. I am challenged that way.
Frank: there isn't really any content in appendix C, except this outdated
listing. Why not move it to the wiki, where someone (like the OP) could
actually make changes?
Original Message
From: David Carlson
Sent: Fri Apr 23 1
I agree that having the info available is useful; I sincerely doubt that an
appendix in the Guide is the appropriate place for that info, however.
Original Message
From: David Carlson
Sent: Fri Apr 23 19:24:44 EDT 2021
To: "Frank H. Ellenberger"
Cc: "D." , Gnucash Users
Sub
Rich,
Not quite. Using your method, open the account, open View->Filter by, set your
dates, then run the account report.
Alternatively, open the generic Transaction report, in options, choose the
account in question, and set the dates.
I prefer option 2, inasmuch as I don't have to remember t
Perhaps it's time to look into ways to decouple our mailing list more fully
from nabble (which is where the biggest misunderstandings seem to originate
with regards to list subscriptions). Gnucash.org shouldn't suffer because of
nabble's practices.
David
On September 21, 2019, at 5:08 AM, Dale
Start with chapter 9.7 in the Tutorial
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html
On September 22, 2019, at 9:26 AM, TAKASHI KANAMORI
wrote:
Hello.
In addition to entering the number of shares, the stock price, and the
total amount when posting the gain on sale of shar
Maybe not, but Adrien hypothesized that users may report Gnucash mail as spam
because they ask us to unsubscribe, when they are subscribed to nabble. I was
responding to that, prematurely.
David
On September 23, 2019, at 10:13 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
HI,
D via gnucash-user writes
Moreover, when next you go to reconcile, that entry for 2010 will display up at
the very top of the reconcile window, and one might wonder at that, see the
incorrect date and fix it.
[Technically, Gnucash doesn't store the reconciled amount, it calculates it at
each reconcile for all transactio
Paul,
I confirm the behavior you describe, and I can tell you that it's been in that
dialog for a very long time. I believe it has always behaved that way for me
(and I've been using Gnucash over a decade). It probably is a bug, but I just
used the same workaround that you found, and moved on.
David,
Paul's description is accurate, so your expectation would not be met. The
dialog defaults to creating a circular transaction. Paul's remedy is the same
as my own.
David T.
On October 8, 2019, at 7:18 AM, David Carlson
wrote:
I have not used that interest feature in the reconcile dia
Reading the error, I'd say you have a scheduled transaction named "CHECKING
STATEMENT" that refers to a no-longer-valid account ID.
Did you by chance delete your checking account at some point and then create a
new account for it?
David
On October 14, 2019, at 10:19 AM, RICHARD YENTZER wrote
Hi,
Please keep the list in the loop by copying Gnucash users.
I would look in the Scheduled Transaction Editor. There is some transaction
there, I believe, which is named CHECKING STATEMENT. This scheduled transaction
includes an entry that refers to an account by its (hidden) GUID*, which no
On October 21, 2019, at 10:40 PM, Adrien Monteleone
wrote:
>Certainly, to each their own. I enjoy reading of other’s process and workflows
>and why they make certain decisions. Thanks for offering yours.
>My own experiences are in-line:
>> On Oct 21, 2019 w43d294, at 2:15 AM, James Thorpe
>>
Installation is covered in the wiki, and linked directly on www.gnucash.org on
the navigation menu (4th item under "Information")--"Installation".
David
On October 22, 2019, at 3:48 AM, David H wrote:
I copy everything to Applications/GnuCash and run it from there, you can't
run it from the dm
Well, then you couldn't hide columns.
David
On October 22, 2019, at 5:01 AM, David Carlson
wrote:
Jim, Glad that you solved your problem.
Others, I think that the current release behaves exactly the same way.
Would it be worth while to propose an enhancement to have some minimum
column widt
I haven't tried this, but...
Perhaps in this situation, barring a restart, you could use the transaction
report, using the credit card as the source and the checking as a filter by
account. This could further be refined by description, or sorted in a way that
could ease the editing burden.
Dav
Fran,
First off, what version of Gnucash, on what OS?
On October 31, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user
wrote:
>1 - I began saving recent report configurations with a dash like in order to
>distinguish them from other reports...
>But, some of them disappear later on when I attempt to r
Christopher,
It's a saved report configuration, not a custom report. I did not and do not
code Scheme. Any value saved is based on what I was given by the UI. If I saved
'6', it's because Gnucash gave me that option. So, someone changed the
definition somewhere along the line, it would seem.
D
Further, is there some magical aspect to the number 5 that would suggest it to
be the 'ideal' maximum depth for this setting? Why have a maximum at all?
On November 9, 2019, at 10:34 PM, D via gnucash-user
wrote:
Christopher,
It's a saved report configuration, not a custom re
It's a known issue that is being addressed.
On November 11, 2019, at 8:35 AM, Phillip Walsh
wrote:
Have been trying to open www.gnucash.org since last week
get message
This site can’t be reached
Phillip Walsh
4/2 Kenneth Road
Bayswater VIC
Australia 3153
Mobile 0419 320 393
Home 03 9720 7685
Sounds like the window is on a phantom screen, still running but not visible.
Have you used a second monitor on this system? I don't recall the fix for this
problem...
David
BTW, operating system and Gnucash version number usually help list users help
you.
On November 15, 2019, at 2:41 AM, Do
Perhaps "link" would better convey what these are--links to external resources.
On November 16, 2019, at 12:03 AM, Adrien Monteleone
wrote:
Hmm... Okay then. I don’t get ‘external’ from the name as-is, but that’s just
me.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Nov 15, 2019 w46d319, at 12:03 PM, Geert Janssens
Louis,
Lots of things can cause a QIF import failure. It's usually a formatting
problem--a tag where one isn't expected, for example.
One common problem is that the dates in the file do not match the locale
settings. That is, your file has DD-MM- but your locale uses MM-DD-.
If the pr
Rizwan,
I am intrigued. You say you're a new user, but you have 500,000 transactions.
Wow!
You've been getting the usual kinds of responses to your question: how fast is
your computer, how many reports are you running, be patient, don't close
Gnucash, etc.
But it sounds as if you're pushing
I don't really agree. David's wording identifies one situation for this dialog,
and not even the primary reason for the lock file in the first place.
Remember that the lock file and this check exist firstly to prevent multiple
users from opening the file at one time--and that is still a possibi
On November 18, 2019, at 8:02 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>Hi,
>I think I have a suggestion for some better wording. See below.
>How about:
>The data file is currently in use. Most likely this means that the data
>file was not cleanly closed (due to a crash) after it was last opened.
>If you are
On November 18, 2019, at 9:12 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>Perhaps a message saying "Error 5135 if you don't understand what this
>means then you should have read the wiki" would be a solution.
>Colin
Certainly, it could be. But it wouldn't be a good one, and I think you should
know I wasn't sugges
Clearly, I am in the minority here. I'll drop out of this conversation now.
David T.
On November 18, 2019, at 10:26 PM, Stan Brown
wrote:
On 2019-11-18 08:56, D wrote:
> Adding to the error message to account for when the software crashes
> seems like overkill (as does linking to the documen
If you delete every data element in the anchor split, and TAB of the end, the
split will be deleted, and the transaction will disappear from the register.
I've been using this technique for years to clear out the Imbalance-USD account
when items appear there.
D.
On November 18, 2019, at 11:25
That usually means that the currency you are using does not have a character in
the display font. Check your currency, try a different font, and report back.
David T.
P.s. When you report back, do let us know what OS you are using, what Gnucash
version you are using, and what your locale is.
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