I reiterate my objections to these changes, and note that as the prefixes get
longer, it gets harder and harder for readers using small screens (think smart
phones or tablets) to see the actual subject of a given email.
Bleah!
David T.
On April 9, 2018, at 5:07 PM, Andy Pastuszak wrote:
GNC
Ralph,
I am fully aware of the limitations of self-selected surveys and their validity
of gauging sentiment. I was not intending to submit my research to any peer
reviewed journals.
I *will* note that the replies to my own non-scientific survey continue to
trend at about three to one against,
Adrien,
Thanks for the reply. I already looked at the files.
This has happened twice, once about a year and a half ago, and once last week.
When it happened first, I assumed a glitch in my machine, and focused on
recovery. This is incident number two. So, there's no opportunity to discern
any
Florian,
With regard to item 3, is the field marker in the source file a comma, or a
semi colon? If it's a comma, then your sample note will get put into the note
field with the semi colons intact. If the delimiter is a semi colon, then your
import will be messed up until you eliminate the extr
FYI: ofx and qfx are, as I understand, functionally equivalent. OFX is the
generic version, while QFX is Quicken's version of the same.
David T
On May 17, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Dennis Powless wrote:
Is qfx the only output/export you get from your bank? If you can try ofx
or try to do the ex
Frank,
I know that you and I disagree on this point, but I still feel that documenting
Finance::Quote should not be part of the Gnucash mission. That information
should be placed in F::Q docs, where it properly belongs.
David
On May 19, 2018, at 6:34 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger"
wrote:
Am 17.
A point that's been glossed over: if you've only created two Gnucash files, why
has the first one dropped off the previous files list? I think that the default
for that menu is four. That means your first file should still be there. Or
have you been opening other files as well (like maybe backup
Long ago, I changed to having the tabs go down the left side of the window.
That's kept me happy on the tab front for a good while!
David
On May 30, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Bruce Lang wrote:
I love the new look - so much better and cleaner.
I have 8 tabs open at any one time and can see 6 without s
Possible? Anything is possible. However, knowing the community, I doubt you'll
get much traction. The developer pool is shallow, unfortunately.
Given the fact that a spreadsheet is a much better tool for the kind of
manipulations I imagine you're seeking, the devs are going to focus on bigger
c
In my experience, Gnucash always opens the last file I had open. How are you
calling Gnucash such that it doesn't open the last file?
David
P.s. What version, what OS?
On June 3, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
When I boot up and want to go to Gnucash I have to hunt through the
fil
Les,
You say that you cannot enter a price manually. That is exceptional, as in not
at all expected. What steps are you taking? When I try to enter a price, I have
to select a commodity from the existing commodities first. If you cannot see
your commodity on this list, then there is something w
Sounds like you are moving your files from the operating system (e.g., using
Mac's Finder, or Windows Explorer). Are you? Gnucash can't find what you've
moved.
David
On June 24, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
When I want to go back to Gnucash I have to go to the "BusinessGnuCash"
f
Shelley,
Welcome.
It looks from your example like you have your main accounts in USD, and your
sub accounts in Canadian dollars. I do not use multiple currencies, but I
believe that your problem stems from this. Someone who uses multiple currencies
should be able to give you more specific guid
David,
You've now misstated twice that Placeholder accounts cannot have transactions,
and I feel it is important to make it unambiguously clear to anyone reading
this thread that there is nothing in Gnucash that prevents placeholder accounts
from having transactions.
Setting an account as a p
explicitly that GnuCash doesn’t enforce that and he correctly described how
GnuCash handles placeholder accounts having transactions.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Jun 28, 2018, at 6:39 AM, D via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> You've now misstated twice that Plac
On June 28, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>Op donderdag 28 juni 2018 18:47:18 CEST schreef Stephen M. Butler:
[Snip]
>> Maybe the financial folks can band together to get the developers to
>> enforce no-transactions to a parent account.
>I think we should modify the concepts. "Placeh
Only manually, a transaction at a time.
What happens if you ignore the opening balance, enter the correct closing
balance, and reconcile then?
Often, if there's an inconsistency in the opening balance, you can proceed with
reconciling, mark your current transactions and any earlier ones that we
I'm glad you've fixed it.
On June 30, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Roger Miskowicz wrote:
I have fixed my account but not sure about the root cause.
I fixed it by manually, item-by-item, clearing all reconciles which set the
Starting Balance to zero. After which I was able to reconcile producing
res
Shug,
I would ask you to tell us what error message you have received, since I don't
usually see any error messages when I run this report. (I do have trouble
getting this report to balance, however).
However, David has made useful advice regarding tracking transaction gain or
loss; I would ad
I was going to note that one can edit transactions during the reconcile process
by double clicking the transaction, making your changes, and returning.
On August 17, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Adrien Monteleone
wrote:
Rich,
That might be a bug, not sure, you could file one or maybe a developer will
c
And you will find said documentation in the Guide at 2.3.3.
David
On August 20, 2018, at 2:32 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
On Mon, August 20, 2018 2:20 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Of course, that all makes sense.
>
> The other improvements, specifically how to resize columns, particularly
> the
Allison,
You mention that you click on "the icon on the bar," so I wonder if you are
encountering an odd window position, as discussed at
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-June/077584.html
David
On August 26, 2018, at 6:16 PM, David Carlson
wrote:
Allison,
Windows 10 ju
I should mention that this thread alerted me to the problems that Excel csv
files can cause with the importer. My own attempts to import price data also
failed, as I was using Excel as a source. I attempted to use different
encoding, as this person did, but none of the many format choices solved
Hello,
On September 1, 2018, at 2:59 AM, Rob wrote:
>Hi All:
>I've added multiple stocks and mutual funds into the security editor of
>gnuCash. Using AlphaVantage, I have also tested the retrieval of quotes
>using the command line tool gnc-fq-dump. I've noticed a few things:
> 1. If I use the
I'd suggest using account codes to set your account order, and then add that
column to your COA and support on it.
HTH,
David
On September 3, 2018, at 6:25 PM, Alan Maddocks
wrote:
Hi,
I have been using GnuCash version 2.6.6, and in the Chart of Accounts view,
when clicking in the 'Account
I forgot about those.
These are written in the code, so my guess is that they are hard. But I'm
hardly a programmer. Where in the Guide are these documented?
David
On September 10, 2018, at 3:50 PM, Adrien Monteleone
wrote:
I just looked at the guide and some of those are there. The Shift an
I think you just close the search tab.
On September 14, 2018, at 6:13 PM, David Carlson
wrote:
While I happen to be using release 2.6.19 or so, I think my problem is
still current. I opened a general ledger view then I searched for
transactions containing certain text in the description. This
It's a wiki, so any Windows user could add this. Not being a Windows user, I
have no experience with the issue.
David
On September 28, 2018, at 4:24 PM, Liz wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:22:53 + (UTC)
Robert Felten via gnucash-user wrote:
> since updating to 3.2 whenever i try to "Save
It looks like you are writing that for gtk2. Check out the link for gtk3
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3.
David
On October 3, 2018, at 2:35 PM, prl wrote:
On my Mac (OS X 10.11.6), GnuCash 3.3 (native, not X Window) has
increased the font size in the registers.
I tried to reduce it by cre
Peter,
Rather than tacking all your issues into this announcement message, could you
start new threads for new issues? It is difficult to monitor issues if they are
all rolled into one topic.
Thanks.
David T.
On October 4, 2018, at 2:34 PM, prl wrote:
Another thing I can't work out in GNC 3.
I've noticed this oddity as well. Seems to me one of the buttons needs to be
removed. I'd vote for the OK button, with the understanding that the next
button would be fixed.
David
On October 7, 2018, at 10:39 PM, Adrien Monteleone
wrote:
Looks like a UI/UX bug to me. That button should be to
Adrien,
I can't put my fingers on the message right now, but John noted recently noted
in a thread that there was a difference in interpretation of resolutions at
Apple involving pixel density, which resulted in the change in appearance.
David
On October 20, 2018, at 2:56 AM, Adrien Monteleon
Dmitry,
Double check that every security is using Yahoo JSON. It is easy to overlook
one stock, and the whole thing breaks. It is possible in the security editor
list to add a column showing the price source, so that it is easy to see all
your sources at once.
David T.
On October 22, 2018, at
Ryan,
Another option is to suggest to your bank that they are not implementing OFX
properly, and encourage them to issue unique ACCTIDs for each account...
On October 23, 2018, at 4:46 PM, Ryan Boder wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:31 PM David Reiser wrote:
> > On Oct 22, 2018, at 9:27 PM,
raw the PR, but Geert overruled
me), I'm in limbo.
David
On October 23, 2018, at 3:44 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger"
wrote:
Hi David,
can you create a tip of the day from your suggestion?
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/doc/tip_of_the_day.list.c
TIA
Frank
Am 22.10.
Just copy them. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup.
On October 25, 2018, at 10:29 PM, Nigel Freestone
wrote:
I have GNU 2.4 on an old rapidly dying PC (Win 7)
I now have the latest version (3.3) on a new PC (Win 10)
How do I get my two sets of accounts data (Work and Home) from the old
Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
HTH,
David
On October 31, 2018, at 6:23 AM, Bob Hammons wrote:
I have been using Gnucash since the first of the year. The data files are in a
directory named gnucash and it save a lot of backups. I am using Windows 10. I
open filer and control c
On November 2, 2018, at 5:44 PM, David Carlson
wrote:
>If I recall correctly QDF format is a proprietary and encrypted format
>owned by Intuit. The only way to extarct the data is to use the Guicken
>program to open the file and then export to QIF format. Hang on to Quicken
Indeed, https://
On November 2, 2018, at 5:59 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>Yes, there should be an Export... QIF function in Quicken.
>I did that recently for a club account which was pretty straight-forward,
>no stocks, etc.
>The main problem I found was that when your Quicken database
>has a transfer from one a
On November 2, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>Perhaps your Quicken had no transfers between accounts?
Nope. I had numerous accounts and thousands of transfers and transactions. I
exported the entire file (using the then-available "export accounts,
categories, and transactions", don
If OP is looking to track gains using FIFO, wouldn't the lots functionality
work for them? I believe that it uses FIFO exclusively...
David T.
On November 14, 2018, at 8:23 PM, David Carlson
wrote:
I think that Christian is asking a slightly different question. I
interpret it that in one par
Christian,
I have changed the subject line of this thread because you have decided to
focus your response on telling me how I have (or should have) experienced this
dialog.
Your initial contribution to this discussion was to promote your own superior
intelligence ( "I understand it just fine.
Lorrie,
You also should take a look at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_is_my_file_name_getting_longer_and_longer.3F
David
On December 2, 2018, at 11:47 PM, Lorrie Laskey wrote:
Hi Colin,
I understand. Since I don't really need to know the minute and seconds when
a file is saved at t
The installation for Gnucash is like many other Mac apps that I've loaded that
had a dmg file that opened up, and the user was expected to drag the app into
the Applications folder. Someone must have felt this was a common enough
practice to obviate the need for explanation.
Unfortunately, addi
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F
On December 3, 2018, at 11:15 PM, Gareth Davies via gnucash-user
wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me why there are a load of text files in the folder I save
Gnucash to, and can they be safely
So, what are the files called?
On December 4, 2018, at 1:07 AM, Gareth Davies
wrote:
Thanks for the reply D, but under the file type is says Text Document which can
be opened in Notepad.
I might be missing it but I can’t find that reference in the link you sent
From: D [mailto:sunfis
Try a double click on the dark line.
On December 6, 2018, at 9:42 PM, Gerry Starnes wrote:
Resending this request. It really is important that I'm able to see and
change the Transfer account assigned! I have closed and re-opened the
account, Tab is still gone. I've tried to grab and stretch the
Also, the file name should be "config.user" and not " config.user.txt"
The file *type* should be text.
On December 6, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Christopher Lam
wrote:
There's some reports about the (gnc-build-userdata-path) part causing
problems.
Try the following instead:
(load (pk (gnc-build-userda
I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but perhaps it will be cleared
if I tell you that reconciling is a process that applies **as of a certain
date.**
In other words, the bank says my balance *as of* December 11 is $100.00. When I
reconcile, I enter that closing balance, and then conf
Which is covered in the wiki at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#Moving_Multiple_Transactions
David
On December 13, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Liz wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:33:13 -
wrote:
> Thursday 13th Dec
> I have set up 5 accounts to allocate particular categories of
> transact
Hi,
I don't use scheduled transactions much.
I also don't know what Andrew is referring to. Dave seems to think it's the
menu for actions, but Andrew's last message suggests he is talking about the
Action field in a given transaction. A little more clarity will help here. If
it is the field, e
Having been a 1and1 customer before, I can't imagine how you would set it up to
work with Gnucash directly. Especially if you aren't familiar with the command
line. I admit that my account with them was a basic one, so it may be that your
account has better features. But still...
If you want to
While my understanding of the budget features lacks depth, I do believe that
the estimating features average the transactions in the time frame you choose,
so the start date should reflect the time period for which you want estimates
derived. If your expenses have been stable for a long time, yo
Johnny,
I wish I could offer you some guidance, but I have none to offer, sorry.
Maybe you should switch to Windows... ;)
(Said because whenever someone on Windows has a problem, someone always seems
to suggest switching to Linux)
David
On August 11, 2017, at 11:17 AM, johnny saylor wrote:
Rs,
I don't know exactly what your problem is, but I will ask the obvious: you *do*
have nseindia.pm in your installation? F::Q seems to be unhappy about that...
I also note that there is a F::Q mailing list to which you might also direct
your question. It's hosted through SourceForge.
David
Rs,
I am not familiar with NSE India, but 125112 doesn't seem like a valid ticker
symbol. The NSE India website seems to use letter symbols; does the equity you
want have one?
David
On August 11, 2017, at 5:35 PM, rs wrote:
Thanks John and David.
I could resolve this error by using correct s
Ok, except that the NSE site seems to use ticker symbols.
On August 11, 2017, at 8:33 PM, "Frank H. Ellenberger"
wrote:
Hi David,
Am 12.08.2017 um 03:31 schrieb D via gnucash-user:
> Rs,
>
> I am not familiar with NSE India, but 125112 doesn't seem like a valid t
Peter,
It isn't entirely clear what you have done thus far to install Finance::Quote,
which is what Gnucash uses to retrieve quotes. Unfortunately, the help document
doesn't actually provide step by step instructions on installation (an
oversight, to be sure). However, the wiki has pretty detai
Peter,
Please use reply-all; keeping the conversation on the list ensures that you get
the best advice (especially since I am not an expert, but just another user
like you).
The output you included will likely be helpful. I see a lot of failures there,
but it seems like the first one mentions
Peter,
Good to hear!
Can you explain what it was about the instructions that was inaccurate? We can
see about fixing that.
David
On August 21, 2017, at 7:16 PM, Peter Ling wrote:
Thanks David,
I had trouble with the installation of Xcode as the instructions aren’t quite
accurate. I’ve go
On August 29, 2017, at 8:50 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>On 29 August 2017 at 16:36, james wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Background
>> So I've been running on gnucash 2.4.11 for some years.
>> it's been great, the only problems were my lack of
>> knowledge of finance. I want to migrate to version 2.6.15
Hylton,
On September 12, 2017, at 9:54 PM, "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)"
wrote:
>Dear John,
>On 10/09/2017 16:10, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Sep 10, 2017, at 1:26 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>
>>> I believe this unit trust account type needs further development wor
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