Re: [GNC] could not obtain lock on file maybe in use some wh

Adrien, Under most circumstances in this situation, I'd agree with you that the problem was an unsuccessful exit. However, Bob clearly notes that not only does he have troubles with the load, but also with saving and backup creation. That sounds very much like some sort of permissions problem. 

Re: [GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as

This is interesting. Let's say that at a later point, a transaction were added prior to one of these entries. How will this transaction help in a way that looking at the statements wouldn't? You see, one of the basic truisms of reconciliation is that your balance as of a given date will differ f

Re: [GNC] Font problem

Adrien, With regard to your assertion in #3, Paul's problem sounds entirely different from the page rendering problem that you reference (most recently at https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-October/087363.html). To me, "bullet holes" suggests some sort of corrupted font defin

[GNC] Dot Directories in Win10

Hello, I am using Gnucash 3.5 on Windows 10 (installed on a new Windows machine June 2019), and I notice a couple of dot directories placed in my user folder (C:\Users\sunfish): .cache and .dbus-keyrings The cache folder has a fontconfig folder with a couple of subfolders in it; the dbus fol

Re: [GNC] Just updated to MacOSX Catalina and GnuCash will not open.

I'm curious what you did that didn't work, as well as what you mean by "removed all references to earlier iterations." Would you elaborate? David On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 14:11, GJS wrote: On 22/10/2019 02:20, D wrote: > /Installation is covered in the wiki, and linked directly on > //ww

Re: [GNC] MacOS Catalina Gnucash 3.7 won't start

Chris, Any chance you have or had a second monitor on your system? On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:42, John Ralls wrote: Chris, Weird. With GnuCash (sort of) running, open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor. Find gnucash in the process list and select it. Click the gear icon at the left

[GNC] Problem with Saved Report

Hello, I am using GnuCash 3.5 on Windows 10. GnuCash 3.5 is the latest version I have ever used. I have a report that I customized and saved in an earlier version of GnuCash (I can't tell you the version, but I know that it is an earlier version). I can't be certain which base report I used,

Re: [GNC] Problem with Saved Report

7;2'. I'm not sure why anyone would alter the Account Depth setting lower, thus limiting the user's ability to manage this report. If anything, I'd argue this setting should be allowed to go even higher. David T. On 11/6/2019 10:14 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: Hello,

Re: [GNC] Find dialog not working

Comment three on three bug report includes instructions on fixing the problem by editing a line in the report file.  On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 15:08, mcmurchy1917techy via gnucash-user wrote: Thanks John I'll keep an eye on the bug report and test when a fix becomes available. Alex On 0

Re: [GNC] Will the reports file "saved-reports-2.8" recreate

David,  It's one file: saved-reports-2.8. You can easily parse the text that is contained in this file and isolate individual report customizations.  Cutting and pasting the complete content of one of these segments, you can port them around (although the changes in data files will render this

Re: [GNC] Budget Questions and Observations

Chris's, Bug 780717? On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 13:40, Christopher Lam wrote: First, what is your global Reverse Balanced preference (Edit / Preference / Accounts / Reversed Balance)? On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 07:07, Tommy Trussell wrote: > Does anyone use the Budget features in GnuCash? I

Re: [GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

Adrien, I included the link to the discussion in my previous reply. The wiki does not include the tab padding commands.  David T.  On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 6:20, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Bill, There was a long thread last fall (2018) about css. I think the title makes it appear to be d

Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs

If the setting were per book and user-configurable, then a user could choose to set each data file to use a different set of folders, by changing the file default from "logs" to "logs-file1" Does the Attachments functionality provide a blueprint for how this could work for backups and logs? It

Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs

Thanks. Don't know why I couldn't see that before. I guess the terminology didn't register in my  mind. On 4/29/2020 11:59 AM, David H wrote: David T., Preferences >> General >> Path Head for Transaction Association Files is probably the setting you're looking for :-) Cheers David H. On W

Re: [GNC] Porting the Tutorial & Concepts Guide to ReadTheDocs.org

Adrien, Given that the dev team has discussed documentation formats since at least 2013 (cf. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722016), I wouldn't expect a rapid transition to some other format just because someone comes up with a fancy new tool. David T. On 5/6/2020 11:15 AM, Adrie

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

Hello, Welcome to gnucash, if rather belatedly.  Your question is one that comes up at this time of the year, and can generate quite a bit of responses. You should definitely read the wiki page on this subject:  Closing Books - GnuCash | | | | || | | | | | Closing Boo

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

Apologies.  My mail program ate the link.  wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 13:46, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, Welcome to gnucash, if rather belatedly.  Your question is one that comes up at this time of the year, and can generate quite a bit of

[GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Truncates saved-reports-2.8

Hello, As the subject line notes, I am again encountering a crasher in GnuCash 3.3 on MacOS Mojave when I try to save a report configuration for a report whose settings have changed. Upon restart, I find that the saved reports have been trashed, and the saved-reports-2.8 file is truncated at a

[GNC] A DIFFERENT Crash!

Hello, Having just finished sending in my problem with reports crashing GnuCash, I encountered a completely new crash when I attempted to access the preferences while GnuCash was in fullscreen mode. GC3.3, MacOS Mojave. THIS crash at least left some crap behind (giving just the opening portion

Re: [GNC] A DIFFERENT Crash!

options. Both will cause this crash. I’ll note that this doesn’t address my longstanding troubles with the reports. David > On Dec 29, 2018, at 8:54 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Hello, > > Having just finished sending in my problem with reports crashing GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3

It looks like you have submitted the same message twice. You shouldn’t do that. Try taking a look at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796879 to see if the fixes mentioned there help out. David > On Dec 29, 2018, at 9:07 PM, Thomas Hill

Re: [GNC] A DIFFERENT Crash!

w, or a report’s options. > Both will cause this crash. > > I’ll note that this doesn’t address my longstanding troubles with the reports. > > David > >> On Dec 29, 2018, at 8:54 PM, David T. via gnucash-user >> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >&g

Re: [GNC] Fractional prices

I believe there's a preference for this. Have you set it? On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:47, Walt Mankowski wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 06:37:56AM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Jul 20, 2018, at 11:35 AM, David Jordan > > wrote: > > > > Hi. I have just downloaded v. 3.2. The price

Re: [GNC] Location of GnuCash data files

Been done.   https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1470507-configuration-option-for-backup-location On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 23:18, Stephen M. Butler wrote: On 12/31/18 9:29 AM, Stan Brown wrote: > Under "Uddating advice", I believe Finbar Mahon wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

Jon,  David C. makes one suggestion. I would ask whether the destination account is also denominated in the selected stock. If not, then gnucash will convert between different commodities (e.g., between shares of stock and USD). David T. On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 7:46, Jon Leech wrote: Davi

Re: [GNC] Adding an exchange to the list of exchanges

I am not at my computer to verify, but I understand that this field is a simple text field with a combo box drop down based on prior entries.  In other words, you can type your own entry into the field.  David T. On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 8:50, David Cousens wrote: Hi, GnuCash v 3.4. I am

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

What part of creating a transaction that moves shares from the old account to the new account does not work? It would seem to me that: Old account decrease 100 sharesNew account add shares Would work just fine.  David T. On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 14:34, Jon Leech wrote: David Cousens wrote:

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

Well, now that you have it mostly right, maybe go in to the second account register and see whether you can change the second split price to zero from there, using the same tabbing technique.  On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:23, Jon Leech wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 05:38:13PM +0530, D wro

Re: [GNC] restoration from backup not working

From within gnucash, use File->Open. Double clicking doesn't work on MacOS. On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:31, Eliot Rosenbloom wrote: Hey - I want to get rid of the entries I did today (1/2/19) and revert back to my last backup (12/20/18).  When I double click on gnu-P-4.gnucash.20181220083

Re: [GNC] Tracking Reimbursable Medical Expenses

Of course, one could implement an accounts receivable structure without using the business features. The user would create the appropriate accounts, and add transactions to document things manually.  On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 4:14, David Cousens wrote: Aaron, The Answer is yes but to use

Re: [GNC] Different jobs for vendor or customer?

Andrew, I hope Gnucash will give you years of accounting bliss... I can't answer the first question, since I do not use business features.  The second sounds like you're asking for something like Quicken's Classes, which is a common request that no one has implemented in Gnucash. Yet? Without cre

Re: [GNC] Copy a month's budget

I’ve said it before: I dislike bottom posting because I have to scroll through everything that has been written on the thread just to get to the single pithy comment that is new. This is especially annoying when attempting to read email on a small screen. I will admit that I prefer bottom postin

Re: [GNC] Australian Stock Quotes

Norman, While the “FinanceQuote Update” module might not have been changed since 2010, *Finance Quote* (which actually performs quote retrieval for GnuCash) most certainly has been updated numerous times since then. If you *run* “FinanceQuote Update,” it will … update Finance Quote for you. The

[GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

Hello, Long time user; MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.4. I have a saved report I use around this time of year (I call it “W-2 - David”) that shows me the total amounts assigned to a subset of my expense accounts (i.e., my tax expense accounts). The purpose of this report is to allow me to compare my G

Re: [GNC] Australian Stock Quotes

Norman, Glad to help. In the future, be sure to “Reply All” so that your message gets back to the list. That way, everyone gets to hear the denouement. David > On Jan 16, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Norman Jessup wrote: > > Thanks David, > > This is very helpful > > regards, > > Norman Jessup > >

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

t; before. > > Please file a bug, and screenshot a sample report, anonymised; please enable > 'General / Add options summary' to display options used. > > Also, https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795064 > > Thank you for finding these edge cases. > > C

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

Chris, I do note one issue with the new transaction report: it doesn’t seem to utilize the Sign Reverses option—at least, not that I can see. Cheers, David > On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:29 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Chris, > > Thank you for the lead. >

Re: [GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Truncates saved-reports-2.8

, David > On Dec 29, 2018, at 9:31 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Hi David, > > A very disturbing situation to be in. > > I think the first step is to narrow down the possible issues. > > Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 16:18:43 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-user: &

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

ounts for any specified period would always be $0 thanks to the accounting equation. Bank $100 -$50Income -$100 (subtotal negative)Expense $50Grand total $0 On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 00:34 David T. On Jan 16, 2019, at 7:29 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Chris, > > Th

Re: [GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Tr

table entry, (FAT, journal, etc.) I dunno. > > Unfortunately, I no longer remember the exact issues, but certainly, > correcting the text in the file in my cases, (I could load the entire file in > a text editor) restored access to my data and got the OS to report the real >

Re: [GNC] Tax Issues

This sounds like bug #796687, which had been discussed on gnucash-devel recently.  David On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:45, John Ralls wrote: > On Jan 16, 2019, at 2:40 PM, Mike stagl wrote: > > For what its worth, I updated to Gnucash 3.4 on both a Debian 9 machine and a > Windows 7 mach

Re: [GNC] Transaction Report Preference missing?

l strategy always adds the non-reversed amounts, which means the grand total for all accounts for any specified period would always be $0 thanks to the accounting equation. Bank $100 -$50Income -$100 (subtotal negative)Expense $50Grand total $0 On Thu., 17 Jan. 2019, 00:34 David T. On Jan 16, 2019, at

Re: [GNC] Tax Issues

Adrien, Your observations about the limiting aspects of the interface on this feature have been raised before; I will note that there is one exception to the single account tax option rule: you can designate an account and its children to the same tax option setting in one pass. This can be hel

Re: [GNC] Currency symbol (INR) not showing on Tax Invoice report

Not that I am an expert on these issues, but your observation suggests that the font that the Tax Invoice uses lacks a valid INR symbol. I believe there are style sheets for that report which can be used to change the font and remedy the problem (provided the newly-selected font has a Rupee symb

Re: [GNC] Import QIF error (from Android to Windows)

Did you try looking at the QIF file to see whether there were obvious problems? On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 14:12, michalbike wrote: There is no more any ideas? Developers of desktop GNU Cash don't know problem, developers od mobile version also. Users both apps also don't know problem. Ther

Re: [GNC] Importing QIF results into duplicate entry

Hi, Welcome to GnuCash. Getting your data into GnuCash always seems to be a challenge; many threads on the lists over the years attest to it. Given your particular problem—that is, your exported data is producing overlaps in the results—you might be advised to revisit the export piece and se

Re: [GNC] Profit & Loss Account

Is “Professional” a top-level account, or is it a subaccount to Expenses? > On Jan 20, 2019, at 7:14 PM, Robert C wrote: > > I am a newbie most things have worked except! Started an account for a new > busines and put in Professional:Legal Expenses. It shows up in Trial Balance > as an expemse b

Re: [GNC] Cash Account Question

Lorrie, John's suggestion will work.  Assuming of course that you spent this cash, then you create transactions of some sort that move this cash to some expense account. John's technique will work, although it doesn't provide any information about how you have spent the money.  I try occasionall

Re: [GNC] New Budget Data Date Range

Without specifics, I'd guess that your budget is set up for a four year period. The report time range is (I recall) based off the budget date range.  David On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:12, Lorrie Laskey wrote: Hi all, My new budget "Budget Report" is pulling transactions that go back 4 yea

Re: [GNC] Fwd: [gnucash-de] Reversed banlanced accounts setting does not work in reports

Sure! Since google isn't available in Germany,  https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-January/082029.html On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 18:20, Raimund Strehl wrote: Thank you. I haven't seen the thread. Could you maybe forward it. BR Raimund -Ursprungligt meddelande-

Re: [GNC] Saving entries and storing it on desktop

David,  I'm not convinced that the text on that page should be changed--and if it were, I'm not sure it would have helped.  David T. On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 16:17, David Cousens wrote: Adrien, This seems to come up fairly often. Any chance you could have a go at improving the instructio

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Documentation

Clearly, I am muddled. You are right that the accounts chapter precedes transactions, and that sequence will hold for the future, although the numbering will change.  As for a blueprint for the Guide, I am using bug 687820, which puts out a specific arrangement and configuration of chapters.  I

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

There is a lot to unpack here.  You say you started at the beginning of 2018 and entered "the closing balance for 2017."  Was that balance taken from a statement? Or just from the bank website as of that date?  I can't see how any of the various numbers (the numbers on the screen grab or provi

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

And I will add my comments as well... > On Jan 28, 2019, at 5:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Michael, > > I’ll cover these in-line: > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 4:56 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I have been contentedly using Gnucash since 2010, initially on Ubuntu but >> more recentl

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

Adrien, > On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I could be wrong, but I read “opening balance” to mean the balance when the > account was created in GnuCash, not the “starting balance” for the > reconciliation. Certainly, when you first create an account, you have to tel

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > >> >> It’s not clear whether “data files” is meant to refer to *your* data files, >> or *the application’s.* Adrien is right that you can easily load multiple >> versions of the application simply by naming one “Gnucash 2.6.19.a

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 7:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > David, > > I understand perfectly what you are saying. My point was I read the post to > be a confusion in terms. I understood the OP to mean ‘opening balance’ to > mean the opening balance transaction in the account, *not* the ’

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what t

Finbar, On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 16:54, Finbar Mahon wrote: 2. For this particular a/c the figure €3986.22 is the balance in the a/c, taken from the bank statement on 28.12.2017, after the last transaction on that date. That clarifies this issue.  You created a transaction in the amount of 3

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

Honestly, the decision is yours. I’ve been using GnuCash now for over 13 years. Back then, Derek Atkins was one of the primary developers, having taken over for another crew that had carried GnuCash from its early years as xaccountant. He stepped back, and several others stepped in. So, it’s b

Re: [GNC] Accounts and HSAs question

Mark, Did you see and read through the thread at  https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-May/077029.html That's the most recent (and succinct, IMHO) discussions on the topic.  There are others further back, I know.  David T. On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:11, Mark wrote: Hello,

Re: [GNC] Question about display of reports

And which report. > On Feb 3, 2019, at 9:42 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > Mark, you left out which version you are using. > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:08 PM Mark Stockwell via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Whenever I run a report from my version of Gnucash, f

Re: [GNC] Question about display of reports

Mark,  Your problem stems from the fact that your accounts are in (Canadian?) dollars, while your locale may be in pounds.  I am not versed in multi-currency situations. Maybe someone else can advise you on how to clear that up.  David On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 13:54, Mark Stockwell wrote:

Re: [GNC] Number Rounding

So, you're saying that your transaction reads $5.26 in all its splits, but the reconcile window is showing it as $5.30?  Are you sure you're looking at the same transaction, and not two similar transactions with different amounts? Is there something else about this transaction that is odd?  David

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the save process.  Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving? David T. On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 14:23, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 8 Feb 2019, at 0

Re: [GNC] Backup recovery

I don’t know. What is backblaze? Based on the info in the FAQ to which I referred, it appears that on Feb 8, 2019, you opened a backup copy of “GNU 5 Feb 2018”, which itself was made on March 5, 2018, made some changes, and saved from that backup. I don’t know your workflow or immediate purpose

Re: [GNC] Which report for date limited account transactions?

Rich, You have numerous options. If you’re going the Account Report method, first filter your account for the date range you want and then trigger the report. Otherwise, use the transaction report and select your account and date range there. Of course, you could use the Tax Options to set you

Re: [GNC] Saved reports have all dissapeared since upgrade to V3

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#In_GNC_DATA_HOME > On Feb 13, 2019, at 2:34 AM, Peter Gardner wrote: > > Hi all > > > > As subject line all of my save reports have gone since I upgraded from V2 to > V3. > > > > Any help? > > > > Peter > > > > --- > This email ha

Re: [GNC] Memorized Transaction List

Cutting parts to make things clearer... My phone mail client doesn't handle inline well, top posting. I imagine you *are* doing something wrong.  Everyone does. The "account picker" reference is to the difficulty in selecting the "Gas" subaccount when in the import process.  I am well aware of th

Re: [GNC] How-to question: CD Interest payments deposited in

Adrien (and Dale and David), Each of you correctly suggests a transaction from an income account to the checking account.   However, I suspect that underlying Art's question is the idea that this transaction will not have any connection to the original CD account. When he calls up the CD regist

Re: [GNC] How-to question: CD Interest payments deposited in

David, The income derived from that CD, so that's why I imagine he'd want the connection.  Moreover, I don't think it's unreasonable for someone with stock holdings to want to see the dividends associated with a given stock. Using income subaccounts for each security breaks down when you either

Re: [GNC] How-to question: CD Interest payments deposited in

This is correct.  I have, however, found it useful to create an income account for each entity that will send me a tax document (in the US, a 1099 of one or another ilk). Then, having set the accounts as tax-related, the Tax report shows me figures that match those separate 1099s. This makes ye

Re: [GNC] Accounting for gold coins

Gnucash by policy uses the ISO currency definitions, which precludes any additions or extensions. And yes, this had been discussed before. Workarounds have focused either on treating metals like any other commodity, as you have done here, or by loading your alternative (e.g., bitcoin) on an unu

Re: [GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealiz

IANAA, but as I understand it, gnucash doesn't track unrealized gains well mostly because traditional accounting isn't focused on unrealized gains. I'm told that accountants want to be certain that the *amount* of what you have is accurate. The value of that is less interesting. Honestly, the d

[GNC] Business Feature Question

Hello, Long time user with a question regarding the business features and grants. Specifically, I am setting up a business file for a business that receives grant monies from different organizations in exchange for various services. I’ve set up the granting agencies as customers in the books, a

Re: [GNC] Music Teacher: tracking balances owed from students

Adrien, Any chance you might add these tips to the Using Gnucash wiki page? "Simple business advice for managing invoices" or some such... Adding it at the business features spot might make most sense.  Cheers,David On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:36, Adrien Monteleone wrote: The short answer

Re: [GNC] MySQL

John, for MySQL, don't Mac users have to build Gnucash with the appropriate libdbd-mysql dependency added in? ISTR at some point that we needed to build gnucash ourselves to add this functionality.  Or am I misremembering? David T. On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:50, John Ralls wrote: > On M

Re: [GNC] Delete multiple transactions (was: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 192, Issue 7)

Of course, should the user wish to delete all records after a given date (or before) they could use the same filtering technique to create a view of the offending records and one by one delete them until the view is empty. This can happen pretty quickly, once the user tells gnucash to delete wit

Re: [GNC] MySQL

Thanks for clarifying. I'm probably also mixing some of this in with the whole Python on Macs issue. David On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:11, John Ralls wrote: David, For 2.6 yes. For 3.x everything is in the bundle for all three database backends just like Windows. Regards, John Ralls >

Re: [GNC] IRC access

I agree. It would be appropriate to have brief information related to gnucash on IRC, with pointers to official resources.  90% of the content in the current page should go. The introductory paragraph followed by the server, channel, and link to IRC download and help pages should be it.  David T

Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

A quick search online yielded:https://github.com/fefe982/gnucash-XML-split I can't vouch for the reliability of the program.  David On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:54, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 3/14/2019 2:46 PM, Jonathan Heard wrote: > Good Morning, > > I have been using GnuCash for a

Re: [GNC] GNUCash Documentation

Justin, As one who has worked on the docs before, I say welcome! My only change would be to wait longer—say a week—since many are busy with other life responsibilities. Is there a particular area that particularly irks you? David > On Mar 14, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Justin Haynes > wrote: > > I

Re: [GNC] Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?

GunCash’s use of the term “split” is quite specific, and defined in the Glossary of the Guide, as well as Chapter 4.1 Basics. Basic Concepts. David > On Mar 18, 2019, at 10:49 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 18 Mar 2019, at 16:36, Patrick wrote: >> >> That makes sense. Thank you for the ve

Re: [GNC] Still can't update price quotes

Glad you got it sorted. Out of curiosity, when you say one entry was "odd," what did you mean? Just a note: there is no ticker symbol APPL; the symbol for Apple is AAPL. So, if you tried actually with APPL, you naturally won't get results.  David On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:53, Elias K Gardn

Re: [GNC] End of year rollover

 Of course you can. Google "close books site:gnucash.org" and read up on the myriad opinions and issues that you might encounter.  On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 1:00, Philip Burg wrote: I would like to close my books at the end of my financial year but have access to the previous years files,

Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

I like the terminology “simple” versus “compound”, but I do not understand what is meant by a “ two-line simple transaction as a special case of a compound transaction.” David > On Mar 21, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op woensdag 20 maart 2019 12:35:40 CET schreef Michael He

Re: [GNC] Investment account import

Joseph, Each stock will have its own account. That's just how it works. Setup can be tedious, but it's not difficult once it's set up. I have many more commodity accounts than you (many of them closed out), and I do not find it troublesome.  David On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 20:10, Joseph Vern

Re: [GNC] Bills in Gnucash

Gustav, Welcome to gnucash. Although I am not an expert in using the business features, I believe that you can add your customers and suppliers to your existing account structure without disruption. The chapter on using business features in the Guide should help you out.  Best,David On Fr

Re: [GNC] Bills in Gnucash

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I just recently created a set of books for a business (my first attempt), and I had no need to "enable business features."  David On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:18, R. Victor Klassen wrote: Before you can do any of the below, you need to “enable busine

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions

Not mentioned previously is the fact that you can tell gnucash to move a scheduled transaction from a weekend day to the day prior or following, without manual intervention. That might help... David On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 9:26, Roger Oliver wrote: Good to know. At least I can stop look

Re: [GNC] Confused by report "Price Source" when recording bills in a foreign currency

Christian, While it may be, strictly speaking, unnecessary to create currency-specific expense accounts, it may yet be useful to do so. For example, if you maintain a bank account in one currency, and a second bank account in a different currency, you may wish to track ongoing expenses entirely

Re: [GNC] Confused by report "Price Source" when recording bills in a foreign currency

ISTR such a discussion as well; I also believe someone explained to me then why these reports are using the PriceDB at all. Now, I can’t recall what the explanation was, and I *still* don’t see why the Price DB is accessed to create a report for transactions in which the price has been already s

Re: [GNC] Bills in Gnucash

Oh.  Let me go to nabble to figure out that you're replying to my post... now, having closed all the spammy windows for super resume... Having the new account assistant create a specific set of accounts IN NO WAY is "enabling business features." It's just a bunch of accounts. The features are al

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

Adrien, I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had extraneous spaces in the Description field, and when I corrected that, the transactions de-reconciled. There were no warnings. I don’t believe I’ve ever set this option anywhere; how would a user locate the setti

Re: [GNC] is there a way to undo last months reconciliation

OK. Thanks for pointing that out. > On Apr 7, 2019, at 9:50 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:33, David T. via gnucash-user >> wrote: >> >> Adrien, >> >> I have seen how easy it is to have this happen; I had an import that had >

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

I’m not sure how it works on Windows, but on my Mac, when I attempt to open certain files in my Dropbox folder (I am using the DropBox add-in that maps my DropBox to a folder in my system), I see a huge character string in the title bar, with a long repeating sequence of “../“ This doesn’t dis

Re: [GNC] Fwd: report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

I'm pretty sure you should be able (even with your vintage Gnucash version) to create a transaction report with these settings.   Select the accounts you want, set the dates to "Start of previous year" and "End of previous year", leave primary sort alone, but change secondary sort to "Date" wit

Re: [GNC] report: group account activity by accounting period instead of by month

Indeed.  I read that backwards, and advised how to get monthly subtotals. If you are in the US, you might explore the Tax Options settings, which, when combined with the TXF report, can make tax reporting very easy.  David On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 8:25, John Ralls wrote: > On Apr 7, 2019,

Re: [GNC] US Bans Free tax Software

While it may be lamentable that the US government is headed down this path, if is not necessarily the same disaster... Since Gnucash is not tax software, and I am not a professional tax expert, I use Gnucash for tracking my finances (including using tax options extensively), and Turbotax to subm

Re: [GNC] two lines for every entry

Todd, I strongly suggest you read the Guide-- especially the chapters that cover double entry accounting and other basics.  David On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:45, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Hi All, On a credit card account, when ever I enter a charge and press enter, I get a s

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Price updating

You don’t tell us; are you using Yahoo! as your price source? Yahoo! dismembered its quote source website a while back, and GnuCash users have had to seek out other sources. One source is AlphaVantage, while another is “Yahoo! as JSON”. If you set up your accounts to use one of these (preferably

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