Re: [GNC] Reporting Woes - Newbie incompetence

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
pening the HTML file directly in Excel. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
Sigh. You're right, of course. I've never filed a bug report before, so I was hoping someone else would do it for me. But I'll figure it out -- it's the least I can do in return for all the benefits I receive from using GnuCash. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMat

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
"Documentation" doesn't seem to be an option, so I used "General" -- as others have done, apparently. Bug report <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798798> now entered. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-24 12:46, Adrien M

Re: [GNC] Error in "Close Book" help text

2023-03-24 Thread Stan Brown
ss I don't think there was any way for me to know that up front. All of that said, I got a notice that John Ralls had changed the bug from General to Documentation. And he also emailed me to say that he was going to fix up the Wiki page to avoid this problem for the future. Stan Brown Tehachapi, C

Re: [GNC] Modify Balance Sheet report in 4.13?

2023-03-26 Thread Stan Brown
Thanks for this, Adrien. As I look further into it, there are some other changes I'll need to make too, so I think exporting to Excel and then editing the HTML may be easier overall. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-24 12:52, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I d

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.0 Released

2023-03-27 Thread Stan Brown
A hearty thank-you to John and the other developers for giving so generously of their time and expertise! The new features are very attractive, and I think it's time for me to stop stalling and start upgrading. (Yes, I know to do it in stages by major release.) Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA

Re: [GNC] Company plan for stocks and stock options

2023-04-04 Thread Stan Brown
requirements for how you may need to account for all of this. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Find not working in Gnucash for Windows 5.0

2023-04-05 Thread Stan Brown
ther than just one, you need to start your Find while the Accounts window (lost of accounts) is on top. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-07 Thread Stan Brown
rien says, you may need to set the appropriate "closing" string in Report Options to make this happen. The documentation bug is number 798798. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-07 Thread Stan Brown
of your current file on the GnuCash command line (which is probably inside a shortcut if you're running Windows), and when GC starts it will open that file regardless of which file you were working on last. (In MacOS, the file on the command line is ignored.) -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-07 Thread Stan Brown
7;s faster than pulling a report, at least for me. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [GNC] Mea Culpa

2023-04-08 Thread Stan Brown
t All' > accounts then 'Apply', the reports- P&L, TB and BS all reported correctly. > This is most pleasing, as I am definitely a 'Close the books and draw a > line under them' person, and it was a 'mind splinter' not to have > everything zero

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

2023-04-08 Thread Stan Brown
a new transaction report, but I can't see any > add column button, customize report or computation options. > > Am I missing something, or is AI as stupid as me? (Win 10, Gnucash 5.0) AI lives up to its adjective, but not so well to its noun. A recent story detail

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

2023-04-08 Thread Stan Brown
Thunderbird autosaves drafts, and they do not disappear automatically from the Drafts folder after you send the message. You have to delete them manually. (It's bad design, I agree, because it leads to confusion. But there it is: we get what we pay for.) Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA

Re: [GNC] How to run Year End Procedures for the Tax Year (UK end 5 April 2023), and start new Data set for the New Tax Year starting 6 April 2023

2023-04-08 Thread Stan Brown
> On 4/7/23 9:21 PM, Stan Brown wrote: >> I close my books each year so that the balances in my income and >> expense accounts will be totals for the current year only. If I had >> to redo prior-year reports or some reason it would be slightly >> awkward; but that'

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-09 Thread Stan Brown
will save time for them and reduce duplicate reports to the developers. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnu

Re: [GNC] Registering Off Balance Sheet in GNUCash

2023-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
ons will be unbalanced. So _those_ accounts will need to be excluded from your profit and loss reports. Something that would make this easier is to create a top-level account called Contingencies, with contingent assets, liabilities, income, and expense under it. That will make it easier to exclude the

Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

2023-04-11 Thread Stan Brown
hing that might help the OP, at least in Windows, is never to sue the Close button but instead close a tab (when desired) with Ctrl+W and close the program (if desired) with Alt+F4. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-04-11 11:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I'v

Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

2023-04-12 Thread Stan Brown
nge it to 'Quit GnuCash' I would not support the latter. There's already a _standard_ mouse click to quit GnuCash; it's the X at the top right of the window, which is standard for programs in Microsoft Windows. We don't need to waste screen real estate on a second button to

Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

2023-04-12 Thread Stan Brown
On 2023-04-12 10:38, Robert Heller wrote: > I don't know about either MacOSX or MS-Windows, but there is a "Quit" item on > the File menu that does in fact quit the program. Yes, it's there in Windows. (Really it should be Exit, not Quit, but that's a minor point.)

Re: [GNC] set up Gnucash on a new device

2023-04-18 Thread Stan Brown
inexpensive Gateway convertible > that I picked up to take with me when I am on the road. It will only > accept programs that are approved by Microsoft. So if it isn't in the > store you cannot load it on your system. <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of

[GNC] Please don't double post

2023-04-18 Thread Stan Brown
ing doesn't cut that time down. There's a lot of traffic on this list, and the double posts just make it that much harder for recipients to manage. Thanks in advance for your consideration! -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com __

Re: [GNC] Reading a 2.6. GnuCash file (compressed XML) with 4.8?

2023-04-20 Thread Stan Brown
on, then to 4.x. After each upgrade, you should open the file and click Actions » Check and Repair » All Transactions. By the way, 4.x is no longer current; we're now in 5.x. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-use

Re: [GNC] Search and Replace

2023-04-29 Thread Stan Brown
n unfinished transaction. By experiment I found that Cancel Transaction doesn't do anything on a transaction that has been committed with the Enter key. Is that the only difference between Cancel and Delete, or are there others? Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA http

Re: [GNC] Transactions in Placeholder

2023-04-29 Thread Stan Brown
ring the user to confirm the operation_ (or to remove the write protection status, of course). That two-step operation is protection against a careless keypress wreaking havoc. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing l

Re: [GNC] surprising glob() result on Windows

2023-05-01 Thread Stan Brown
On 2023-04-30 20:58, Enan Ajmain wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:37:19 -0700 > Stan Brown wrote: >> Some time after that, I'm not sure when but certainly by the release of >> Windows 10, it became possible to disable SFNs for any particular disk >> partition. And so

Re: [GNC] surprising glob() result on Windows

2023-05-01 Thread Stan Brown
My apologies -- this was intended for a different mailing list. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-05-01 05:46, Stan Brown wrote: > On 2023-04-30 20:58, Enan Ajmain wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:37:19 -0700 >> Stan Brown wrote: >>> Some time

Re: [GNC] How do I reply to a topic?

2023-05-02 Thread Stan Brown
derbird threads messages). If you want to switch your preference to non-digest, follow the directions at the bottom of every email. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your sub

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-07 Thread Stan Brown
r holds this transaction. Others have commented on this > in the past. Has an enhancement request been submitted about this? It's an ongoing annoyance, and I can't understand why GC requires me to guess which of half a dozen pen registers contains the incomplete transaction. Stan Brown

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-08 Thread Stan Brown
That seems to cover it. I'm disappointed that the bug was posted six years ago and still hasn't been addressed. I know that the developers are far from idle, but to me it just seems so basic that you don't tell the user "There's a problem, now try to guess where it is.&q

Re: [GNC] Issue with Current Assets?

2023-05-15 Thread Stan Brown
the report along with all of the older subaccounts. There was a fairly active thread about this some months ago. While people understood the issue, as I recall no one could think of a solution that wouldn't create other problems. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA,

Re: [GNC] Account Summary Report Question

2023-05-19 Thread Stan Brown
he same options. After setting it up as you want it, use Saved Report Configurations. Find information about that in the documentation. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] balance of interests between users and developers

2023-05-20 Thread Stan Brown
or Windows. While not _completely_ trivial, it's quite easy to set up Windows 10 without a license or a Microsoft account on a virtual machine. YouTube videos guide you through the process. And of course setting up Linux doesn't raise license issues in the first place. Stan

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-05-31 Thread Stan Brown
7;s words since Paypal is a separate entity and takes its cut before we get the rest, but even so I think this is appropriate because then the P&L shows donations net of Paypal fees, which after all is the amount that we actually collect. In your case, where you _do_ control both sides, I think it

Re: [GNC] Dealing with discounts when not using Business Features

2023-06-01 Thread Stan Brown
But even if formally restricted, I believe it's not a liability but a _contingent_ liability. It only becomes a liability if the organization makes a decision not to use it in that way, or if a deadline runs out. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-06-01 11:06, Micha

[GNC] Accounts Panel UI? (was Gnucash 5.1 Ledger Issues)

2023-06-02 Thread Stan Brown
dious. Is there an easy way to expand the accounts list to the bottom level in one go? (To be clear, I'm not talking about opening the registers for one account and its children; I want to know how to un-collapse the chart of accounts completely.) Thanks! -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA,

Re: [GNC] Invalid transactions

2023-06-04 Thread Stan Brown
dows, and I think in Linux, you can put the desired filename on the command line when opening GC, and it will be opened rather than the most recently used file. That doesn't work in MacOS, unfortunately, according to what Mac users have posted. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath

Re: [GNC] quandary with proper entries for cost-of-goods-sold and inventory

2023-06-17 Thread Stan Brown
uCash question. I'm not an accountant, and even if I were you didn't tell us which jurisdiction you're in, which can have a large impact on the correct answer. What would you have done in the old pen-and-ink-in-tall-leather-bound-ledgers era? That is just what you should do in GnuCa

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 243, Issue 24

2023-06-17 Thread Stan Brown
I suspect you'll need to give some more details to get a useful response. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-06-17 14:19, Bill Swanson wrote: > The number of shares for some of the mutual funds does not show up on the > Account Totals. I am u

[GNC] Starting a new topic in the mailing list

2023-06-17 Thread Stan Brown
Re-sending because I failed to observe best practice in subject lines myself. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-06-17 15:37, Stan Brown wrote: > Bill, > > Please don't reply to a digest without doing proper editing. > > In your case, unless I m

Re: [GNC] automatically account for gst on random purchases

2023-06-18 Thread Stan Brown
m undetected. That's particularly bad in tax matters! Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-06-18 08:26, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 6/17/2023 10:06 PM, Karl May wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> For my business setup I am wondering whether there is a way t

Re: [GNC] Merging Two Accounts

2023-06-18 Thread Stan Brown
list have in common that makes them different from other accounts? Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash

Re: [GNC] automatically account for gst on random purchases

2023-06-18 Thread Stan Brown
ounty rate. In either case, the dealer's location is irrelevant.) Granted, that's unusual. But as you know, it takes the same amount of programming effort to handle a given special case whether it occurs frequently or once in a blue moon. Stan Brown Teha

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.2 Released

2023-06-25 Thread Stan Brown
ike it was a lot of work, but I think it will greatly improve the usability of GC 5. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://li

[GNC] Advice before posting a problem (was: Problem saving data file in GNUcash 5.2)

2023-06-26 Thread Stan Brown
n about what to do +1 Thank you, Michael. You said what I was thinking, but phrased it better. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Backup

2023-06-28 Thread Stan Brown
. P.S. You mentioned a "backup" by Libre Office. All that does is copy your documents somewhere in a folder below AppData. For the usefulness of this, see "if your computer crashes", two paragraphs up. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _

Re: [GNC] Can not resize GnuCash Preferences window

2023-06-29 Thread Stan Brown
ems". You may find that changing that setting makes your 1920×1080 display readable. (Already-open windows may or may not resize themselves, but any new windows should display in the desired scale.) In other versions of Windows the same setting exists, but you may have to get to it in a diff

Re: [GNC] Maintain two accounts in same machine

2023-07-01 Thread Stan Brown
and be careful to access one GnuCash file only from user login A, and the other GnuCash file only from user login B. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] How to revert to previous input mode?

2023-07-01 Thread Stan Brown
Vincent, Thanks both for the explanation (which opened my eyes too), and for volunteering to get it into the Wiki. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-07-01 10:17, Vincent Dawans wrote: > Pierre: > > Your description and Gyle's pointed answer are quite eye

Re: [GNC] Default to Plain English instead of Debit and Credit

2023-07-01 Thread Stan Brown
of "debit" and "credit" -- it's really not that hard, and at least it's unambiguous. But ultimately it's each person's choice of what they feel comfortable with. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___

Re: [GNC] Report Options

2023-07-09 Thread Stan Brown
Later, to recall the report with the saved options, click Report » Saved Report Configurations, then click the pay button on our desired report. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Equity Account "problem"

2023-07-11 Thread Stan Brown
Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-07-11 15:48, Default User wrote: > Is there a way to have Gnucash 4.13 (Debian GNU/Linux 12 Bookworm) > automatically calculate, and update "Equity" in the main accounts tab, > to show the "real" val

Re: [GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

2023-07-12 Thread Stan Brown
error, and then you'll have a bigger mess. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/

Re: [GNC] Equity Account "problem"

2023-07-12 Thread Stan Brown
reat weariness, and of writing books there is no > end". "There is no royal road to learning." --Euclid, addressing one of the Ptolemies Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mail

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-14 Thread Stan Brown
mailing list footer -- the mailserver is not smart enough to sense that, so you end up with multiple copies of the footer in the message you compose. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-14 Thread Stan Brown
before making one's response. To me it seems like basic courtesy for the writer to consider the convenience of the readers, who outnumber the writer manyfold. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-15 Thread Stan Brown
IRS regulations have determined that a payment is made, legally, in the tax year when the check is written and sent, regardless of how long it takes the payee to cash it. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-15 Thread Stan Brown
as a Windows installer is supposed to do. The user doesn't have to do any sort of setup. I speak from experience on Windows 7, 8.1, 10,and 11 with GC. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gn

Re: [GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

2023-07-15 Thread Stan Brown
ime to trim is more valuable than the combined time of all the people who will receive this message and have to hunt for the relevant bits." Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] installing Gnucash

2023-07-15 Thread Stan Brown
and then press Ctrl+J -- nearly every browser these days honors that as a shortcut to downloads. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscrib

Re: [GNC] Should GNUCash allow a split to reference the same account twice

2023-07-20 Thread Stan Brown
e other groceries didn't cost $100, but I use that number to make the transaction clearer for this note.) BTW, a split _does_ reference only one account. I think you meant to say "a transaction" rather than "a split" in your subject

Re: [GNC] Should GNUCash allow a split to reference the same account twice

2023-07-21 Thread Stan Brown
t the store when the charge to my credit card was reversed, I chose not to write up the purchase and un-purchase as two transactions. Instead I entered one transaction with two splits, one crediting AP CapitalOne Visa and the other debiting it. Stan Brown Tehachapi,

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-22 Thread Stan Brown
hand intended for making small purchases). Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/g

Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Stan Brown
eally seems to me that you are making this much, much harder than it needs to be. But I don't know the magic words that will make the actual simplicity shine through. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

2023-07-31 Thread Stan Brown
Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com TL;DR version: I suggest contacting treasurers of other community projects for best practices. (Longer version below.) On 2023-07-31 09:43, gibel...@gmx.net wrote, in part: > > Obviously my basic question was latently wrongly formulat

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Format Good?

2019-09-16 Thread Stan Brown
liability and is thus a debit as far as you are concerned. Thus debits and credits balance not only within one set of books but between the books of different entities! -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___

Re: [GNC] Yahoo blocking GnuCash Email

2019-09-24 Thread Stan Brown
And of course Usenet newsgroups are a way around all of these difficulties. They also provide MUCH better thread tracking than any email client I've seen. I don't know why Usenet was allowed to either on the vine. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMat

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Stan Brown
you get "unable to obtain the lock" because GnuCash is unable to create the .lck file -- again pointing to permissions problem in that directory or folder. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2019-09-25 12:48, Sadhna True

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Stan Brown
Well, you haven't told us which OS you're using, so that makes it kind of hard to advise you on details of setting permissions. P.S. It's not necessary to reply twice. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2

Re: [GNC] Relocating user specific application data to another directory

2019-09-28 Thread Stan Brown
xt time he opens GC it will automatically open the file for him. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Printing checks to a pdf file

2019-10-07 Thread Stan Brown
itial dialog. (1) http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefer

Re: [GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

2019-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
've settled for creating the invoices > as duplicates but "fixing" b) by also creating journal entries in > "Opening Balances" that cancel the entries in the Income:Sales > > Provided I do that before the begining of my f

Re: [GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

2019-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
ount dialog displayed an opening balance but wouldn't let me correct it. So I ended up making all my opening balance transactions myself, through General Ledger or one of the account registers. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://Oa

Re: [GNC] How to set a customer "opening balance" for the Customer Report

2019-10-16 Thread Stan Brown
a usability bug. > > Regards, > Adrien > > >> On Oct 16, 2019 w42d289, at 1:27 PM, Stan Brown >> wrote: >> >> On 2019-10-16 12:10, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>> Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve done it >>> m

Re: [GNC] Why I create a new datafile each year for GnuCash

2019-10-21 Thread Stan Brown
4 so that none of last year's transactions can be altered, when you open your GC file tomorrow it will allow alterations of Jan. 1 this year; the next day Jan. 1 and 2; and so on. That rather odd design choice is in 2.6.x; I don't know whether it's in 3.x. -- Regard

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-16 Thread Stan Brown
nux GC will do this automatically when you reopen a data file after the "could not obtain the lock" message.) -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2019-11-16 20:27, David Cousens wrote: > Kay > > If GnuCash i

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
I think David Carlson's suggestion is better than mine. I had hoped to spark a discussion on this point, so I didn't expect my version would be the final one. I'm delighted that it is being looked at, and benefit to users will result. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New

Re: [GNC] Locked out of gnucash

2019-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
uot;currently". That gives us "GnuCash thinks that the data file is in use. If you're sure that neither you nor anyone else currently has it open, select Open Anyway. Otherwise, choose one of the other options." While it is nice to explain why a thing happened, most users re

Re: [GNC] Non-cash charity contributions

2019-11-24 Thread Stan Brown
cord them as negative expenses — if you donate, say, > food, record them against your expense account for food. This ... > seems reasonable to me because the sum of your expense account will > then more closely track the amount of food you purchas

Re: [GNC] Non-cash charity contributions

2019-11-24 Thread Stan Brown
something "to a poor person" is not a charitable donation under US law: the IRS Web page I already cited says that gifts to individuals are not deductible donations. Giving that same can of tomatoes to a soup kitchen or similar _is_ a charitable donation. Or more specifically, it is if the s

Re: [GNC] How to record personal owe to me and how to record equity?

2019-12-07 Thread Stan Brown
count) You don't make any transaction directly intro an equity account. But if you run a Balance Sheet, that interest expense will reduce your Retained Earnings, which is an equity account that GnuCash creates automatically as part of that report. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York,

[GNC] Possible bug (Re: subaccounts tabs vs windows)

2020-01-02 Thread Stan Brown
expected. 4. In Preferences » Windows, changed tab position to Left. GC crashed. I suspect it was changing tab position when one tab was in a separate window that caused the problem. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 20

Re: [GNC] Possible bug (Re: subaccounts tabs vs windows)

2020-01-02 Thread Stan Brown
t; it here: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797550 Great -- thanks, Adrien! -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Difficulty in migrating Gnucash to second computer

2020-01-05 Thread Stan Brown
Windows 7, and as I mouse over the files in the recent file list the status bar remains blank. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Difficulty in migrating Gnucash to second computer

2020-01-12 Thread Stan Brown
e list lives in the registry, I've removed all the orphan entries and renumbered the remaining ones, and now my file list in the GC menu is cleaned up. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com _

Re: [GNC] accounts setup (how to duplicate same payment in two expense accounts)

2020-01-28 Thread Stan Brown
ly over-complicated, especially given that the amount of money spent on gasoline during vacation is probably a small part of the expense of the vacation and probably a small part of the annual expense of gasoline. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New Y

Re: [GNC] Accounting FOr Beneficiary Income

2020-01-31 Thread Stan Brown
gt; but I did not make the original expense to be refunded for Debit to Assets:Cash (or bank account) Credit to Equity:Inheritance(s), or whatever account you credited for the amount of your mother's IRA Unless your mother's estate is large enough that you need to be concerned with Fe

Re: [GNC] Accounting FOr Beneficiary Income

2020-02-01 Thread Stan Brown
ns than programming questions. I'm no financial adviser or tax adviser, but I've done a fair amount of research matching my own personal situation, and yours had something in common. BTW, it's very nice that your mother had listed a beneficiary on her account. Mine did not, so while it

Re: [GNC] Credit Card bill autopay

2020-02-18 Thread Stan Brown
possible caveat: I don't use the reconciliation feature, so I don't know if this technique would cause problems for people who do reconcile. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2020-02-18 11:40, Derek Atkins wro

Re: [GNC] Fastest ways to enter my transactions into GnuCash ?

2020-02-28 Thread Stan Brown
s a one setting that affects two things: display in a transaction and display in the account picker. I don't have enough screen space to show the entire account hierarchy in a transaction, but I do want it in the account picker. I'm still using 2.6.18, so maybe this has been improved in later

Re: [GNC] New User - Unique Transaction Number & Dates

2020-03-02 Thread Stan Brown
, say, to prevent yourself from accidentally changing something in last year's transactions, or accidentally entering a new transaction with last year's date, you have to change the red-line every single day that you use GnuCash. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New

Re: [GNC] PayCheck, 401k, Accounts Setup Help

2020-03-29 Thread Stan Brown
're using them) end up at zero. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2020-03-29 07:12, Jimmy Lee wrote: > I'm new to GnuCash, coming over from Mint.  Does anyone have a tutorial, > preferably graphical, to show how to ente

Re: [GNC] Copy Scheduled Transaction

2020-04-06 Thread Stan Brown
Or is there a way to override GnuCash's reordering and specify a desired order for the splits in one transaction? -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Open two files at once

2020-04-25 Thread Stan Brown
splay name, such as File1. 4. Repeat steps 1-3 for File2. You can now double-click either shortcut, or both of them, to work with one or both files at a time. With a file name in the command line of the shortcut, that instance of GC opens that file rather than the most recent file. --

Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs

2020-04-26 Thread Stan Brown
re our developers do. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2020-04-25 21:01, D. via gnucash-user wrote: > Unfortunately, no. This is a long standing feature request. See: > > https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/sugg

Re: [GNC] Gnucash logs

2020-04-26 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-04-26 07:46, Maf. King wrote: > On Sunday, 26 April 2020 15:38:41 BST Stan Brown wrote: >> And I would urge strongly that the setting should default to the normal >> location for temp files, not to the same location as the data file. >> Again, I'm think

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.902 released

2020-04-28 Thread Stan Brown
> • Windows: 8.1 Out of curiosity, John, what went into the decision that GC 4.0 would not work in Windows 7 and Windows 8? Or is this just a case of "not supported", as in "it might work, but we make no guarantees and we won't entertain bug reports"? -- Regar

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

2020-05-07 Thread Stan Brown
at they want to work on, without necessarily basing that choice on what will benefit the greatest number of users. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash

Re: [GNC] Default View: Tip

2020-06-10 Thread Stan Brown
Can I suggest some indication of why one might want to use the Notes field? Until this thread I didn't even know it existed. (And I'm still on 2.6.19 also. I figure I'll upgrade directly to 4.0.) -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSyste

Re: [GNC] Default View: Tip

2020-06-11 Thread Stan Brown
y one I looked at contained the word Note, but I couldn't find any occurrences of Notes. -- Regards, Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com https://OakRoadSystems.com On 2020-06-10 21:59, David Carlson wrote: > Since I use the notes field in almost every transaction, I canno

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