Re: [GNC] Date column width

2022-05-12 Thread William Prescott
The solution I have found helpful is to look at the date in the lower left corner of the window. When the cursor is in a date field the current value of the date is shown in full at the bottom left. And it updates if you use plus or minus keys to change the date. Will On 2022 May 12, at 05-12

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.11 Releas

2022-06-26 Thread William Prescott
My thanks to all the developers. I updated today (MacOS version on M1 Max). It runs fine. Will On 2022 Jun 26, at 06-26 16:39:12, John Ralls wrote: The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.11, the twelfth release in the stable 4.x series Between 4.10 and 4.11, the following bugfixes

Re: [GNC] Blue line in checking account register window

2022-07-09 Thread William Prescott
I don't see the any image in your post, but the behavior you describe sounds like what happens when you have transactions with a future date. They appear below a blue line. Will On 2022 Jul 9, at 07-09 14:33:05, Barry G. Hall wrote: I am running GnuCash 4.6 on a 2011 iMac running OSX 10.14.6

Re: [GNC] Stumped on Mortgage Asst - Screenshots

2022-08-02 Thread William Prescott
A slight variation on Steve's suggestion. I made the mortgage payments a 'Scheduled Transaction' with some nominal values for principal and interest payments. Then, they were created automatically, and I just edited them to get the amounts correct. Will On 2022 Aug 2, at 08-02 02:55:33, David

Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

2022-08-06 Thread William Prescott
Eric, Both of those situations should be easy to deal with. I have three Gnucash files, one personal and two for organizations. Gnucash opens with the last one I used. I can switch to one of the others from the items listed at the bottom of the File menu. All transactions can have any number

Re: [GNC] Moving to a new computer

2022-09-19 Thread William Prescott
Just a small clarification. It depends on what you do when you boot up a new Mac for the first time. It will give you an option to clone it from a previous computer or backup. If you do that the new computer will look almost exactly like the old one, including all of the applications as well as

Re: [GNC] Enhancement request: multi-currency accounts

2022-10-18 Thread William Prescott
I have a somewhat more chaotic organization. Almost all my income is in USD and almost all my expenses are MXN. I have a top level Expense account for Pesos and another for Dollars with lots of subaccounts under them. I have multiple bank accounts in both currencies and quite often have transac

Re: [GNC] Enhancement request: multi-currency accounts

2022-10-20 Thread William Prescott
Whatever works for you is fine. I would find that strange. I have income and expenses in two currencies pretty much all the time. I live in one country and still have property in another. I keep track of everything in the currency that it occurred in. Conversions occur if I am traveling in a thi

Re: [GNC] Gnucash on MacOS 12.5 ?

2022-10-23 Thread William Prescott
I run Gnucash 4.12-1 on a MacBook Pro M1 Max, Monterey 12.6 with no problems. On 2022 Oct 23, at 10-23 12:41:43, Jesse Ayers wrote: I have been using GnuCash on Mac for several years. I have purchased a new MacBook that runs MacOS 12.5 “Monterey.” Can someone tell me if Gnucash will run on t

Re: [GNC] Gnucash on macOS Ventura

2022-11-14 Thread William Prescott
Christian, Are your running 4-12.1 or 4-12.2 I am running 4-12.1 (Build ID: 4.12+(2022-09-24)) on MacOS Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400) with no problems. I have 4-12.2 installed as well but I haven't switched to it. Will On Nov 14, 2022, at 17:56, R Losey wrote: Thanks for that update. I think I'

Re: [GNC] Gnucash on macOS Ventura

2022-11-14 Thread William Prescott
John, You are correct. I set up a folder for 4.12-2 but it is empty. I just assumed I had a new release there. My mistake. Will On Nov 14, 2022, at 21:35, john wrote: > On Nov 14, 2022, at 4:07 PM, William Prescott wrote: > > I have 4-12.2 installed as wel That's inter

Re: [GNC] can't create a transaction report

2022-11-28 Thread William Prescott
While I agree that 4.01, 4.02, ... 4.10, 4.11, 4.12 would be more rational, in fact it is traditional or at least extremely common in version numbering to use: 4.1, 4.2,... 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12 etc. In fact, 4.01 would have different implications about the nature of the release than 4.1. 4.01

Re: [GNC] Net Worth Barchart

2022-12-05 Thread William Prescott
I'm no accountant, but it looks to me like your liabilities are all negative. When you subtract negative liabilities from assets, the net worth is greater. A = 10 L = -1 NW = 10 - (-1) = 11 Will On Dec 5, 2022, at 22:22, Liz wrote: Gnucash Version: 4.12 Build ID: 4.12+(2022-09-24) Here is a

Re: [GNC] Debug information to sort out Finance::Quote issue on macOS Ventura

2022-12-16 Thread William Prescott
Ventura runs on lots of Intel (pre M1/M2) Macs. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213264 Will On Dec 16, 2022, at 13:18, R Losey wrote: I'm pretty sure that Ventura does not work on Intel Macs... I suspect that Vincent has an M1 or M2 Mac. ___ gn

Re: [GNC] Do I need to set up multiple bank accounts for different currencies?

2022-12-22 Thread William Prescott
I am neither an accountant nor particularly expert at GnuCash, though I've used it for a dozen years or so. But if I understand what you are saying it sounds crazy to me. I have several bank accounts in USD and several in MXN. I have one account in Gnucash for each bank account and the currency

Re: [GNC] Improvement suggestion

2022-12-22 Thread William Prescott
I agree. I have three backup systems for my computer: • I have an external disk attached to it and set up MacOS Time Machine to backup to that disk. • I pay a cloud company to backup my computer (Currently CrashPlan/Code42 but I have thought about switching to BackBlaze). • And I use SuperDuper

Re: [GNC] What determines the order of transaction is CSV file?

2022-12-23 Thread William Prescott
It would be pretty simple to add a column next to the date. Then put a formula in the new column that made it equal to the date in the adjacent column if there was one, and to the date in the preceding line if it was blank. Then sort on the new column. Will On Dec 23, 2022, at 16:26, Dr. David

Re: [GNC] Gnucash on macOS Ventura

2022-12-23 Thread William Prescott
For what it's worth ... I just started running the latest version GnuCash 4.13-1 on Ventura 13.1. No real issues. I did have one momentary apparent glitch where it would not let me scroll the drop down list of accounts when trying to assign a transaction line to an account. But I just accepted

Re: [GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

2022-12-26 Thread William Prescott
Your post puzzles me. > I am trying to enter some transactions from March. Every now and again I > forget to change the date on something, so I get today’s date. Then I have > to go back to a backup file. Why? Can't you just edit the date on the transaction and change it. > It would be nice wh

Re: [GNC] Changing registers in the middle of entering or editing a transaction

2022-12-27 Thread William Prescott
> >> Let me guess: you looked in the other register before you had committed >> the transaction. > > > Yes, you are probably right > That highlights a point about Gnucash function that I find annoying. It will let you switch registers in the middle of editing a transaction, leaving the chang

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2022-12-30 Thread William Prescott
I've been using it for 10+ years. My file is just over 1 MegaByte. It looks like it autosaves every 5 minutes and keeps the backups for one month. These are probably the default values. I don't remember ever changing them. My current Gnucash folder has 177 MB in it and 135 of that is an old arch

Re: [GNC] Register column sizing

2023-01-06 Thread William Prescott
Another vote in favor of this change to the column width handling, Best wishes, Will On Jan 6, 2023, at 08:45, Matthew Forbis via gnucash-user wrote: I'm fully in agreement of making the description column behave like all the others. Matt On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 09:41:58 PM CST, j

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-10 Thread William Prescott
For general information... I installed Gnucash 4.900 from the .dmg file on MacOS Ventura 13.1. I created a new file for a project that is starting fresh this year. I haven't done much more with it yet than created accounts in two currencies with a starting balance in one of them. No issues have

Re: [GNC] Splitting an imported transaction?

2023-02-04 Thread William Prescott
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why you are bothering to do an import if there are only two transactions once every three months. Wouldn't it be easier to just enter them by hand the way you want On Feb 4, 2023, at 09:23, Simon Roberts wrote: Hi all, I use a third party or

Re: [GNC] Migrating from PC to Mac

2023-02-16 Thread William Prescott
To see iCloud files on a Mac: Click on the iCloud drive in the Sidebar of a Finder window. If it is not there, do the following: Go to the Finder Open Finder settings Click on the Sidebar tab Check the box for iCloud Drive Close the settings window Click on the iCloud Drive that now appears in the

Re: [GNC] Using Plaid

2023-02-23 Thread William Prescott
After reading this discussion about Plaid, I discovered an email from my bank from about 6 months ago notifying me that Plaid had access to my bank account. I am not aware that I am using Plaid for anything. Is it used in the background by Bank Mobil Apps? That is the only thing I can think of t

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

2023-03-07 Thread William Prescott
I don't speak for the development team either. But the sequence x.1, x.2, ... x.9, x.10, x.11 etc seems to be standard practice in numbering versions. I actually don't like it much. x.01, x.02, ... x.09, x.10, x.11 would be cleaner and sort correctly but that is not the world we live in. Will

Re: [GNC] Accounting for GST in Australia

2021-07-07 Thread William Prescott
At one time I lived in Boulder County, Colorado. The city limit ran along the street at the side of my house. Across the street was a city park. Colorado sales tax is 2.9% Boulder County 0.99% City of Boulder 3.86% Transit District 1% Scientific and Cultural 0.1% If I bought things in a store in

Re: [GNC] Mac OS Scrolling Speed

2021-07-21 Thread William Prescott
I would add comment about scrolling (GnuCash 4.6 on Mac OS 11.4). I think part of the problem, maybe all of it, is that GnuCash does not scroll smoothly. Rather it moves in jumps of one transaction. It seems a little inconsistent. Occasionally it will scroll smoothly but not usually. Whether dr

Re: [GNC] Simple Update Question

2021-07-27 Thread William Prescott
One reason to update regularly, is that someday one may have to update. And it is generally easier to update from one version to the next than it is to do an update that skips lots of versions. Data formats change and each version will support converting from the previous format but probably not

Re: [GNC] Transaction Entry Confirmation

2021-08-31 Thread William Prescott
I don't understand. When I type the Enter key, it moves from one line of a transaction to the next line. After the last line, it enters the transaction and moves to the first line of the next transaction. This is with GnuCash 4.6-1 running on MacOS 11.5.2. Will On 2021 Aug 31, at 08-31 10:06:

Re: [GNC] Calculating interest rates

2021-09-13 Thread William Prescott
Maybe not the most efficient way to do it, but it sounds trivial to iterate through the days of the year, calculating and crediting the interest every day based on the daily balance (incremented on days with a deposit). At the same time keep a running sum of the daily interest, then use your for

Re: [GNC] Newbie question

2021-09-26 Thread William Prescott
One quirk I noticed about opening balances is that that account seemed to be locked. When setting up a new account you could set the opening balances, but you couldn't change them later. I had to go into the account editor and unlock the opening balances account. Will On 2021 Sep 26, at 09-26

Re: [GNC] Thank you

2021-09-27 Thread William Prescott
I send my thanks to the group that writes and maintains this software. I have used it since version 2.6.1 at least. I've used or at least played with Quicken, Quickbooks, NPTreasurer, and probably a few others. Gnucash is ahead of them all for my purposes. Thank you, Will On 2021 Sep 27, at 09

Re: [GNC] Crash on exit in Gnucash 4.7-2 in macOS Big Sur

2021-09-27 Thread William Prescott
For what it's worth, I'm not seeing any problem with 4.7-2 on my 2017 Intel iMac OS Big Sur 11.6. Will On 2021 Sep 28, at 09-28 00:16:07, prl wrote: Thanks, John. Here's the thread 0 (the crashed thread) stack trace, machine registers and instruction stream from the crash report. I think tha

Re: [GNC] Error importing QIF file

2021-10-24 Thread William Prescott
File length Number of splits to find a single record. 2 1 4 2 8 3 16 4 32 5 64 6 128 7 256 8 512 9

Re: [GNC] Error when editing transfer for transaction

2021-12-12 Thread William Prescott
Sounds like a nice enhancement to have, but I would not be too sure about the "It shouldn't be too much work". Without looking at the code, I don't see how anyone could say how much work it would be. Seemingly small changes often can require lots of code to implement. It all depends on how that

[GNC] Report of upgrading without issues

2021-12-23 Thread William Prescott
For what it is worth: I have been running Gnucash 4.8-2 under Mac OS Big Sur 11.5/6 Last week I upgraded to Mac OS Monterey 12.1. There were no problems with Gnucash. Today I upgraded to Gnucash 4.9, again with no problems. Regards, Will ___ gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Can't get to GnuCash windows and menus

2021-12-28 Thread William Prescott
"After that, you have to start GnuCash first, then use File > Open to choose your book. You can't double-click a GnuCash file to open it." To amplify or clarify Adrien's comment on opening Gnucash under MacOS. When I double click on a Gnucash file, it does start Gnucash, but it opens the last f

Re: [GNC] 4.9 account set up of going business

2021-12-29 Thread William Prescott
I'm not sure if this is relevant … By default, the Opening Balance account is locked and transactions are only created there when you create a new account and give it an opening balance. But you can unlock the Opening Balance account and then adjust the transactions or add or delete them like i

Re: [GNC] 4.9 account set up of going business

2021-12-29 Thread William Prescott
there seem to be anything in the manual about "unlocking?" Please clarify. On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 9:29 PM William Prescott mailto:w...@theprescotts.com>> wrote: I'm not sure if this is relevant … By default, the Opening Balance account is locked and transactions are only

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 4.9 on macOS 12.1 and Apple silicon/M1

2022-01-05 Thread William Prescott
The pre-built binary is running fine on my MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip. Monterey MacOS 12.1 Gnucash 4.9 Will On 2022 Jan 5, at 01-05 07:19:11, Dustin Henning wrote: It's running fine on my M1 Mac Mini, but I'm still on Big Sur. On 1/5/22 7:31 AM, timothy.b via gnucash-user wrote: > Can a

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 4.9 on macOS 12.1 and Apple silicon/M1

2022-01-06 Thread William Prescott
It is speedy. Everything is speedy. This MBP replaces a 2014 MBP and and a 2017 iMac and it is a world of difference. On 2022 Jan 6, at 01-06 10:40:05, timothy.b wrote: Wow! Must be speedy as well. Thanks. On Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:30:28 -0500 William Prescott wrote > The pre-bu

Re: [GNC] Single mutual fund held in multiple accounts in gnucash

2022-01-08 Thread William Prescott
I probably don't understand exactly how you are proposing to set it up, but I can show you how I have mine set up. Fund Manager A (e.g. Fidelity, Vanguard, other) Fund Manager A - IRA Index fund 1 (e.g. a single mutual index fund) Index fund 2 (e.g. another

Re: [GNC] Single mutual fund held in multiple accounts in gnucash

2022-01-08 Thread William Prescott
in the Gnucash's Security Editor. Will On 2022 Jan 8, at 01-08 12:28:39, William Prescott wrote: I probably don't understand exactly how you are proposing to set it up, but I can show you how I have mine set up. Fund Manager A (e.g. Fidelity, Vanguard, other) Fund Manag

Re: [GNC] Single mutual fund held in multiple accounts in gnucash

2022-01-08 Thread William Prescott
g. Thanks for your help. On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 01:35:19 PM EST, William Prescott wrote: I probably should have added that in my case all of the index funds are only held in one of the categories, but I see no reason why some fund could not be held in more that one category. e.g. I

Re: [GNC] couple questions

2022-01-17 Thread William Prescott
Heide, My suggestion is: Do NOT update Gnucash and change computers at the same time. Update Gnucash now, so that when you transfer stuff to your new computer you will not be making any changes to Gnucash at that time. When you update Gnucash, do it one version at a time, i.e. first update to

Re: [GNC] couple questions

2022-01-17 Thread William Prescott
away when I want to print which is rare. That way I don't have to mess with printers and cartridges for the dozen times a year when I want a hard copy. On 2022 Jan 17, at 01-17 13:01:55, William Prescott wrote: Heide, My suggestion is: Do NOT update Gnucash and change computers a

Re: [GNC] cannot open data file

2022-02-13 Thread William Prescott
Same command works in MacOS from a terminal window. On 2022 Feb 13, at 02-13 12:07:08, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user wrote: On 2/13/22 12:00, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 2/13/2022 10:12 AM, suk wah Bernstein wrote: >> thanks for help. >> > You didn't bother to tell us your OS (make

Re: [GNC] Trying to register transactions in a different currency than your main one.

2022-02-15 Thread William Prescott
Luis, What problem do you have. I am on Gnucash 4.9-1, MacOS 12.2.1. I have some accounts in US dollars and some in Mexican Pesos. The default is Pesos. I regularly move money between the two. When I do, it adds a record to the Price Database. The Peso account shows the values in Pesos. The Dol

Re: [GNC] reconcile problem?

2022-02-23 Thread William Prescott
Ditto to Derek's comment. I've been using Gnucash since 2011, somewhat regularly (I wish it was monhtly) balancing some 20 odd accounts, checking, savings, investment and credit cards. Whenever I've run into problems it always turned out to be something I screwed up. The only one I regularly h

Re: [GNC] Report question

2022-02-24 Thread William Prescott
In the csv file created by exporting transactions, sort on the date field before doing anything. That will bring together all of the transactions on one line each without the other side of them. Will On 2022 Feb 24, at 02-24 12:56:15, Paul Kinzelman wrote: If I do a Search for the transaction

Re: [GNC] Report question

2022-02-26 Thread William Prescott
I found the same thing recently. I also would find it helpful to be able to export a transaction report as csv. If I had some free time, I would consider looking into adding that, but right now, I don't have the time. Will On 2022 Feb 26, at 02-26 10:56:27, Paul Kinzelman wrote: Thank you for

Re: [GNC] Report question

2022-02-26 Thread William Prescott
:00:54, William Prescott wrote: I found the same thing recently. I also would find it helpful to be able to export a transaction report as csv. If I had some free time, I would consider looking into adding that, but right now, I don't have the time. Will On 2022 Feb 26, at 02-26 10:56:27,

Re: [GNC] Automatic sales tax

2022-02-28 Thread William Prescott
Sebastian, Just to clarify, where the "item changed hands" may not be the seller's location. I use to live just outside the border of a city that charged a sales tax. When purchasing an item from a store within the city, I would pay sales tax if I went into the store, purchased it, and took it

Re: [GNC] mac fails to open gnucash file

2022-03-04 Thread William Prescott
There was a problem with 4.8 on Monterey. I don't remember the symptoms, but upgrading to 4.8-2 or 4.9 fixed it. Either should be compatible with 4.8 on Linux. Will On 2022 Mar 4, at 03-04 18:39:04, brad wrote: I suddenly can't open a gnucash file (it worked recently) on Mac. Gnucash 4.8.

Re: [GNC] 4.10 cannot be opened on macOS Big Sur w/Apple Silicon

2022-03-28 Thread William Prescott
It ran fine on my MacBookPro M1 Max with Monterey. Will On 2022 Mar 28, at 03-28 08:03:09, John W. O'Brien via gnucash-user wrote: Good morning all, Congratulations on the new release. I am unable to run the new 4.10 on my MacBook Air (M1, 2020) with Big Sur (11.6.5). 4.9 has been running f

Re: [GNC] 4.10 cannot be opened on macOS Big Sur w/Apple Silicon

2022-03-28 Thread William Prescott
tegration-gtk3.4.dylib | grep libcairo-gobje ct @executable_path/../Resources/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib (compatibility version 11603.0.0, current version 11603.0.0) On 3/28/22 10:25, William Prescott wrote: > It ran fine on my MacBookPro M1 Max with Monterey. > Will > On 2022

Re: [GNC] 4.10 cannot be opened on macOS Big Sur w/Apple Silicon

2022-03-28 Thread William Prescott
> 11603, but 2 isn't. It's strange that it works on Monterey, not that it fails on BigSur (and earlier, as the bug reporter is using Catalina and another poster here is using Mojave). Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 28, 2022, at 9:51 AM, William Prescott <mailto:w...@thepre

Re: [GNC] 4.10 cannot be opened on macOS Big Sur w/Apple Silicon

2022-03-28 Thread William Prescott
ar 28, at 03-28 14:33:58, William Prescott wrote: Curious. Before I had just verified that it opened without doing any work. But now I have Gnucash open and have added transactions and saved without a problem. Gnucash Version: 4.10 Build ID: 4.10+(2022-03-26) MacOS Monterey 12.3 MacBook Pr

Re: [GNC] 4.10 cannot be opened on macOS Big Sur w/Apple Silicon

2022-03-28 Thread William Prescott
version 11707.0.0, current version 11707.0.0): >> 11707 > 11603, but 2 isn't. >> >> It's strange that it works on Monterey, not that it fails on BigSur (and >> earlier, as the bug reporter is using Catalina and another poster here is >> using Mojave). >>

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.10 Documentation and All-in-one Bundles

2022-03-29 Thread William Prescott
I downloaded 4.10-3. On Apple M1 Max chip and Monterey it looks fine. Icons are back, search on account field doesn't crash. Thanks for your very quick work cleaning that up. Will On 2022 Mar 29, at 03-29 15:45:35, John Ralls wrote: I've uploaded Gnucash-Intel-4.10-3.dmg that should have the

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 4.10-1 won't open (Ronald Boyd)

2022-03-30 Thread William Prescott
For those who may have missed it, 4.10-1 had a number of issues on Macs. Our friendly developers have fixed them. Make sure you get 4.10-3. It should be working fine on Monterey and M1 chipped machines. Will On 2022 Mar 30, at 03-30 20:37:00, arthur brogard via gnucash-user wrote: 4.10-1 wou

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-19 Thread William Prescott
Unlike —real— databases, SQLite files are just ordinary files. You can copy and move them like any other file. So they can be backed up with a simple copy. Will On 2022 Apr 19, at 04-19 22:59:04, David Carlson wrote: I would like to add a question to Tom's list. Is there any way to easily ma

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-21 Thread William Prescott
In my experience, on MacOS, double-clicking on a Gnucash file opens Gnucash but not necessarily with the file that was double-clicked. Gnucash will open with whatever was the last file used. So, on MacOS, the suffix is useful, sort of. But it is not handled the way most applications handle doub

Re: [GNC] Minor issue that's becoming an irritant...

2022-04-30 Thread William Prescott
For the record, this is not a problem with Gnucash 4.10 on MacOS 12.3. The menus are on the same monitor as the Gnucash window. Will On 2022 Apr 30, at 04-30 05:50:55, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi, please watch Bug 797070 - With multiple monitors, menus only open in one monitor, regardless

Re: [GNC] 5.0-1 (Flathub) issue

2023-03-29 Thread William Prescott
I disagree. I like the new feature. I often have several entries that start similarly. Before I would have to type a lot of characters until I got to the point where they differed. Now I just start typing and it brings up all of them for me to choose with a couple of touches on the down arrow.

Re: [GNC] Cannot adjust right-hand column widths

2023-04-03 Thread William Prescott
Thanks David H. I had never mastered it before, but playing with the column widths in light of your email, I now see how to get it to do what I want.. Will On Apr 3, 2023, at 05:12, David H wrote: The Description column is a special case in that it auto re-sizes to fill the available width.

Re: [GNC] Cannot adjust right-hand column widths

2023-04-03 Thread William Prescott
, William Prescott mailto:w...@theprescotts.com>> wrote: > > Thanks David H. > > I had never mastered it before, but playing with the column widths in light > of your email, I now see how to get it to do what I want.. > > Will > > On Apr 3, 2023, at 05:12, David H w

Re: [GNC] Calculating IRR of an investment account

2023-04-08 Thread William Prescott
Or, as another example: sites that require a phone number (maybe for 2FA [second factor authentification]), but only accept US phone numbers. It is a major pain for those of us that don't live in the US, but have extensive dealings with US companies. Will On Apr 8, 2023, at 09:18, Michael or P

Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread William Prescott
Are you asking about backing up the Gnucash application or the Gnucash data file. You definitely should back up the data file. The application is less critical because you can always reinstall it. However, I just backup everything. It is simpler and safer than picking and choosing what to backup

Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread William Prescott
el or Penny Novack wrote: On 6/23/2023 12:30 PM, William Prescott wrote: > Are you asking about backing up the Gnucash application or the Gnucash data > file. You definitely should back up the data file. The application is less > critical because you can always reinstall it. However,

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

2023-06-29 Thread William Prescott
I agree. The latest version of clairvoyance in entering a transaction is great. It combines finding the most recent, and most likely, with a list of all possible options, and an easy up-arrow to kill the auto-complete if desired. Well done. Will On 29 Jun 2023, at 8:28, Jack Slater wrote: So

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

2023-07-14 Thread William Prescott
Just to be a devil's advocate... The advantage of top posting is that the new addition to the thread is obvious. With bottom posting, the new reply appears in the middle of the message, often with text both above and below it. Probably because of the default behavior of many email clients, most

Re: [GNC] Use again GnuCash

2023-08-05 Thread William Prescott
Another workaround is to keep the master copy on the iCloud drive, then use the Finder to copy it to a local folder before opening it, then copy it back to the iCloud drive after saving changes. Will On 5 Aug 2023, at 11:45, john wrote: Unfortunately the iCloud folder isn't available using Gt

Re: [GNC] How to delete unposted invoice?

2023-12-13 Thread William Prescott
I don't use invoices so this may not be applicable, but for transactions... If you are inside the transaction, the delete button will just delete the line you are on. But if you just click on the transaction without starting to edit it, the delete button will delete the entire transaction. So m

Re: [GNC] Help selecting accounts for a report

2023-12-24 Thread William Prescott
Hello Anna, I'm not sure if this addresses your question. On MacOS, in general when you want to make a discontinuous selection, the Apple Command key is what you need (⌘). The shift key will select every thing between the first and second click.The command key selects just the first and just th

Re: [GNC] Delay during data entry

2024-04-30 Thread William Prescott
For what it is worth, I don't see any delay at all. I have been using Gnucash for years and the data file is over a megabyte in size although that probably would only affect saving anyway. I have more than enough memory that entering transactions would not involve disk access. Even saving the fi

Re: [GNC] Balance sheet totals showing zeros?

2024-06-29 Thread William Prescott
Thanks. I have been following this question out of curiosity. I have multiple currencies in my accounts (USD, EUR, MXN) but I almost never use the reporting functions, so I hadn't investigated the issues raised by the original question. Best wishes, Will Prescott On 29 Jun 2024, at 8:04, Fred

Re: [GNC] Account types "Bank" and "Cash"

2024-07-02 Thread William Prescott
I use the "Bank" account type. When I reconcile, it opens a popup window to enter an interest payment. Sometimes I use it and sometimes I find it a nuisance so I am ambivalent about the value of the feature, but it is there. Best wishes, Will On 2 Jul 2024, at 13:38, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread William Prescott
You can leave the amount blank on the scheduled transactions. Just put in the lines for the accounts. It will create the transactions on schedule and you just have to fill in the amount when you have it. I'm not sure if that is helpful. Best wishes, Will On 3 Jul 2024, at 6:08, rsbrux via gnuc

Re: [GNC] GC crashing after upgrade

2024-07-03 Thread William Prescott
That is true. I have 30 versions from 2.6.1-1 to 5.7-1 on my Mac.  Best wishes, Will On 3 Jul 2024, at 14:32, John Ralls wrote: No need for a VM on macOS, app bundles are completely self-contained except for Finance::Quote. You can have as many different versions of GnuCash installed as you

Re: [GNC] How to handle recurring transactions with currency conversion

2024-07-03 Thread William Prescott
update the scheduled > transaction. In that sort of situation I also enter a very visible comment > in the transaction note such as "?? AMOUNT ??" that I remove when I go > through reconciling the account. > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 10:44 AM William Prescott <mailto:w...

Re: [GNC] Announcement: GnuCash 5.8 For Apple Silicon

2024-07-16 Thread William Prescott
Thank you, thank you. I was going to say the same thing. It is really quick opening, about the only thing I have done with it so far. But it does say it is a 5.7 version. Version: 5.7 Build ID: 5.7+(2024-06-29) Best wishes, Will On 16 Jul 2024, at 17:51, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote:

Re: [GNC] Announcement: GnuCash 5.8 For Apple Silicon

2024-07-16 Thread William Prescott
 On 16 Jul 2024, at 22:45, William Prescott wrote: Thank you, thank you. I was going to say the same thing. It is really quick opening, about the only thing I have done with it so far. But it does say it is a 5.7 version. Version: 5.7 Build ID: 5.7+(2024-06-29) Best wishes, Will On 16

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation "Postpone" does not work

2024-08-29 Thread William Prescott
I find canceling useful if the ending balance that you enter when starting the reconciliation is wrong, but you don't notice until midway through. If you cancel, and start again, all of the items that you have entered will be there, you just check the off again. Best wishes, Will On 29 Aug 202

Re: [GNC] Thank you to developers

2024-10-21 Thread William Prescott
Theoretically you can "train" it... > -derek > > On Mon, October 21, 2024 4:54 pm, William Prescott wrote: >> I used a .qfx file. It didn't occur to me to right-click on them and I >> didn't see that in my short perusal of the documentation. I always try &g

[GNC] Thank you to developers

2024-10-21 Thread William Prescott
I have used Gnucash since 2011-01-01. I had never used the import function until this past weekend. I always made all the entries manually. But I recently realized that my bank allows downloading transactions in qfx format and I decided to try it. It was a good time to do so. I recently returne

Re: [GNC] Thank you to developers

2024-10-21 Thread William Prescott
nt. -derek On Mon, October 21, 2024 4:25 pm, William Prescott wrote: > I have used Gnucash since 2011-01-01. I had never used the import function > until this past weekend. I always made all the entries manually. But I > recently realized that my bank allows downloading transactions in

Re: [GNC] Database backend for gnucash?

2024-10-09 Thread William Prescott
When one Saves As ..., there is a choice to save as: xml, sqlite3, postgres or mysql. Best wishes, Will On 9 Oct 2024, at 15:22, Mark at Lorimark wrote: Hi Gere, The back-end is simply "sqlite". If you can get that installed, then you can open the gnucash.sqlite files directly and poke arou

Re: [GNC] Could not obtain the lock for **GnuCash-datafilestring**

2024-10-29 Thread William Prescott
You can also delete the .LCK file and the message will go away. Will On 29 Oct 2024, at 20:14, Geoff wrote: Have you tried "Open Anyway"? On 30/10/2024 1:12 pm, Megan Tilley wrote: > Thanks, Robert. Apparently, unlike most Windows Users you may be acquainted > with, I almost always shut down a

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-10-30 Thread William Prescott
No problems with Gnucash 5.9 on an M1 running MacOS 15.0.1. I will probably update to 15.1 tonight. It is possible that it is Apple Intelligence causing problems but it seems unlikely. If I have problems after the update to 15.1, I'll let you know. Will On 28 Oct 2024, at 15:55, Seth Hamstead

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread William Prescott
much faster than it takes for one marble to traverse the entire tube. Will On 4 Nov 2024, at 12:09, Stephen M. Butler wrote: On 11/4/24 08:26, William Prescott wrote: > Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the > signal speed in copper, which is about ha

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread William Prescott
I didn't check the calculations. I believe you. On 4 Nov 2024, at 12:09, Stephen M. Butler wrote: On 11/4/24 08:26, William Prescott wrote: > Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the > signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light.

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread William Prescott
Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light. I got this from a couple searches in DuckDuckGo. Light in fiber is probably closer to the vacuum speed of light. Will On 4 Nov 2024, at 10:00, Michael or Pe

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-10-30 Thread William Prescott
Interesting. Does anyone know if it is only the beta (15.2) or is the problem also present in MacOS 15.1? Maybe I won't update tonight. Will On 30 Oct 2024, at 8:32, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote: > On Oct 28, 2024, at 17:55, Seth Hamstead wrote: > > Is anyone having issues using Gn

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-02 Thread William Prescott
From Seth's comment below, it appears that the problem is only with MacOS 15.2, the public beta. Has anyone else confirmed that Gnucash 5.9-1 runs okay on MacOS 15.1? Best wishes, Will On 2 Nov 2024, at 14:04, John Ralls wrote: I tried to work around this by building libgc as a static library

Re: [GNC] GNC 5.9 - Loss of suggestions when completing customer/vendor name?

2024-10-17 Thread William Prescott
It still works in 5.9 for me. When this happens to me it is usually because I am not in the account where the previous transaction was. e.g. I am trying to enter a Cash transaction with a lot of history, but it doesn't suggest them. Then I realize, I am in one of the bank accounts rather than

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-05 Thread William Prescott
On Nov 2, 2024, at 18:26, William Prescott wrote: > > From Seth's comment below, it appears that the problem is only with MacOS > 15.2, the public beta. Has anyone else confirmed that Gnucash 5.9-1 runs okay > on MacOS 15.1? > > Best wishes, > Will > > On 2 Nov

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread William Prescott
How long do you expect optical media to be supported. None of the last three computers I bought have an optical drive. External ones are available, for now at least. Long term archiving has to include a plan for migrating to new media as required. Best wishes, Will Burn RW optical discs and a

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