Re: [GNC] Register column sizing

2023-01-06 Thread peterb
I have been using Gnucash for many years and I still never know exactly what's going to happen when I try to resize a column. It is 120% infuriating - at least to me! - so I'm in favor of trying to make the behavior more sensible. It feels fundamentally weird to me to privilege the description col

Re: [GNC] Proposed: "Realized Gain/Loss" transactions considered harmful

2021-05-25 Thread peterb
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 4:38 AM Geoff wrote: > I personally found the current process quite confusing for a long long > time until one day it finally "clicked" and now I am used to using the > Lots functionality for tracking capital gains & losses. > Hi, Geoff! I'm in the same boat. I'm used to

Re: [GNC] Import Format

2021-05-27 Thread peterb
On a related note, I wish Gnucash supported export formats besides CSV. -p On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:39 PM DaveC49 wrote: > The CBA in Australia offers CSV, OFX and QIF (2 variants) downloads from > the > bank website. They only offer direct connect OFX downloads via MYOB or > Quicken where th

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Transaction Entry Confirmation

2021-08-31 Thread peterb
While I'm not personally in great need of audio confirmations, it does seem to me they might be useful from an accessibility standpoint. On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 4:49 PM Dale Alspach wrote: > If the register is set to future transactions after the blank transaction > and the cursor is on the bott

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-18 Thread peterb
In the US, credit card rebates are best treated as a contra-expense account for rebates. In other jurisdictions, this might differ. -p On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:47 PM R. Victor Klassen wrote: > The OLD day? We still have a couple of vendors like that. Happily for us > accrual accounting is

[GNC] Gnucash 4.0 doesn't launch on MacOS X 10.15.4

2020-06-29 Thread peterb
...or at least, not on my instance of it. No particular user-visible error message, no splash screen visible, lots of stuff in the console. Happy to file a bug or share whatever data might help. Is anyone else seeing this, or am I unique? -P ___ gnuca

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 4.0 doesn't launch on MacOS X 10.15.4

2020-06-29 Thread peterb
tandard permission to open since it > didn't come from the App Store. > > But it didn't open. > > Then I opened it again and it was fine. > > > > Will > > > > On 2020 Jun 29, at 06-29 11:08:57, Jean Laroche > wrote: > > > > I'm on 10.13.4

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 4.0 doesn't launch on MacOS X 10.15.4

2020-06-29 Thread peterb
-) > > Cheers David H. > > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 06:42, peterb wrote: > >> I got this working thanks to some out-of-band advice from Alton Brantley >> (thanks!). We might consider documenting this if it happens to more >> people >> on Catalina besides

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-04 Thread peterb
Fleur Dragan said: > So when I try to set up OFX connectivity, the user is created > successfully. Then I try to retrieve accounts, which do show up in the log > window, and the log window says I may now close, but when I do, nothing > happens. This was the same behavior I saw with aqbanking 6.1

Re: [GNC] OFX setup

2020-07-06 Thread peterb
race file, so I guess I read how to turn that on wrong. I've attached the > stdout/stderr output. Will the trace be helpful? If so, I'll go back and > to that. What else have I missed? > > > > > > > > thanks, > > fleur > > -- > > Fleur Dra

[GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

2020-07-27 Thread peterb
I've encountered a bit of a Scooby Doo mystery, and I'm hoping someone can help me figure it out. My Balance Sheet report consistently includes commodity accounts with 0 balance figures for me, even when I've unchecked "Include accounts with zero total balances." Trying to reproduce this with a b

Re: [GNC] $0 total balances wrongly appearing on Balance Sheet.

2020-07-29 Thread peterb
;s use an example where 'Cash' has a 0.00 balance, > >> > >> > >> If you uncheck both options you'll see: > >> > >>Cash 0.00 > >> > >> If 1st option is unchecked, second option checked, you'll see: > >

Re: [GNC] Request for help with GnuCash 4.1

2020-08-08 Thread peterb
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:04 AM Fred Bone wrote: > On 04 August 2020 at 20:43, David Jaggar said: > > > Hello to Whom this concerns: > > > > I'm not quite sure if I am sending this request to the correct place. > > Anyway, I am wanting help with updating to the latest version 4.1 or even > > 4.

Re: [GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?

2020-08-15 Thread peterb
I'm one of the people who doesn't have a problem modifying the font and font size by editing the GTK config file, but for what it's worth I agree that adding a menu pref for this would be a high-value item for most users. -Peter On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:47 AM Marilyn Graves Kimple via gnucash-us

[GNC] Tracking cash flows with balanced transactions

2020-08-19 Thread peterb
Let's say I have a security - could be a stock, or a bond - which periodically yields some dividend or interest. Often it's convenient to be able to see those dividends in a single register. The vanilla way to account for dividends or interest doesn't quite make this easy: the obvious way to do i

Re: [GNC] Tracking cash flows with balanced transactions

2020-08-20 Thread peterb
e see the attached screenshot. > > Regards > > Geoff > = > P.S. This is mentioned in Chapter 9.8: > https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/invest-dividends1.html > > On 20/08/2020 2:01 pm, peterb wrote: > > Let's say I have a security - could be a s

Re: [GNC] Capital Gain Calculations on Split Stocks

2020-08-24 Thread peterb
My experience is that the View Lots cap gain method is tractable right up to the point where you have partial lots, and is not really usable (or, at least, I don't find it usable) afterwards. When I have a partial sale of a lot, I don't even try to use it. Just add a gain/loss transaction by hand

[GNC] Linked document indicator not appearing.

2021-01-05 Thread peterb
I just linked a file to a transaction for the first time. The link is there and seems to work mostly correctly (I can open it, and so on), but unlike what the manual describes in Section 6.3, I see no "A" indicator in the reconciliation cell. I am in the double-entry transaction journal view, as re

Re: [GNC] Linked document indicator not appearing.

2021-01-06 Thread peterb
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:47 AM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Jan 5, 2021, at 6:24 AM, peterb wrote: > > > > I just linked a file to a transaction for the first time. The link is > there > > and seems to work mostly correctly (I can open it, and so on), but u

Re: [GNC] Linked document indicator not appearing.

2021-01-06 Thread peterb
OK, never mind - this was user error. I did not realize that "double line" was a separate item in the View menu, and as soon as I turned that on, I see the 'f' as expected. Thank you! On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:00 AM peterb wrote: > I'm on 10.15.2. > > Could I

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Forum

2021-01-06 Thread peterb
There's also a Reddit for gnucash that sees at least some use: reddit.com/r/GnuCash On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:12 AM r0bis wrote: > Thanks David, > > Jumped in after a long time, in fact I was posting here for the first time > and I did not register the post date; sorry for this very belated rep

[GNC] Mystery per-security Opening Balances accounts appearing

2021-03-17 Thread peterb
I've been using Gnucash for well over a year and a half. Sometime within the past few months, I have seen a number of completely empty Opening Balances equity accounts opening themselves for certain securities that I own. They are always denominated in the currency of the security; so for example

Re: [GNC] Mystery per-security Opening Balances accounts appearing

2021-03-17 Thread peterb
It looks like this issue was also raised (by someone other than me) on the GnuCash reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuCash/comments/m5fgk1/confused_about_opening_balance_still/ On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 1:00 PM peterb wrote: > I've been using Gnucash for well over a year and a half.

[GNC] SQLLite + OFX Import + Bayes = Massive network traffic

2023-04-05 Thread peterb
I've been maintaining a GnuCash database in a MySQL database for several years. Lately, I've noticed various stages of OFX import (including changing accounts, but also hitting the "OK" button to finish the import) taking more and more time. When on the same LAN as the database it's bad, perhaps 10

Re: [GNC] SQLLite + OFX Import + Bayes = Massive network traffic

2023-04-05 Thread peterb
Also, despite my error in the Subject: line of this post, I did actually meant MySQL, and *not* SQLite. On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 2:35 PM peterb wrote: > I've been maintaining a GnuCash database in a MySQL database for several > years. Lately, I've noticed various stages of OFX i

Re: [GNC] SQLLite + OFX Import + Bayes = Massive network traffic

2023-04-05 Thread peterb
Good point. Mac OS X, Gnucash 4.11. On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 6:00 PM David Carlson wrote: > I am not sure which OS TCPDump runs in, but it would still be very helpful > to list which version of GnuCash you are running and which OS. > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 2:45 PM peterb wrot

[GNC] Apple Silicon binaries

2023-10-07 Thread peterb
Is anyone distributing an Apple Silicon (or fat) binary for Gnucash 5.4.2 on Mac yet, or is building from source my only option? (I know Intel will work in emulation.) -p ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

[GNC] Reordering splits in a transaction

2020-05-16 Thread peterb
I have a recurring transaction with a very complicated split. At some point, the splits in the recurring transaction seem to have organized themselves in a confusing way - seemingly not related to the order in which I entered them. Is there any way to reorder splits within a transaction short of "

[GNC] Reordering splits in a transaction

2020-05-17 Thread peterb
> > On 15 May 2020 at 9:03, peterb said: > > > * I have a recurring transaction with a very complicated split. At some *> > * point, the splits in the recurring transaction seem to have organized *> > * themselves in a confusing way - seemingly not related to the orde

[GNC] Can Finance::Quote look up bond prices by CUSIP?

2020-06-03 Thread peterb
Can Finance::Quote be used to look up bond prices? If so, how can I configure the security in GnuCash to get this done? A related question is how can I use it to fetch currency prices. Thanks! -Peter ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.o

Re: [GNC] Can Finance::Quote look up bond prices by CUSIP?

2020-06-08 Thread peterb
GnuCash proper, but I'm hoping someone else has had this issue and found a solution!) -Peter On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:43 AM Chris Good wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 10:52:18 -0400 > From: peterb > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: [GNC] Can Finance:

Re: [GNC] Can Finance::Quote look up bond prices by CUSIP?

2020-06-08 Thread peterb
the scope of this thread. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! -p On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:35 PM John Ralls wrote: > After searching for a bit the only site I found that offers free bond > lookup by cusp at all is the empirasign.com that you found. > > On Jun 8, 2020, at 11:40 AM, peterb