Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[John Ralls]

> On May 17, 2024, at 3:00 PM, R Losey  wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:27 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
> stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-05-17 07:44, R Losey wrote:
>>> I hope you know where that file is stored. One
>>> way to find it is to open the old GnuCash and then under File, choose
>> "Save
>>> As" - it will open in the same directory as your current file is stored.
>> 
>> While that will work, I think it's easier just to click File then hover
>> the mouse over the filename in the file list. GC will show the full path.
>> 
> 
> Interesting... that doesn't work on my iMac (M1 running Sonoma 14.4.1)

It can't. macOS controls the menus and hover text isn't something that their 
menus provide.

Regards,
John Ralls

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Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[R Losey]

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:27 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2024-05-17 07:44, R Losey wrote:
> > I hope you know where that file is stored. One
> > way to find it is to open the old GnuCash and then under File, choose
> "Save
> > As" - it will open in the same directory as your current file is stored.
>
> While that will work, I think it's easier just to click File then hover
> the mouse over the filename in the file list. GC will show the full path.
>

Interesting... that doesn't work on my iMac (M1 running Sonoma 14.4.1)

_
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rlo...@gmail.com
Micah 6:8
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Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Gary:

On 2024-05-15 18:07, Gary Slade wrote:

I need to transfer Gnu Cash data from my old Mac to my new Mac. How do I locate 
the data?

Regards,

Gary Slade
Pioneer, CA


In addition to the other answers, check out this entry in the GnuCash FAQ:

"Q: I just got a new computer. What should I copy over from my old one?"


The answer also refers you to the GnuCash wiki article "Backup".

If you have questions, having read that, you are welcome to post 
followup questions here.


Best regards,
    —Jim DeLaHunt

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Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

On 2024-05-17 07:44, R Losey wrote:
> I hope you know where that file is stored. One
> way to find it is to open the old GnuCash and then under File, choose "Save
> As" - it will open in the same directory as your current file is stored.

While that will work, I think it's easier just to click File then hover
the mouse over the filename in the file list. GC will show the full path.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
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Re: [GNC] Continued blank reports from within gnucash, printed version looks fine

[Charlie Morrison]

Quoting a previous message from John Ralls may be of value to resolve 
this issue:


On 12/14/23 10:58, john wrote:
It won't be fixed in the next release because it's not something that 
GnuCash can fix. As you say, the work around is to stop WebKit using the 
GPU with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment.


There's a typo in your flatpak command line that might trip up somebody 
not paying close enough attention. The correct command is

    WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
with a space between flatpak and run.
For users whose distros have screwed up the webkitgtk package and aren't 
using Flatpak, say

    WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash
instead or set WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment some 
other way.


Note that this is about webkitgtk not GnuCash so it's completely 
independent of GnuCash version. It has been reported for GnuCash 
releases as early as 4.4. Also, while there is a known issue with Nvidia 
drivers (reportedly resolved by Nvidia Linux driver 535.113.01), there 
are a couple of other ways that packagers can screw up the webkitgtk 
dependencies and break GPU acceleration regardless of GPU brand.


All of which said, Arch Linux managed to screw up their webkitgtk 
package so thoroughly that disabling GPU acceleration didn't help. 
There's a systemd journal crash on 
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798549 that you can use to 
recognize the problem. I think Arch have fixed it but it might still 
manifest in other distros.


Regards,
John Ralls

On 5/17/24 6:45 AM, Pierre Marcoux wrote:

I experienced the same blank report running Linux Mint 21.3 after an update
introduced after April 26.   I restored my system using Timeshift with a
snapshot of April 26 and the reports are no longer blank.  Will wait for a
fix before updating again. I
I have GNUCASH version 5.6 Build ID Flathub 5.6-1 under Linux Mint 21.3.
Hopefully this will help the great developers behind GNUCASH in
identifying the root cause.


On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM Daffy Duck  wrote:


I just upgraded to Fedora 40, cinnamon, and continue to have blank
reports and invoices from within gnucash, but when printed to PDF, they
look fine.

I've tried some other themes in Cinnamon, but it appears the same
thing.

I've attached a sample of what I mean:


How do I fix this?  The data is there, because when I print to PDF, the
file looks fine.
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[GNC] Accounts page error

[Graham]

Pardon my ignorance if this is something ultra basic, but at the bottom 
of the accounts tab, i get a line in the grey area like this:


£, Grand Total:              Net Assets £27,014,432 Profits -£86043

Now the profits side may be accurate, although I hope not; I can only 
dream of the net assets being even a tenth of the above figure! Most of 
the crazy numbers seem to be in the investment accounts for shares, but 
I can't see why it should be so inflated. Can it be just totalling up 
every transaction made in the account? [I do record purchases and sales 
in subaccounts of each nominee account]


Any suggestions most welcome.

Graham

--
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Cheerio,

Graham
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Re: [GNC] Continued blank reports from within gnucash, printed version looks fine

[Alex Aycinena]

As a point of reference, when I run the standard Gnucash available in
Fedora 40, Gnome, the reports display without a problem.

You mentioned that you upgraded to F40. Perhaps you need to update  your
version of Gnucash?

Alex


> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Pierre Marcoux 
> To: Daffy Duck 
> Cc: Gnucash Users 
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 07:45:25 -0400
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Continued blank reports from within gnucash, printed
> version looks fine
> I experienced the same blank report running Linux Mint 21.3 after an update
> introduced after April 26.   I restored my system using Timeshift with a
> snapshot of April 26 and the reports are no longer blank.  Will wait for a
> fix before updating again. I
> I have GNUCASH version 5.6 Build ID Flathub 5.6-1 under Linux Mint 21.3.
> Hopefully this will help the great developers behind GNUCASH in
> identifying the root cause.
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM Daffy Duck 
> wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded to Fedora 40, cinnamon, and continue to have blank
> > reports and invoices from within gnucash, but when printed to PDF, they
> > look fine.
> >
> > I've tried some other themes in Cinnamon, but it appears the same
> > thing.
> >
> > I've attached a sample of what I mean:
> >
> >
> > How do I fix this?  The data is there, because when I print to PDF, the
> > file looks fine.
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Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[R Losey]

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 6:21 AM Gary Slade  wrote:

> I need to transfer Gnu Cash data from my old Mac to my new Mac. How do I
> locate the data?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary Slade
> Pioneer, CA
>
>
Gary - the financial transactions are kept in one file; generally called
.gnucash. Where this is stored is kind of up to you when you
started GnuCash back when. I hope you know where that file is stored. One
way to find it is to open the old GnuCash and then under File, choose "Save
As" - it will open in the same directory as your current file is stored.
Worst case, you can do a search for  files ending with ".gnucash".

The reports and other settings are stored in the user data and user config
directories; these are listed in Gnucash -> About. I am using the default
location; on my Sonoma iMac, they are in "$HOME/Library/Application
Support/Gnucash"

You will certainly want the financial transactions; if you've customized
Gnucash with reports, etc, you'll want the configuration data.

You should know where your financial data file is, because you ARE backing
it up, right?


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Richard Losey
rlo...@gmail.com
Micah 6:8
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Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 5/15/2024 9:07 PM, Gary Slade wrote:

I need to transfer Gnu Cash data from my old Mac to my new Mac. How do I locate 
the data?

Regards,

Gary Slade
Pioneer, CA


I need to transfer a data file, a data directory, all of my user data, 
to a new machine << in other words, not really a gnucash specific 
question >>


In other words, if you are migrating to a new machine, especially under 
the same operating system, you would be wanting to migrate ALL of your 
user data. And you certainly wouldn't want to do that one file at a 
time. So while I could give you suggestions how to find the file that is 
your gnucash data so you could move JUST that file, is that really 
relevant to your situation?


As a user on your old Mac, you had a directory that contained ALL of 
your user data. When I migrate to a new machine, I copy the that user 
directory to my user directory on the new machine. BTW, this is a good 
reason not to change your "name" as user when going to a new machine.


Michael D Novack

PS -- When I do this (migrate) I would normally be using an external 
drive. Old machine to external drive then take that drive to the new 
machine and external drove to new machine. You were going to make a full 
backup anyway, yes?



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Re: [GNC] Continued blank reports from within gnucash, printed version looks fine

[Pierre Marcoux]

I experienced the same blank report running Linux Mint 21.3 after an update
introduced after April 26.   I restored my system using Timeshift with a
snapshot of April 26 and the reports are no longer blank.  Will wait for a
fix before updating again. I
I have GNUCASH version 5.6 Build ID Flathub 5.6-1 under Linux Mint 21.3.
Hopefully this will help the great developers behind GNUCASH in
identifying the root cause.


On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM Daffy Duck  wrote:

> I just upgraded to Fedora 40, cinnamon, and continue to have blank
> reports and invoices from within gnucash, but when printed to PDF, they
> look fine.
>
> I've tried some other themes in Cinnamon, but it appears the same
> thing.
>
> I've attached a sample of what I mean:
>
>
> How do I fix this?  The data is there, because when I print to PDF, the
> file looks fine.
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Re: [GNC] Unable to Refine Existing Search

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Fri, May 17, 2024 2:43 am, Patrick Skelton wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> In the absence of tags in GnuCash, I thought I would use the *Number
> *field
> as a pseudo tag since I am not using it for anything else.
>
> So my search would be along the lines of *AFTER-dd/mm/yy AND
> BEFORE-dd/yy/mm AND CONTAINS-STRING-[tag]*. Then what I'd want to do it
> run
> the search again with the same date constraints but a different tag. So,
> it
> appears your answer means I will simply have to re-enter the date range
> every time.

Correct, you cannot change the existing query, you can only augment it.
So yes, you will need to re-enter the whole query in order to change the
"contains string".

>
> I am an absolute amateur when it comes to accounts, but it does seem to me
> that the GnuCash could be improved in this area. Tags would be great, as
> would a bit more flexibility on custom reports.

You need to keep in mind that GnuCash is implemented by volunteers who all
have real Day Jobs, so GnuCash is only done in their free time.  Nobody is
paid to work on GnuCash.  As a result, features can sometimes take a long
time to get implemented, and in general the features that the devs need
get implemented first.

With that in mind, the current query interfaces were written 20 years ago.
 The UI gets translated into QofQuery predicates, which is (unfortunately)
a one-way transform.  It MAY be possible to take a QofQuery and rebuild
the UI, but it would not necessarily map to what you input (because the
structure of the QofQuery gets manipulated based on ANDs and ORs getting
unrolled).

Having said all that, yes, Tags would be a great addition.  Patches always
welcome!  :)

> Thank you for your answer.
>
> Kind wishes - Patrick

-derek
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   de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com
   Computer and Internet Security Consultant

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Re: [GNC] Unable to Refine Existing Search

[Patrick Skelton]

Hi Derek,

In the absence of tags in GnuCash, I thought I would use the *Number *field
as a pseudo tag since I am not using it for anything else.

So my search would be along the lines of *AFTER-dd/mm/yy AND
BEFORE-dd/yy/mm AND CONTAINS-STRING-[tag]*. Then what I'd want to do it run
the search again with the same date constraints but a different tag. So, it
appears your answer means I will simply have to re-enter the date range
every time.

I am an absolute amateur when it comes to accounts, but it does seem to me
that the GnuCash could be improved in this area. Tags would be great, as
would a bit more flexibility on custom reports.

Thank you for your answer.

Kind wishes - Patrick









On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 12:37, Derek Atkins  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 3:24 am, Patrick Skelton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I do a *Find* in GnuCash using a handful of criteria, it does what I'd
> > expect.
> >
> > If I then want to modify this existing *Find*, I cannot see how to do
> > this.
> > If I select the same operation again from the menu while the currently
> > active tab contains my current find results, and then I click on either
> > 'Refine current search' or 'Add results to current search', the original
> > criteria I set are gone, so basically I am just doing a new search and
> > have
> > to enter all the criteria again.
>
> No, the initial criteria are still there -- just inaccessible.  You're
> just appending to them with an additional AND statement (refine) or OR
> statement (add results).
>
> >
> > Is there a way to modify the search criteria already used or perhaps even
> > save a set of criteria so they can be re-run.
>
> No.
>
> > I realise what I am really wanting here is a custom report but I need it
> > to
> > contain only records containing a certain string and I can't see how to
> > get
> > the reporting to do this.
>
> Could you go into more details about what it is, exactly, you're trying to
> do?
>
> > Kind wishes - Patrick
>
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> -derek
>
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>
>
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[GNC] Continued blank reports from within gnucash, printed version looks fine

[Daffy Duck]

I just upgraded to Fedora 40, cinnamon, and continue to have blank
reports and invoices from within gnucash, but when printed to PDF, they
look fine.

I've tried some other themes in Cinnamon, but it appears the same
thing.

I've attached a sample of what I mean:


How do I fix this?  The data is there, because when I print to PDF, the
file looks fine.
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[GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[Gary Slade]

I need to transfer Gnu Cash data from my old Mac to my new Mac. How do I locate 
the data?

Regards,

Gary Slade
Pioneer, CA

Sent from my iPhone
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