Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 5:20 PM From: "Geert Janssens" To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Cc: "Cliff McDiarmid" , "Colin Law" Subject: Re: Read only transactions Op zondag 14 januari 2018

Re: Double Entry of Informal "Loan" & Repayment

2018-01-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 1/14/2018 1:57 PM, Keith Lewis wrote: I'm new to GC, longtime Quicken user. This is a double-entry accounting question rather than a GC question-hope that's okay in this mailing list. I made a purchase for a gift w credit card and used expenses:gifts to balance. Afterwards, a friend wanted

Re: Installation on Windows 10

2018-01-14 Thread David Carlson
Snarky, It does seem very odd that GnuCash is unable to write to that folder. Can you save other documents to that folder? I would recommend creating a special subfolder for GnuCash data files as GnuCash will be creating a lot of temporary files in the same folder. David C On Jan 14, 2018

Double Entry of Informal "Loan" & Repayment

2018-01-14 Thread Keith Lewis
I'm new to GC, longtime Quicken user. This is a double-entry accounting question rather than a GC question-hope that's okay in this mailing list. I made a purchase for a gift w credit card and used expenses:gifts to balance. Afterwards, a friend wanted to help with the gift and so paid me half

Installation on Windows 10

2018-01-14 Thread Snarky Email
I installed gnucash on my Windows 10 system and the new file setup fails. I am using defaults for a new account to practice/test with. When I try to save as xml I get this error: GnuCash could not write to C:\Users\Joe\Documents\gnucashtest.gnucash. That database may be on a

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Christoph R
Maybe you have set the day limit in the books options? “File-> Options”.. Cheers, Christoph > Am 13.01.2018 um 17:51 schrieb Cliff McDiarmid : > >> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 7:21 PM > >> From: "Cliff McDiarmid" >> To:

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zondag 14 januari 2018 16:14:18 CET schreef Cliff McDiarmid: >Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 12:27 PM >From: "Colin Law" >To: "Cliff McDiarmid" >Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org >Subject: Re: Read only transactions > >

Re: gnc-fq-update download

2018-01-14 Thread farleykj
I don't know where the gnc-fq-* files are put on a Linux installation, but they are just short Perl scripts that do the stuff for you. I'm on OS X, and on there the files are in /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin Either way, here the text from "gnc-fq-update". You can copy this into

can I make account names be left justified?

2018-01-14 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
When viewing a ledger in gnucash 2.6.15 (rev 1ef17e6+), the description is left-justified (good!) but the account names are right justified.  Is there a way to make the account names be left justified? Thanks. Some context, but this is really trivia:  In France, the basic structure of account

Re: Correcting Opening Balances

2018-01-14 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 1/13/2018 5:17 PM, David Carlson wrote: Did you check the transactions as you imported them to weed out duplicates and correct errors? If not, I would suggest starting over to get at least reasonably close to a good starting point. Also, this is a case where the solution to the problem more

Re: Manually entering historic records

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 January 2018 at 09:59, Gregory L. Davis wrote: > Trevor: > > It sounds to me like you have to increase the number of days for "Read only" > transactions. Try clicking on the file menu, then preferences. In the > "Accounts" tab, increase "Day Threshold for Read-Only

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Colin Law
What have you specified for Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red line): in Edit > Preferences > Accounts? Colin On 14 January 2018 at 12:04, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 5:22 PM > From: "Colin Law" >

Re: Read only transactions

2018-01-14 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 5:22 PM From: "Colin Law" To: "Cliff McDiarmid" Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Read only transactions On 13 January 2018 at 17:12, Cliff McDiarmid

Re: Manually entering historic records

2018-01-14 Thread Gregory L. Davis
Trevor: It sounds to me like you have to increase the number of days for "Read only" transactions. Try clicking on the file menu, then preferences. In the "Accounts" tab, increase "Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red line):". You can set the number of days to to something like

Re: Manually entering historic records

2018-01-14 Thread Rick Copple
Hi Trevor, What exactly is it doing to prevent you from entering past dates? I enter them all the time. You do have to enter the / dividers. Like instead of 11418 you would have to enter 1/14/18 to get the date to come out right.  -- Rick Copple On Jan 14, 2018, at 12:15 AM, Trevor Richards