Re: [GNC] Handling Return of Capital in Reinvested dividends

2018-04-14 Thread John C
Gnucash v2.6.17 on Windows 10 doesn't handle Return-of-Capital transactions on a lot-by-lot basis.  I'm not sure about v3.0. The total basis can be reduced in a transaction but the gains/losses won't be calculated correctly. On 4/14/2018 1:14 PM, Alton Brantley wrote: I am trying to deal with

[GNC] Gnucash-3.0: What's going on with tab label truncation?

2018-04-14 Thread lj
Using: gnucash-3.0 on Slackware Linux 14.2 When an account's register is open, the tab should show the account name. With GnuCash-3.0 I'm seeing something very odd. Account names of 6 characters and longer are correctly displayed using a tab of the correct width. Account names shorter than 6

Re: [GNC] Loading User Data takes litterally half an hour !

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 4:04 AM, JF Le Téno wrote: > > Dear Gnucash Team, > > I have nee using Gnucash since 2003 !! > All my personal finance is in there, in a 17Mo file (database). > > Since I update to 3.0, loading those data literally takes half an hour, BUT > most of

Re: [GNC] Gnucash ver. 3.0 app installation for Mac OS ver. 10.13.4

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 9:44 AM, ROBERT KUCHTA wrote: > > > I am using GnuCash 2.6.19. I received your message, that I could now install > GnuCash 3.0. dmg. I have tried it, but it does not work. > > I get the message “Verifying GnuCash app, then I am asked to open

[GNC] Gnucash ver. 3.0 app installation for Mac OS ver. 10.13.4

2018-04-14 Thread ROBERT KUCHTA
I am using GnuCash 2.6.19. I received your message, that I could now install GnuCash 3.0. dmg. I have tried it, but it does not work. I get the message “Verifying GnuCash app, then I am asked to open it, but when I tick “open”, nothing happens. In the “Finder” the app GnuCash 3.0 can be seen

[GNC] Loading User Data takes litterally half an hour !

2018-04-14 Thread JF Le Téno
Dear Gnucash Team, I have nee using Gnucash since 2003 !! All my personal finance is in there, in a 17Mo file (database). Since I update to 3.0, loading those data literally takes half an hour, BUT most of the time Windows 10 will write "not responding". To be honest, it was slow already on

[GNC] Gnucash crashes in Win10 Pro

2018-04-14 Thread David Britton
Gnucash 3 just cannot open. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 3:10 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Apr 14, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Alen Siljak wrote: >> >> >>> I think that the currency offered on the accounts page is the currency of >>> the root account. That’s set when you create a new

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Alen Siljak wrote: > > > > I think that the currency offered on the accounts page is the currency of > > the root account. That’s set when you create a new book with File>New and > > its default is the default currency in Preferences. Once

Re: [GNC] Setup Subscription Giving To GnuCash

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 8:10 AM, Wes Shank wrote: > > John – please setup subscription giving for the GnuCash project via Paypal. > It would be much either for me to support the project monthly than to try and > remember the last time I donated. > Please do not write the

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread Alen Siljak
> I think that the currency offered on the accounts page is the currency of the root account. That’s set when you create a new book with File>New and its default is the default currency in Preferences. Once it’s set for a book it can’t be changed in the GUI. Thanks for the info,

[GNC] Handling Return of Capital in Reinvested dividends

2018-04-14 Thread Alton Brantley
I am trying to deal with Return of Capital events happening over a series of dates, therefore a series of lots. For whatever reason, I am not able to adjust individual lot amounts. Example: Tx 0:January 1,2017 $1000 DR Stock:XYZ Corp 100 sh @ $10/shr $1000 CR Cash And in ACTION->View Lots

Re: [GNC] How to Copy Transactions From .xml.gnucash to .gnucash File

2018-04-14 Thread Glenn Bordonada via gnucash-user
It works. Thanks. Using export to .csv and import from .csv is way more difficult. On Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:05:53 AM GMT+8, Geert Janssens wrote: Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 17:27:29 CEST schreef Glenn Bordonada via gnucash- user: > I saved my .gnucash

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 8:22 AM, cicko wrote: > > On Linux (OpenSuse w/ Cinnamon) in GnuCash 3.0, I've set the default currency > to EUR: > > https://imgur.com/Pk9JEyi > > but the list of columns in the Accounts view still displays GBP as the only > option, i.e. Balance,

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The function of ‘placeholder’ for the account is separate than the function of rolling up the totals of sub accounts in the budget module. As far as I can tell, they are not related in any way. I have several parent accounts that are not placeholders, but I don’t enter budgets for them, I only

Re: [GNC] How to Copy Transactions From .xml.gnucash to .gnucash File

2018-04-14 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 17:27:29 CEST schreef Glenn Bordonada via gnucash- user: > I saved my .gnucash file as .xml.gnucash file. > In my next data entry session, I forgot about this and entered some > transactions. These were entered into the .xml.gnucash file. Now I want to > go back to using

[GNC] Version 3

2018-04-14 Thread Alan Schold
I download and ran the new, stable version 3.0. When I click on the desktop icon I first get a notice that my Gnucash data file is locked. Since I properly closed the file before I upgraded I click on "open anyway". After some delay a box appears named Microsoft C++ Visual Runtime Library. It

[GNC] How to Copy Transactions From .xml.gnucash to .gnucash File

2018-04-14 Thread Glenn Bordonada via gnucash-user
I saved my .gnucash file as .xml.gnucash file. In my next data entry session, I forgot about this and entered some transactions. These were entered into the .xml.gnucash file. Now I want to go back to using my old .gnucash file. How do I recover the transactions I entered into .xml.gnucash file.

[GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread cicko
On Linux (OpenSuse w/ Cinnamon) in GnuCash 3.0, I've set the default currency to EUR: https://imgur.com/Pk9JEyi but the list of columns in the Accounts view still displays GBP as the only option, i.e. Balance, Balance (GBP). There is no Balance (EUR) option. On Windows this worked well, as far

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 07:52:17 -0500, David Carlson wrote: > Ankur, > > I suggest filing a bug report about that second point in the budget report > if you have already migrated to release 3.0 and you still see it there. > That report has been revised rather recently and I do not remember exactly

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 13 April 2018 at 11:11, Ankur Sinha wrote: > I've a query regarding placeholder accounts in the budget view too. My > "dining" account has two sub accounts: "drinks", and "food", for > example. Dining is a "placeholder" account and the values associated > with it show

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.0-1 crashes on MacOS 10.13.4

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
Subramanian, Another user tracked down the cause of that exception in his file to a bad date, 206-01-02; it should have been 2016-01-02. In his case the error was in an invoice. The exception was due to trying to convert ‘206-‘ into a number. I’ve changed the date parser logic to prevent the

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread David Carlson
Ankur, I suggest filing a bug report about that second point in the budget report if you have already migrated to release 3.0 and you still see it there. That report has been revised rather recently and I do not remember exactly when. I recall years ago there were some issues in that report

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

2018-04-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 09:55:27 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote: > for the first question try: > > view > filter by > other > > then put a check mark in the "show zero total accounts" box. Ah, yes, that worked. I had to check "show unused accounts". Thanks! > Not sure on the second, but the

[GNC] Gnucash 3.0 upgrade on Windows 10 - Reports

2018-04-14 Thread Peter Jackson
I tried several times to install Gnucash 3 over an existing 2.6.20 installation. Gnucash 3 would not launch. I have now clean-installed Gnucash 3.o on a second PC and it opens my database immediately. However, of course I no longer have the reports written by Cindy and others eg YTD-Budget,

[GNC] ENDED: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-14 Thread Liz
On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:39:36 -0400 johnny wrote: > hola > > On 04/10/2018 16:20, listreader wrote: > > The prefix is EXTREMELY useful to me. So add me to the 'approve' > > side of your tally. > me too. > > and really- what is all this bitching about? 5 extra chars at the >