Re: [GNC] Help with Export

2019-07-28 Thread David Carlson
Microsoft Windows likes users to save all their stuff in a sub directory of My Documents. That is actually the same as C:\users\[username]\My Documents\ . GnuCash suggests creating a subdirectory with a familiar name because it will fill up with backups as time passes. Often users have a

Re: [GNC] Help with Export

2019-07-28 Thread Greg Feneis
It could be a permissions issue like Christopher Lam wrote. I just played around with the Export dialog on GnuCash 2.6.21 on Win 7 64. It appears GnuCash knows what extension to give the file based on the Data Format selection at the top of the dialog box. Mine was at .xml by default. I just

Re: [GNC] Help with Export

2019-07-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m on a Mac, which doesn’t care about file extensions, but perhaps that is what Windows was complaining about. Despite the fact that the export is CSV (with custom delimiter) it saved it without an extension. If the Windows build does the same, this might be the cause of the error. Try giving

Re: [GNC] Help with Export

2019-07-28 Thread Christopher Lam
This may have something to do with Windows 10 permissions. It's restricting apps more and more with each update. On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 23:45, James Fuller wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to export my chart of accounts so that I can start a new set > of books. After opening Gnucash I move to the

[GNC] Help with Export

2019-07-28 Thread James Fuller
Hi, I'm trying to export my chart of accounts so that I can start a new set of books. After opening Gnucash I move to the File drop down menu.  then choosing Export I get a screen that offers options. I choose export accounts.  A screen pops up that wants ( i think ) the name of the file to

Re: [GNC] GC Crash Report

2019-07-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 28 Jul 2019, at 15:26, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jul 28, 2019, at 4:45 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring >> them from an asset account to a liability account by opening the asset >> account and changing each

Re: [GNC] GC Crash Report

2019-07-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 28 Jul 2019, at 13:29, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Just curious, > > Did you transfer all of the transactions in that asset account to the same > liability account? (1:1 transfer) There were several asset accounts, each one of which was transferred on a 1 to 1 basis to a Liability

Re: [GNC] GC Crash Report

2019-07-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 28, 2019, at 4:45 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring > them from an asset account to a liability account by opening the asset > account and changing each one in turn until the asset account was empty. > > I then

Re: [GNC] GC Crash Report

2019-07-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Just curious, Did you transfer all of the transactions in that asset account to the same liability account? (1:1 transfer) If so, you could have just deleted the asset account and GnuCash would have asked you where you wanted to move the transactions. (of course, the method you chose should

[GNC] GC Crash Report

2019-07-28 Thread Michael Hendry
I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring them from an asset account to a liability account by opening the asset account and changing each one in turn until the asset account was empty. I then deleted the (now empty) asset account, without closing the tab