Re: [GNC] Transactions Associations

2019-09-25 Thread Joseph G. Keithley, III via gnucash-user
Thanks Dave. I tried all the clicking I could think of and the only one that did anything was when I selected the "R" box on the import screen for an item and then double clicked on that row. A window titled "Select Matching Existing Transaction" and the bottom part of that window labeled

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 198, Issue 52

2019-09-25 Thread Bob Hammons
- I am the person that had the problem. Windows defender blocked gnucash, quicken and open office. I posted a fix but I did not save it. On my wife's computer quicken listed the programs that were blocked and was an easy fix.

Re: [GNC] Transactions Associations

2019-09-25 Thread David Cousens
PS The current versions of the Tutorial and concepts guide is available at https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/index.html and the Help manual at https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/help.html. David - David Cousens -- Sent from:

Re: [GNC] Transactions Associations

2019-09-25 Thread David Cousens
Transaction associations are not formed automatically on imported data. The purpose of the feature is to associate an external file such as an image or pdf file of a receipt or invoice or other documentation to a transaction entry in GnuCash so that if you need to view it, it can be opened from

Re: [GNC] Transactions Associations

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Transaction Associations are for linking files on your computer/network to a particular transaction, for example, a scanned receipt or utility bill. Unfortunately, I can’t help with the importer, as I don’t use it, but I’m sure someone else here will lend a suggestion. Regards, Adrien > On

[GNC] Transactions Associations

2019-09-25 Thread Joseph G Keithley III via gnucash-user
Hi, ?? I am having a problem with transaction associations. I am using Gnucash 3.7 on a 64-bit Windows 7 Pro laptop.?? I am trying to import an OFX file that contains stock cash dividends.?? I seemed to have messed something up early on because all the dividends get imported directly

Re: [GNC] Suggestion to ease newbies import problems

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Data? Wha? > On Sep 25, 2019 w39d268, at 7:35 PM, David Cousens > wrote: > > After the second six pack "What data errors?" > > > > - > David Cousens ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Suggestion to ease newbies import problems

2019-09-25 Thread David Cousens
After the second six pack "What data errors?" - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] Suggestion to ease newbies import problems

2019-09-25 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 25, 2019, at 5:15 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > That seems like an admirable and at least enjoyable solution. I'd be worried about data entry errors, especially after the second 6-pack. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Suggestion to ease newbies import problems

2019-09-25 Thread David Cousens
That seems like an admirable and at least enjoyable solution. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Glad that did the trick. Maybe this should be added to the wiki FAQ? Regards, Adrien > On Sep 25, 2019 w39d268, at 3:38 PM, Sadhna True > wrote: > > Problem solved! Adrien & Colin were correct - the issue was with Windows > Defender (I am running Windows 10). There must have been a recent

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Wed, September 25, 2019 12:20 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> On Sep 25, 2019 w39d268, at 8:49 AM, Derek Atkins >> wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, September 25, 2019 9:36 am, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: >>> >>> >>> This is actually a significant issue for the business version of >>> gnucash >>>

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Stan, Looks like you missed the ’solved’ reply that came in about 2hrs ago. (and it was Win10 for the record as noted in that reply) Regards, Adrien > On Sep 25, 2019 w39d268, at 5:15 PM, Stan Brown > wrote: > > > Well, you haven't told us which OS you're using, so that makes it kind > of

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Wed, September 25, 2019 6:16 pm, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > On 9/25/2019 1:53 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> which is contrary to your statement that GnuCash cannot do it. > > Would you care to specify WHERE you saw that statement you claim is from > me? Sure: > On Wed, September 25,

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/25/2019 1:53 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: which is contrary to your statement that GnuCash cannot do it. Would you care to specify WHERE you saw that statement you claim is from me? And I believe we are talking about VERY different issues. As I have pointed out, not MY problem since all

Re: [GNC] OFX import for Multiple Visa

2019-09-25 Thread incoming-gnucash
On this topic: The import was successful but the transactions were put into the old VISA account instead of GnuCash asking me what account they should go to. Maybe this is a developer question but how does GC know what account to put the transactions into? Which brings me back to

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Sadhna True
Problem solved! Adrien & Colin were correct - the issue was with Windows Defender (I am running Windows 10). There must have been a recent update that created this problem, not sure. In any case, I fixed it by opening Windows Security in Settings and then going to Controlled Folder Access. I

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
My recollection is spotty but that sounds familiar. Maybe related, (or the same person) a few weeks ago someone could only save using Win10 to a thumb drive - for any app. They settled on continuing to do so and not proceeding down the rabbit hole further as far as I know. If the user has

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Colin Law
Wasn't there an issue posted recently about Windows deciding that gnucash was a malicious app and not letting it write anything to disk? Colin On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 20:16, Sadhna True wrote: > > I have not changed the location where the files are saved (in my user folder > on the C:\ drive).

[GNC] Import bug? no account matching options

2019-09-25 Thread Grant
I'm trying to import transactions I've downloaded from Chase in a QIF file but when I'm importing Gnucash doesn't give me any options to match them to an account (zero accounts in the list) and the button to change the matched account is grayed out. This is happening with 2 separate Chase

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You shouldn’t suddenly have a permissions issue if all was working properly before. Make sure you are trying to save the file either in your own user folder or on a thumb drive. (or network share) Some users have reported here that trying to save files to C:\ or other locations have a chance

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Wed, September 25, 2019 12:47 pm, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > On 9/25/2019 9:49 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Nope, this is handled by Employee Expense Vouchers. If you have >> anemployee card, when you enter an expense you can mark it as Cash or >> Card,which dictates whether to

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Sadhna True
Thank you, that's very helpful. How do I fix the permissions problem? I don't see any issue with the disk being full. Note that I am no computer expert! Sadhna G. True sadhnat...@hotmail.com Mobile: (859) 221-6064 From: gnucash-user on behalf of Stan Brown

Re: [GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Stan Brown
Usually "unable to obtain a lock" means that the previous instance of GnuCash crashed or was force-stopped. But you say that didn't happen, and if it had then you would not get the "unable to create a backup" error when trying to save the file. That error suggests that for some reason you do not

[GNC] Unable to modify existing database

2019-09-25 Thread Sadhna True
When I open GnuCash, I get the error message "unable to obtain a lock." I have searched for a .lck file, but none exists. I selected "Open Anyway" and tried to make changes to my accounts. I cannot save those changes because then I get the error message "unable to create a backup." I have read

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 25, 2019 w39d268, at 8:49 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > On Wed, September 25, 2019 9:36 am, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: >> >> >> This is actually a significant issue for the business version of gnucash >> because this is exactly how business/organization credit card account >> work.

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 9/25/2019 12:14 AM, Zacharie Durand wrote: Hello, I’m wondering if anyone has dealt with multiple credit cards under a single credit card account? My spouse and I each have a credit card under a single credit card account. We make purchases on our separate credit cards. Each month I

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread David Carlson
Zacharie, I have a bank account with two debit cards that have different card numbers. In my case the bank does not separate the transactions by card number in the monthly statement, but the last four digits of the card number is in their description field which maps into the GnuCash Notes field

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I forgot to mention that you might also run a Reconciliation Report as a first/early step. The report can be made to show only unreconciled and/or cleared transactions. Then you’re looking at each sub-account (card) separately and can make sure everything is where it belongs, then proceed with

Re: [GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I’m guessing you mean you can’t verify the account from the reconcile window... Before opening the Reconcile window, as a first step, I’d go through each account and mark the matching transactions from the statement as ‘cleared’ by clicking the R column. (changing the flag from ’n’ to ‘c’)

[GNC] Credit card account with two cards

2019-09-25 Thread Zacharie Durand
Hello, I’m wondering if anyone has dealt with multiple credit cards under a single credit card account? My spouse and I each have a credit card under a single credit card account. We make purchases on our separate credit cards. Each month I receive a single bill for both cards. The bill

Re: [GNC] OFX import for Multiple Visa

2019-09-25 Thread Liz
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:22:13 -0500 (CDT) David Cousens wrote: > Kevin > > It may also be that your bank is supplying an underlying accountid > that is the same for both your old and new credit card accounts even > though the card number is different. You can open the OFX files with > a text