> On Jul 7, 2020, at 1:34 PM, Fleur Dragan wrote:
>
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug --extra --logto
> ./gnucash.trace 2>&1 | tee gnc.out
>
it's --logto=./gnucash.trace. I tried without the '=' and couldn't find the log
either.
Yes, the accounts *should* be
Ok, thank you for your help. I had a look at the eguile file for the report
and it calls fmtnumeric for the qty. It looks like that's changed in the
utilities file along the way from:
(define-public (fmtnumeric n)
;; Format gnc-numeric n with as many decimal places as required
(fmtnumber
Greg,
It is not that complicated (although it could be in principle). Nabble is a
company and it gets some income from Google
ads on the Nabble interface. That is apparently not sufficient to cover their
operating costs recently and they have
also had server failures and are currently
On 2020-07-07 08:34, Art Chimes wrote:
> Although I use "google" as a verb all the time, in fact my default
> search tool is the more privacy-centered DuckDuckGo
> (https://duckduckgo.com). My search for gnucash forums (just the two
> words, no quotes) came up with rather different results.
It would appear that Nabble the company which makes the Nabble interface to the
forums available has had some financial
problems and is not getting sufficient income to keep all their servers up.
This may be the origin of the problems as
they had a server failure a few days ago. They however
Most people in recent times are using a webmail client (eg GMail, Yahoo, AOL,
Hotmail, etc.), so they are reading E-Mail in a webbrowser, just as they would
be reading postings in an actual webforum. The idea of an "E-Mail List" as
something separate from a forum is actually foreign to these
On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:34:40 +0100 Fred Bone wrote
(What mystifies me is why people go looking for a "forum" in the first
place).
If I didn't know better, THAT is the first thing I would look for.
Bruce
Preach the Gospel wherever you go.
If necessary, use words.
This time I ran:
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug --extra --logto
./gnucash.trace 2>&1 | tee gnc.out
Again, setting up a user was successful. I accepted the OFX server certificate
and saw my accounts listed in the log window. I set up an account with just
the
Gmane is (thanks heavens) definitely not dead. I am at this very moment
reading your post via Gmane. The Thunderbird email program, which I
use for normal day-to-day email, will also connect to usenet services
(like gmane) and presents those posts with the same UI as regular emails.
It is the
Indeed Usenet lives!
I'm sending this reply via Thunderbird connected to news.gmane.io.
If this works, I think I'll switch away from Mail.app at least for the
GnuCash lists as I like the thread management better, plus the Reply
button defaults to reply-list address and I don't have to edit
It seems my mail app added someone’s name a la ‘via gnucash-user’ before the
list address. It drives me batty some times.
Thus, I didn’t see it clearly.
Apologies for the noise.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:39 PM, D. wrote:
>
> Both appear on the list archives.
>
>
When I started programming, we would mail (US Postal Service) decks of punched
cards to MIT to be run on their machine. Then they would mail the printed
output back to us. This was in 1963.
Will
On 2020 Jul 7, at 07-07 12:31:38, david whiting wrote:
You beat me to it! I was going to make
Agreed, done.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:32 PM, Fred Bone
> wrote:
>
> On 07 July 2020 at 11:02, Adrien Monteleone said:
>
>> The wiki page has been revised with the following:
> [...]
>> 3. Send a ’Subscribe’ command directly to
>> gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org
>
Both appear on the list archives.
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-July/091938.html
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-July/091939.html
Original Message
From: Adrien Monteleone
Sent: Tue Jul 07 13:32:08 EDT 2020
To: gnucash-user
Now *that* is dedication! It sure beats laden swallows and smoke signals though.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:31 PM, david whiting
> wrote:
>
> You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's
> my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the
On 07 July 2020 at 11:02, Adrien Monteleone said:
> The wiki page has been revised with the following:
[...]
> 3. Send a ’Subscribe’ command directly to
> gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org
It would be more helpful still if it had
"=subscribe"
appended to the "mailto:; string in the href
The two messages about your changes to the intro text and stub page, and the
other where you thought those changes were rolled back. (quoted below)
Neither was sent to the list.
Nor was the message I’m replying to.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:15 PM, D. wrote:
>
>
You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's
my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the main
hospital in the country. To send email I think I used a simple text
client and saved emails to a floppy disk. I would then take them over
to the library where the guy
On 07 July 2020 at 12:09, David Carlson said:
> Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps? I had a Radio Shack model 100
Oooh, we used to *dream* of having 300 baud. We had to send our data one
bit at a time using Morse code tapped out on an old drainpipe.
I think I was lucky enough to set up on a 14.4kbps. I thought that was blazing
fast. (I used to manually write to my printer using my CoCoIII @ 300-2400) My
eventual bump to 56k was like being a kid in a candy store. Then came AOL and
very large phone bills! DSL and the web were heaven by
"those"?
Original Message
From: Adrien Monteleone
Sent: Tue Jul 07 12:53:18 EDT 2020
To: gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash - user: Google result
I see them still. And they might just do the trick.
Regards,
Adrien
p.s. -you forgot to send those to the list?
> On Jul
Well, I’ll be.
I never delved into it after I found out my ISP at the time was dropping their
server. I wasn’t really using it that much at the time anyway.
And yes, I was using Thunderbird as a reader. (I think it was just Mozilla News
or something back in ’93)
I also thought Google Groups
Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps? I had a Radio Shack model 100
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:27 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Yep, those were the days. I first cut my teeth on anything ‘internet’ via
> Usenet, before my first browser experience.
>
> Regards,
>
The ISP's view of NNTP is just port 119. Does yours really block it? Try this
in Terminal:
nc -z news.gmane.io 119
It should respond
Connection to news.gmane.io port 119 [tcp/nntp] succeeded!
Provided that works you should be able to find a news reader program --
Mozilla's Thunderbird mail
Frank,
Thanks for reformatting. That is much better than what I started with.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 11:02 AM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
> The wiki page has been revised with the following:
>
> 1. A sub-section with ’To Subscribe’ in bold so it will stand out.
>
>
I see them still. And they might just do the trick.
Regards,
Adrien
p.s. -you forgot to send those to the list?
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 11:45 AM, D. wrote:
>
> Looks like I was slow on the uptake, and my changes have been rolled back.
>
>
> Original Message
> From:
Looks like I was slow on the uptake, and my changes have been rolled back.
Original Message
From: "D. via gnucash-user"
Sent: Tue Jul 07 12:38:09 EDT 2020
To: Adrien Monteleone
Cc: David Reiser via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash - user: Google result
I have
I have modified the Mailing lists page (which opens ironically with the
introductory phrase "The Official Forum") to include a brief sentence
explicitly juxtaposing mailing lists from forums, with a new link to a simple
stub page at "GnuCash Forum" that refers back to the mailing lists page.
Yep, those were the days. I first cut my teeth on anything ‘internet’ via
Usenet, before my first browser experience.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 11:09 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> wrote:
>
> Am 07.07.20 um 16:54 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
>> If it is dead, we should remove
I followed the Gmane rabbit hole a bit.
It seems whomever is the admin is setting up a new server @ news.gmane.io
They claim they were going to have it up by January, but still no go best I can
tell.
However, it is an NNTP server - a.k.a. Usenet newsgroups.
Many ISPs have dropped support for
Am 07.07.20 um 16:54 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
> If it is dead, we should remove the reference.
It is not really dead, but you can currently only access it by a news
reader. Do you remember that kind of software?
Regards
Frank
___
gnucash-user
use this:
site:lists.gnucash.org search terms
to search *only* the mailing list server for ’search terms’
in your favorite search engine. (I think DuckDuckGo uses a ‘!’ syntax, you’d
have to research)
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 10:34 AM, Bruce Olson via gnucash-user
>
I saw that. It might do the trick.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 10:25 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> wrote:
>
> Am 07.07.20 um 16:26 schrieb David Carlson:
>> There has not been much warning lately about the actually very common
>> phishing technique of getting the malefactors '
I suppose I’ll test it out soon enough and we’ll find out!
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 10:26 AM, David Reiser wrote:
>
> And to make matters more confusing, those two options aren’t exclusive. Both
> are checked in my Edit>Attachments pop-out. I think I viewed the
>
The wiki page has been revised with the following:
1. A sub-section with ’To Subscribe’ in bold so it will stand out.
2. A list of three methods to subscribe which are:
1. Click the desired list in the ‘Existing Lists’ chart shown higher up the
page. (with an internal link to that section)
For What It's Worth Dept:
Although I use "google" as a verb all the time, in fact my default
search tool is the more privacy-centered DuckDuckGo
(https://duckduckgo.com). My search for gnucash forums (just the two
words, no quotes) came up with rather different results. Here are the
top five
This email string exists on Nabble and is current. I was able to search and
find it, but I didn’t try posting directly to Nabble. I have a separate account
and password for that. I have posted directly to Nabble for some time.
I originally joined Nabble not knowing better for the reasons stated
And to make matters more confusing, those two options aren’t exclusive. Both
are checked in my Edit>Attachments pop-out. I think I viewed the
“windows-friendly” as preventing resource forks in the old days and possibly
managing file name character sets at some point since then.
The annoying
Am 07.07.20 um 16:26 schrieb David Carlson:
> There has not been much warning lately about the actually very common
> phishing technique of getting the malefactors ' webpage listing above the
> legitimate webpage listing in searches. David, your observation is keen.
yep. The funny side with
Maybe so!
Maybe retitle the Mailman page that way?
Either or both might work eventually. (and you can ask various engines to
re-index though they usually do so fairly often anyway)
Possibly set the excerpt text of the other official hits to include ‘forum’
somewhere.
Or just let it ride...
Sure enough, it seems the last update set me to ‘Always Send Windows-Friendly
Attachments’ instead of ‘Always Insert Attachments at End of Message’. (I don’t
recall where the preference was originally when I set it years ago. It is now
in Edit > Attachments instead of in Mail > Preferences
We could make a Wiki page with the title "GnuCash Forum" :-D
-derek
On Tue, July 7, 2020 11:01 am, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Nope, it was an attachment. (or supposed to be) I made sure to put it at
> the end, and my mail.app is set to ‘attach’ rather than ‘inline’. I
> confess, mail.app could
Nope, it was an attachment. (or supposed to be) I made sure to put it at the
end, and my mail.app is set to ‘attach’ rather than ‘inline’. I confess,
mail.app could have done what it wanted though. It wouldn’t be the first time.
But here is the URL:
Nabble no longer works, at least for the GnuCash list.
I'm not sure to say, but I have enough to abandon my searches on Nabble.
--
Regards
Em ter., 7 de jul. de 2020 às 08:00, escreveu:
> *I'm responding to the below post...*
>
> "Liz, I tried to respond to a posting by David Cousens [via
Adrien,
On Tue, July 7, 2020 10:34 am, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
[snip]
> 3 - 5 (see attachment)
Any attachment you may have sent was eaten by the list; it was probably an
HTML-embedded image and not an actual "attachment"?
> #4 - THIS is a problem. That can be fixed by our webmaster. The page
Understood, thanks for all you do.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 9:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>
> It's a time and infrastructure question.
>
> First I need the time to upgrade code to a newer OS that contains MM3.
>
> Then I need to spend the time to get MM3 configured.
>
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 9:34 AM, Fred Bone
> wrote:
>
> You could always try clicking on the link. You get a pretty clear message
> to the effect that the address blog.gmane.org doesn't resolve.
>
> Trying to visit gmane.org gets me (eventually) an error message from
> Cloudflare.
Hi,
On Tue, July 7, 2020 10:09 am, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Derek,
>
> Is there any assistance needed to make that migration or is this more of
> an infrastructure question?
It's a time and infrastructure question.
First I need the time to upgrade code to a newer OS that contains MM3.
Then I
Crud.
I realize now the ‘unofficial’ link is to an old (2015) list topic using that
link title. That can’t easily be changed and maybe should not be.
The only way out then is trying to rank higher with more relevant page content.
(like ‘Official GnuCash Forum’ maybe, I don’t know)
Regards,
I’ll add the command option while adding the screenshots, thanks.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 9:18 AM, Fred Bone
> wrote:
>
> On 07 July 2020 at 8:00, Adrien Monteleone said:
>
>> I just added an explicit instruction in the Mailing List Membership
>> section of
On 07 July 2020 at 9:08, Adrien Monteleone said:
[...]
> also mentions ‘Gmane’ but I don’t know if
> that is still active, or if its users simply manage not to have problems
> so we don’t hear about them.)
You could always try clicking on the link. You get a pretty clear message
to the effect
I think David Whiting is on the right track.
People aren’t likely to search for ‘user list gnucash’ or anything ‘user list’.
They’ll search for ‘gnucash forum’, and then they’ll get Nabble results at the
top. (and yes, ≈99.9% of people do not read past the first few results,
much less the
It they are googling "gnucash forum" as noted in the other thread.
David
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, 15:14 Frank H. Ellenberger, <
frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 07.07.20 um 15:36 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> > This has *me* confused. If you subscribe via any link at
> >
There has not been much warning lately about the actually very common
phishing technique of getting the malefactors ' webpage listing above the
legitimate webpage listing in searches. David, your observation is keen.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 9:15 AM david whiting wrote:
> If you do a google search
On 07 July 2020 at 8:00, Adrien Monteleone said:
> I just added an explicit instruction in the Mailing List Membership
> section of https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists directing readers
> to https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo, click the desired list, and
> fill out the
Hi,
Am 07.07.20 um 15:36 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> This has *me* confused. If you subscribe via any link at
> https://lists.gnucash.org/ then I do not see how you could get an email
> that would link to Nabble. It sounds like you went in via Nabble the
> first time and tried to "subscribe" via
Derek,
Is there any assistance needed to make that migration or is this more of an
infrastructure question?
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 8:36 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> The GnuCash lists are, currently, just that: email lists.
>
> The GnuCash mailing lists do not have a
Hanlon’s razor might be a bit harsh, but it could simply be a PEBKAC issue.
We still haven’t found out how some users are apparently thinking they need
Nabble, at least not through the GnuCash wiki.
(yes, the wiki page mentions it, but doesn’t encourage its use, and the
reference is how to
Thanks for all the advice - Nabble is no longer going to be used by me. I
really thought it was an inherent part of the Gnucash approach but I am
happy to part with it.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:36 PM Derek Atkins wrote:
> Dear Adrian,
>
> On Tue, July 7, 2020 2:46 am, Adrian Holbrook wrote:
Thanks fo the advice. I was going to download the alpphvantage addon for
Excel but instead used gnc-fq-dump. I can get all the NYSE stocks but
nothing off the LSE using the suffix .L. Fails every time;.
Adrian
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:01 PM Chris Good wrote:
> Hi Adrian, how are you getting
Not familiar with Nabble, but what if...
...A user gives over their GnuCash email list credentials to Nabble at some
early stage, thinking they're just doing what's required to be on the list
(a Nabble-sent email with instructions, like a phishing scheme) and Nabble
takes that info and alters the
> This will change when (if) we migrate to mailman3, which includes the
> "hyperkitty" forum-like interface, but at this point in time we do not
> have a timeline for when this will happen.
mailman3 would put wheels on the sled.
___
gnucash-user mailing
Dear Adrian,
On Tue, July 7, 2020 2:46 am, Adrian Holbrook wrote:
> Liz, I tried to respond to a posting by David Cousens [via GnuCash] and it
> was rejected by Nabble. Could you pass on the following -
Instead of responding via Nabble, you should just respond via Email.
> I have also tried to
Thanks Frank, I’ll get those added today.
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 8:26 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> wrote:
>
> Adrien,
>
> now you have.
>
> Regards
> Frank
>
> Am 07.07.20 um 15:00 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
>> I would have added annotated screenshots for additional clarity, but it
>>
Adrien,
now you have.
Regards
Frank
Am 07.07.20 um 15:00 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
> I would have added annotated screenshots for additional clarity, but it seems
> I don’t have upload privileges. The text should be pretty clear anyway.
>
___
How are you ‘filtering by time period’ - all Vendor Reports are *for* a time
period.
Also, please clarify ‘beta’.
The current version of GnuCash, 4.0, contains a version of the Vendor (and
Customer) Reports that used to be in the Experimental menu in the later 3.x
versions. I just tested the
Nabble is not GnuCash. They are a site that provides access to one or more
mailing lists (of any subject) in a web forum format instead of having to use
regular e-mail that mailing lists use.
At some point in history ‘Hugo’ linked the gnucash-user list to Nabble. No one
seems to know if
The one I have been using to test GnuCash is Chase.
I may not have mentioned before: I am using a script I wrote using the ofxtools
library to download from a few different financial institutions. I am aware of
Chase's clientuid connection requirement and have a valid clientuid. Also, I
I just added an explicit instruction in the Mailing List Membership section of
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists directing readers to
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo, click the desired list, and fill
out the “Subscribing to” form.
I would have added annotated screenshots
David C.
I know what nabble is, and I know that nabble is not gnucash-user.
People who use nabble to experience gnucash-user as a forum should pay
attention to this fact, and place the blame for nabble's failings where they
belong: with nabble. *
Personally, I find nabble's penchant for
Debit and Credit totals are wrong - when filtering by period of time it shows
these totals for all the period.
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To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
Hi,
I have also lost access to Alphavantage stocks on LSE. It last worked on
24 June, but failed on the 25th. I have checked both my stocks with
gnc-fq-dump and neither work, so I have changed to Yahoo-json.
I'm using Gnucash 3.10 on Fedora 32.
Regards
Bob Dean
On 07/07/2020 12:01, Chris
*I'm responding to the below post...*
"Liz, I tried to respond to a posting by David Cousens [via GnuCash] and it
was rejected by Nabble. Could you pass on the following -
I have also tried to contact Hugo a number of times. In frustration I have
used a different email address and name and
Ok. The 3.11 release will have fixed some bugs there. Please copy to list
on replies.
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, 7:04 pm Mark Walters, wrote:
> Thanks Christopher, just checked and I'm running v3.4 in debian buster.
>
> On Tue, 7 Jul. 2020, 18:07 Christopher Lam,
> wrote:
>
>> 1. Please use the very
Hi Adrian, how are you getting quotes from excel? Have you got your
alphavantage API key specified in GnuCash preferences?
I suggest the next stage would be to test each of the stocks you want to
use Alphavantage for, with gnc-fq-dump.
Regards, Chris Good
On Tue., 7 Jul. 2020, 7:39 pm Adrian
I noticed that very sliderbar shortly after posting ;-) I was just
expecting right mouse click on column header area to be the method of
accessing column config - too much time with windows apps!
On 07/07/2020 02:45, Greg Feneis wrote:
I have found that usually, when the width of all the
Thanks Chris, I think my installation of Finance;;Quote is working fine as
I get quotes from other sources such as Morningstar and Yahoo JSON without
any problem. I think it must be an Alphavantage problem and the next stage
is to try and get quotes using excel and see if that works. In the short
Adrian:
I am another GnuCash user. I have been watching this email thread. I am
distressed at the difficulties you are having joining the GnuCash list.
The image you show, of email from Nabble asking you to confirm
subscription to the gnucash-user list, is definitely not what I would
expect
Message: 3
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:58:33 +0100
From: Adrian Holbrook
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Alpha Vantage problems
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
I have been using Alphvantage for about a year now to get quotes without any
problems - I had to
1. Please use the very latest gnucash 3.11 or 4.0; if there are still
issues please file bug in Bugzilla.
2. Budget for securities is error prone; currency and share exchanges are
complex and not proven to be reliable in budgeting module.
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, 3:43 pm Mark Walters, wrote:
> Hi
I registered as a new user on Gnucash mailing list. I then got an email
from Nabble that asked me to click on a link to confirm my membership - see
below
[image: image.png]
That takes me into Nabble and then I cannot post without contacting Hugo
sho does not respond!
Regards
Adrian
On Tue, Jul
Hi everyone,
I am trying to use Gnucash budgeting and have 2 issues. I have searched the
mailing list and google'd but had no luck.
1.Sign convention issues between budget, transactions and budget reports
I am budgeting for transfers to a liability (mortgage repayment). To make
the budget balance
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:46:23 +0100
Adrian Holbrook wrote:
> Liz, I tried to respond to a posting by David Cousens [via GnuCash]
> and it was rejected by Nabble. Could you pass on the following -
>
> I have also tried to contact Hugo a number of times. In frustration I
> have used a different
I have been using Alphvantage for about a year now to get quotes without
any problems - I had to add in the 15 second delay that was suggested to
stop it failing - but since then it has been 100% reliable. I normally
download around 50 prices at a time about once a week. The last successful
Liz, I tried to respond to a posting by David Cousens [via GnuCash] and it
was rejected by Nabble. Could you pass on the following -
I have also tried to contact Hugo a number of times. In frustration I have
used a different email address and name and registered again following the
instructions
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