Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Liz
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:45:20 -0500 Ken Farley wrote: > The files you want to open have names of the format " Name>.gnucash". You need to find those files, without the .gcm or any > Name> > other suffix. A very old Gnucash file will not have a suffix. Examples Current file name

Re: [GNC] Reconciling Accounts, Month 6, but not Months 1-5?

2023-11-12 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Further to these answers, you could simply select the June statement, enter that closing balance listed when prompted, and start by selecting everything prior to that month's statement. Then continue reconciling June as normal. If the closing balance in GnuCash matches the statement balance

Re: [GNC] Reconciling Accounts, Month 6, but not Months 1-5?

2023-11-12 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Derek answered your first question. To answer your last question, Yes, you can simply mark items as cleared if you know that is their status. When you are ready to do reconciliation from the beginning of your book *for that account* to whatever your first closing date might be, then most of

Re: [GNC] Reconciling Accounts, Month 6, but not Months 1-5?

2023-11-12 Thread Derek Atkins
In short, no. reconciliation is always "from the beginning of time to " -derek On Sun, November 12, 2023 6:06 pm, Tom Balazs wrote: > Is it possible to reconcile April-May if I have not reconciled March-April > or February-March? > > I guess I'm asking because I used the GnuCash Reconcile

[GNC] Reconciling Accounts, Month 6, but not Months 1-5?

2023-11-12 Thread Tom Balazs
Is it possible to reconcile April-May if I have not reconciled March-April or February-March? I guess I'm asking because I used the GnuCash Reconcile featurer and it appears to me that I can't. That seems strange to me. I just want GnuCash to give me a kind of a worksheet where it shows me

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 09:18 Phil Reynolds wrote: ... What OS are you running? I have not seen any complete or partial path name to the files you mention you are looking for. If you are running Linux or MacOS, 'updatedb', 'locate', and 'git' are good friends to have. I you are running

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 5.4 process stays running after closing Gnucash

2023-11-12 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Thanks, David. Greatly appreciated. Ruaraidh On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 19:26, sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > That's a known bug that's been fixed. The fix will appear in the next > release. > > David T. > On Nov 11, 2023, at 9:29 PM, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton <%3Ca>@gmail.com

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:45:20 -0500 Ken Farley wrote: > The files you want to open have names of the format " Name>.gnucash". You need to find those files, without the .gcm or any > Name> > other suffix. Ah, all understood now. Unfortunately it did turn out to be the wrong book. I know what

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 11/12/2023 8:45 AM, Ken Farley wrote: I'm using Gnucash on Mac OS, but I would think the file locations are used for the same functions. The directory for "books" on my machine is "~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books". Different location, same purpose. This directory contains a

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Mark Penner via gnucash-user
On Sunday, November 12, 2023 7:17:21 AM CST Phil Reynolds wrote: > "No suitable backend was found" If it is a SQLite file, you need to have `libdbd-sqlite3` installed. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Ken Farley
I'm using Gnucash on Mac OS, but I would think the file locations are used for the same functions. The directory for "books" on my machine is "~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books". Different location, same purpose. This directory contains a bunch of files with names like

Re: [GNC] Old book not opening

2023-11-12 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 10:53:44 -0500 Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 11/10/2023 8:55 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: > > I am about to start using gnucash again after giving up a few years > > ago (for personal reasons). However, I want to reopen my old > > accounts to get the figure I was owed. I