Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-03-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, Am 25.03.24 um 05:13 schrieb David G. Pickett via gnucash-user: Wow, the mail handler seems to hate ascii text!  Is it a side effect of html email? I keep forgetting that to run stuff installed by flatpak you need flatpak magic like this: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli

Re: [GNC] How to import MT940 and/or online banking missing in 5.5

2024-03-19 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
he manual: https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-manual/trans-import.html#trans-import-aqbanking In your case the trace file https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile could contain a clue. Thanks again for your help HTH Frank On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM Frank H. Ellenberger < fran

Re: [GNC] How to import MT940 and/or online banking missing in 5.5

2024-03-16 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
I suspect, André is aWindows user and needs to upgrade to 5.5-1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/5.5/gnucash-5.5-1.setup.exe Regards Frank Am 16.03.24 um 08:07 schrieb john: MT940 and CAMT.053 imports are done with File>Import>Import Using AQBanking. Note

Re: [GNC] Thoughts on Online Quotes documentation

2024-01-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Simon, Am 30.12.23 um 19:31 schrieb ora...@sbutler.co.uk: I built GNUcash a couple of years back on a Raspberry pi, got the quotes working IIRC (I had definitely installed Finance::Quote and even applied an update to a new version), started trying to learn how to use it

Re: [GNC] Thoughts on Online Quotes documentation

2024-01-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Jim, I am sorry for the delay. I inserted my view inline. Am 25.12.23 um 01:14 schrieb Jim DeLaHunt: I recently had a problem[1] with getting online quotes from GnuCash 5.5 on macOS. It caused me to reflect on some shortcomings[2] of the GnuCash wiki page on Online Quotes[3]. This message

Re: [GNC] the url "ghelp:gnucash-guide" does not point to a valid page, Ubuntu 22

2023-11-27 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 26.11.23 um 00:45 schrieb Tom Balazs: When I click Help / Tutorial and Concepts Guide I get the error message "The URI ‘ghelp:gnucash-guide’ does not point to a valid page." Gnome's help browser dropped "ghelp:" some time ago. You can try "yelp help:gnucash-guide" instead, but I

Re: [GNC] Sorry, first post: frequent imports always requiring intervention

2023-09-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Steve, Am 29.09.23 um 03:59 schrieb Steve Freeman: Sorry, it was my first post in the listserv. I didn't know how exactly how it worked. Will not use default signature again and will use a fresh email to start a new thread. NP -original When I import transactions (using

Re: [GNC] NAV of pension fund from India

2023-08-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Paras, Am 18.08.23 um 18:29 schrieb john: On Aug 18, 2023, at 06:27, Paras Desai wrote: WE have a pension fund in india, which is run by various financial institution. These funds invest in various secerity same as mutual fund and such investment have NAV. Is there a possibility

[GNC] PayPal; was: Chase ofx support?

2023-08-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi all, Am 17.08.23 um 02:00 schrieb GWB: PayPal (as far as I remember) never had .ofx or .qfx, nor direct connect. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configure_Paypal Regards Frank ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] How to transfer all my accounts etc. to new computer. Linux version

2023-08-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Liz, Am 13.08.23 um 02:40 schrieb Liz: What does the FAQ say? https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_moved.2Frenamed_my_data_file_and_my_reports_disappeared._How_do_I_get_them_back.3F "Reports are stored in a separate file in the ~/.gnucash/books directory." Nope, no such directory $ ls

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 'Help' returns "Dcoument not found" but I have gnucash-docs installed

2023-07-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 24.07.23 um 20:31 schrieb R Losey: On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:48 AM David Carlson wrote: Chris, The local help doesn't work with that release in Linux, just go to the website https://gnucash.org/ or maybe try searching your hard drive manually. I have never tried that myself, so I don't

Re: [GNC] Price Quote IEXCloud

2023-04-20 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
er I don't see a way for a user to do this in GNUCash. Is there a way to configure GNUCash to select other F::Q modules? Regards, Michael On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 7:14 AM Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, nice to see you found a workaround. The answer to your or

Re: [GNC] Price Quotes

2023-04-20 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, nice to see you found a workaround. The answer to your original posting is in https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106571.html Regrds Frank Am 20.04.23 um 04:55 schrieb Steve Miller: Re the price quote issue w yahoo json, in the big picture is no biggie, cause

Re: [GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8

2023-03-31 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, perhaps the examples from https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Maintenance can help to analyze your situation. Which instances are installed, in which mode, … Regards Frank Am 31.03.23 um 19:47 schrieb David G. Pickett via gnucash-user: Yes, this is from my command line.  I am not into

Re: [GNC] Problems with Finance::Quote and GnuCash Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25)

2023-03-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 28.03.23 um 14:11 schrieb david.rom...@davidjromano.com: Hi Guys, I've just installed GnuCash Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25) on top of Finance::Quote 1.54 and though it seems to be picking up currencies correctly it is failing on equity prices. From the diagnostics

Re: [GNC] Update aqbanking on fedora

2023-03-12 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 12.03.23 um 08:55 schrieb Fred Tydeman: OS: Linux Fedora 36 When I do the command: dnf update I get this error message: Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package aqbanking-6.5.3-1.fc36.x86_64 - nothing provides libchipcard needed by aqbanking-6.5.4-1.fc36.x86_64

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-11 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Fred, Am 12.01.23 um 07:16 schrieb Fred Tydeman: Since I do not know where it will put that data, nor how to override, I declined. with the option --user it seems to install in my case below /home/frank/.local/share/flatpak/runtime/ HTH Frank

Re: [GNC] gnucash on debian

2023-01-09 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Anne, Am 10.01.23 um 01:10 schrieb Anne Possoz: And no matter what I tried, instead of CHF (for swiss francs) I had SFr. "SFr" is the local display symbol of the internatonal "CHF" symbol. To disable it: In Tools->Security Editor uncheck 'Show national Currencies' and the program will use

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote v1.54 Released

2022-12-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi all, recently C. Wehling has added the chapter https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote.html to thhe manual. It should explain it for all OSes. HTH Frank Am 28.12.22 um 19:52 schrieb Murugan Muruganandam: hi bruce thanks, how can i update 1.54 in windows Saludos

Re: [GNC] Is "Transaction -> Add Reversing Transaction" on menu okay for a refund?

2022-12-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 26.12.22 um 19:22 schrieb R Losey: I suspect that the "correct" way is whatever works for you and meets your needs. Better you consult a CPA if you want to use it for your tax dclaration or other publications. As an example in DE such informal corrections are not allowed. instead you

Re: [GNC] Settings not respected

2022-12-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 26.12.22 um 09:51 schrieb Jeff: On 24/12/2022 22:26, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Under Linux the prefs are stored using dconf: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GSettings Thanks! dconf was updated on the 17th, but I'd used it daily since then, and when I first had

Re: [GNC] Settings not respected

2022-12-24 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 24.12.22 um 20:06 schrieb Jeff: Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply. On 24/12/2022 17:57, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: The "what happened" is obvious, no longer accessing the files where this information is stored (note recent discussions about where these are with regard to back-up).

Re: [GNC] Do I need to set up multiple bank accounts for different currencies?

2022-12-22 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 22.12.22 um 22:38 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts has a link to a tutorial, but the link is broken. Thanks to Peters prompt answer https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2022-December/046472.html the links are fixed now. Regards Frank

Re: [GNC] Colum headers missing on all accounts

2022-12-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 04.12.22 um 22:06 schrieb Scott Traurig: I was rearranging the sizes of the columns in one of the account ledgers and now both the Transfer and Reconcile ("R") column labels are gone. They are only visible, if the cursor is in a split÷check your view mode, too. The main line of a

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Accounts for UK Vat need updating since the UK left the European Union

2022-11-23 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 23.11.22 um 09:44 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby: On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 04:16, David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: Presumably, Dr. Kirby will still have transactions in those accounts, in which case hiding the accounts and making them placeholders would be the proper

[GNC] Fwd: Accounts for UK Vat need updating since the UK left the European Union

2022-11-22 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Forgot to CC Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: [GNC] Accounts for UK Vat need updating since the UK left the European Union Datum: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:13:45 +0100 Von: Frank H. Ellenberger An: Dr. David Kirkby Hello David, Am 22.11.22 um 13:38 schrieb Dr. David

Re: [GNC] Create New Gnucash File From Old One

2022-11-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 09.11.22 um 02:51 schrieb Joseph Hesse: When I tried to open the exported data file I got the error message "No suitable backend was found" That usually means you did not open your data file, but e.g. the metadata file books/.gcm https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations

Re: [GNC] Create New Gnucash File From Old One

2022-11-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 09.11.22 um 20:45 schrieb Joseph Hesse: Doing this allowed me to go to the next screen.  At this point I am stuck.  I am supposed to Match Import and GnuCash accounts but no amount of trial and error allowed me to go to the next screen.  How do I proceed? Are there still unresolved

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash Wiki: Add Stock Page: Screenshots Added

2022-10-12 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Thanks, David! :-) Am 12.10.22 um 09:01 schrieb David T.: Frank, I've just rewritten the page extensively, and in the course of doing so, I added back your category and headers. ⁣David T. ​ On Oct 12, 2022, 2:31 AM, at 2:31 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: Am 12.10.22 um 01:

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash Wiki: Add Stock Page: Screenshots Added

2022-10-11 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 12.10.22 um 01:34 schrieb R Losey: In GnuCash 4.12 on my Mac, I don't have a "Type" field -- it's called "Name Space" instead... I thought one needed to put the correct exchange there, but now I'm not sure. Before we had used in different GUI elements different names for the same thing.

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash Wiki: Add Stock Page: Screenshots Added

2022-10-11 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 12.10.22 um 01:17 schrieb Geoff: I have reverted all of my changes. … and my also. :-( Thanks Frank ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Tutorial & Guide: Typo correction

2022-09-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 25.09.22 um 23:08 schrieb David Cousens: The simplest method which won't require editing is to create a bug report on the documentation. See the main GnuCash web page for how to raise a bug report and then select the documentation David Cousens … or try

[GNC] help: vs. ghelp: was: Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 06.09.22 um 06:01 schrieb john: On Sep 5, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi, Am 05.09.22 um 22:27 schrieb Geert Janssens: Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john: This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612 I discovered while researching

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, Am 05.09.22 um 23:26 schrieb David Cousens: This probably indicates the Ubuntu developers haven't solved the problem. They usually only copy the debian packages and for that see Johns mail https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-September/102729.html Regards Frank

Re: [GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

2022-09-05 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 05.09.22 um 22:27 schrieb Geert Janssens: Op maandag 5 september 2022 19:09:06 CEST schreef john: This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798612 I discovered while researching this that yelp v.42 just dropped support for the ghelp: scheme. help:gnucash-help and

Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

2022-08-16 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 16.08.22 um 13:03 schrieb flywire: btw A lot (the majority?) ofhttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Published_tools are so old they won't work. as it is a wiki you can just update it. The page would probably also deserve more links from other pages so that it is easier found. Regards

Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

2022-08-15 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 14.08.22 um 18:33 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: Check the 'Using GnuCash' page perhaps. And for tools https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Published_tools Regards Frank Regards, Adrien On 8/14/22 9:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: P.S. Is there a spot on the Wiki to list things like Geoff's

Re: [GNC] Fetch rate crashing gnucash

2022-08-15 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Samantha, usually Bruce sends teh announcement to the list. The last has been https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-July/101772.html Regards Frank Am 15.08.22 um 17:24 schrieb Samantha Payn: Thanks Frank! I only joined the list just now so didn't see John's earlier post.

Re: [GNC] Fetch rate crashing gnucash

2022-08-15 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Samantha, John mentioned already this morning the by alphavantage broken online update of currencies: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-August/102424.html We track it as https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798599 and a fix is pending at finance-quote:

Re: [GNC] Request for two new features in GnuCash

2022-08-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 07.08.22 um 03:04 schrieb Eric Hammond: > The second is the ability to pay bills from more than one source. Example I > purchase an oscilloscope and pay for it with a cash incentive from the > company and a bank transfer for the rest. My solution at the present is not > pretty, nor

Re: [GNC] MariaDB? .gnucash folder

2022-07-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Thomas, Am 28.07.22 um 17:36 schrieb Thomas Forrester: > First is > that the saved report configurations did not come across even though the > .gnucash folder was copied over per the docs to the same location on the > other computer. See

Re: [GNC] Online Help manual CSV import section is out of date

2022-07-27 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, perhaps you can do it slightly different. I agree to remove all the technical details. But you should insert a small tutorial with: Import in small chunks. Assign the proper account while importing to teach teach Bayes. Verify your data after each import. Save often! Other user

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash Windows Bundle 4.11-1 Released

2022-07-14 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
David, and the next line says > But avoid cross posting. Sometimes announcements are sent to several lists. > If you answer, remove all lists but one from TO: and CC:. Frank Am 14.07.22 um 11:10 schrieb D: > Frank, > > The announcements are sent both to -users and -devel. Since the guidance

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash Windows Bundle 4.11-1 Released

2022-07-14 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Allan, as this is a user question it should have been sent to gnucash-users only. Yes, the fix did not happen in GnuCash itself, but its bundled dependencies: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/commit/03f7f35342d717c1a137e82ad4d8f4973fa4f934 Regards Frank Am 14.07.22 um 07:31

[GNC] Fwd: GnuCash 4.11 Release: Menu changes

2022-06-27 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Forgot to cc the list … Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.11 Release: Menu changes Datum: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:31:16 +0200 Von: Frank H. Ellenberger An: Gyle McCollam I have it. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/gui-acct-tree.html#AccTree

[GNC] Translators: String Freeze and msgmerge done

2022-06-20 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
… and finally the msgmerge is done. You can now review your translation at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/gnucash/ Notes: We have for now disabled the messages from the new assistant-stock-transaction because they still need some massaging. ;-) Else you would have had ~100 new, but

Re: [GNC] Language settings

2022-06-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
you: the Spanish speaking part of the GnuCash community. Am 14.06.22 um 02:53 schrieb rmom...@gmail.com: > Not sure I understand your comment, "None of you provided it." Something I > should do here? ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Language settings

2022-06-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hola, Am 14.06.22 um 00:44 schrieb rmom...@gmail.com: > Spanish was not on the language > list, never has been. That is only the language of the InnoSetup installer, where spanish is missing. None of you provided it. If interested: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows_Installer_Translation So

Re: [GNC] Keyboard shortcuts problem with v4.10

2022-05-22 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
>From https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798515> --- Comment #9 from John Ralls --- > Looks like I jumped the gun and retrieved the link before it had actually > updated. 4.10-97 was yesterday morning's regular nightly. > >

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-05-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Phil, before I start: it seems the mail server rejected your mail because of the for it unknown attachment. Perhaps Derek will comment on that later. Thunderbird did not display your attachment. I had to trick it to display it in LibreOffice. David is right, just register your wiki account

Re: [GNC] Importing Accounts with non-English Characters

2022-05-09 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
I fear Windows 7 is too old and also no longer mainained by MS. Am 09.05.22 um 20:01 schrieb viking...@san.rr.com: > I am using Windows 7 Is there such a setting in WIN7? I haven’t been able > to find it. > ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Importing Accounts with non-English Characters

2022-05-09 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Another "workaround" is described in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782850#c11 That "fixing of Windows" has only to be done once, not for each file. Perhaps I should have sent you directly to that bug instead of ssending a link that again links there. Regards Frank Am 09.05.22 um

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-04-30 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi together, Am 23.04.22 um 20:04 schrieb David T. via gnucash-user: > Phillip, > > Good to hear that someone is interested in working on the documentation! Christian Wehling is permanently working on the manual (help) starting from translating to German and backporting improvements to the

Re: [GNC] Minor issue that's becoming an irritant...

2022-04-30 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, please watch Bug 797070 - With multiple monitors, menus only open in one monitor, regardless of which monitor GnuCash window is located https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797070 Regards Frank Am 29.04.22 um 19:10 schrieb Christopher Chase: > Hi, > > I'm a brand new user to GnuCash.

Re: [GNC] Fails under newest Ubuntu

2022-04-29 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Steve, if this is your self-build GnuCash, you will have to rebuilt it after updating your -devel packages. According https://repology.org/project/icu/versions Ubuntu updated to 70.1 while older versions used 67.1. Regards Frank Am 28.04.22 um 23:06 schrieb Stephen M. Butler: > Just

Re: [GNC] Help with GnuCash's 'help'

2022-04-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Chris, The program displaying help depends on your OS. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/Help-Window.html Your used version can also be relevant. Regards Frank Am 26.04.22 um 17:35 schrieb Chris Green: > Maybe I'm missing something obvious but when I search for something in >

Re: [GNC] Flathub does not install Gnucash ver. 4.10 flatpak, but only installs lower ver. 3.7

2022-04-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 26.04.22 um 14:13 schrieb parag puranik: > There is no output of both the commands, The screen of terminal looks like > ::~$ flatpak remotes -d >fp-state > :~$ flatpak search gnucash >>fp-state > :~$ Right, it is in the file fp-state in your working directory. I had expected you would

Re: [GNC] Flathub does not install Gnucash ver. 4.10 flatpak, but only installs lower ver. 3.7

2022-04-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Flatpak tries to be smart. So the interesting parts of 2 and 3 were shortened away. Can you redo them in a full screen window or by redirecting into a file like: flatpak remotes -d >fp-state flatpak search gnucash >>fp-state Regards Frank Am 26.04.22 um 13:27 schrieb parag puranik: >

Re: [GNC] Why does an Equity account have to be of Currency type?

2022-04-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, just for completeness … Am 25.04.22 um 19:17 schrieb Michael or Penny Novack: > The fact that other people in other lands understand $ to stand for USD > is irrelevant to island life. The origin of the word is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolar and the symbol

Re: [GNC] Flathub does not install Gnucash ver. 4.10 flatpak, but only installs lower ver. 3.7

2022-04-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, please send the output of the following commands: flatpak --supported-arches flatpak remotes -d flatpak search gnucash Perhaps we can so get a clue of your problem. Regards Frank Am 25.04.22 um 15:23 schrieb parag puranik via gnucash-user: > The first Flathub release (for 32 bit OS) was

Re: [GNC] Tip of the day - dates

2022-04-23 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 23.04.22 um 19:30 schrieb David T. via gnucash-user: > I don't know what the tip currently says. The full information is placed in > https://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/txns-shortcuts1.html. Honestly, > I think tips are meant to suggest possibilities, rather than give exhaustive

Re: [GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

2022-04-22 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, just forcompleteness Am 21.04.22 um 22:31 schrieb John Ralls: > Linux has had extended attributes since 2002, but they never really caught on > and the XDG MIME database relies on file globs--which for practical purposes > means file extensions--to determine what program to launch when a

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Tommy, Am 08.04.22 um 22:22 schrieb Tommy Trussell: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 6:49 PM John Ralls wrote: > >> Tommy, >> >> Do *you* have any problems displaying reports on the 4.10 flatpak? >> > > Only briefly. On the first run after the update to GnuCash 4.10, some > reports worked, some

Re: [GNC] Loss one of my file

2022-04-01 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Just for clarification: Adrien is right, but this is a macos specific issue. Regards Frank Am 01.04.22 um 01:05 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > You can't double-click the file to open it, if that is what you are > doing. GnuCash will always open the last used file. > > Use File > Open > and then

Re: [GNC] Can I Have Wiki Edit Account Please?

2022-03-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Geoff, you found a wrong link—undetected for almost 7 years. It is fixed now, so you can try again, Regards Frank Am 08.03.22 um 06:35 schrieb Geoff: > Folks > > According to https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Contributing_to_GnuCash > > "Contributors must <> in order to work on the wiki. > The

Re: [GNC] Company name on a receipt and Balance Sheet

2022-02-15 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Ian, always CC the user list! Am 15.02.22 um 15:54 schrieb Ian D Henry: > Frank, > > Thank you for your prompt reply. You've solved the Balance Sheet > problem but the receipt still has no company name on it. What do you mean > by "enabling it in report options"? > > Ian If you are in a

Re: [GNC] Company name on a receipt and Balance Sheet

2022-02-15 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Ian, did you set File->Properties->Business->Company Name? Perhaaps you have to enable it in Report Options, too. HTH Frank Am 15.02.22 um 15:34 schrieb Ian D Henry: > When I use the Balance Sheet in Assets and Liabilities tab or Receipt under > the Business tab, the name of the business is

Re: [GNC] PDF creation option

2022-02-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 08.02.22 um 22:55 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > Not without crafting a custom report in Scheme. When did you the last time look in the stylesheets? One is named CSS-based, but also the default stylesheet can load a background image. All other stylesheets have an Images tab in their

Re: [GNC] Flatpak 4.9-2 Online Quotes not working (name resolution issue?)

2022-02-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Guille, you can see the changes at https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/commits/master They contain: org.gnome.Platform 41 instead of 40; … HTH Frank P.S. I wonder why nobody else reported problems as the changes were tested before in the nighlies:

Re: [GNC] How to properly import a csv with the correct settings.

2022-01-28 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
David, ISTR you had once improved https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-import.html W. you are interested on the sections containing "Match". Regards Frank Am 28.01.22 um 04:55 schrieb davidcousen...@gmail.com: > It looks OK but the test is how it actually imports. > > If you

Re: [GNC] Idiots guide to building GNC 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04LTS

2022-01-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, Am 08.01.22 um 23:24 schrieb davidcousen...@gmail.com: > I can no longer find David Whiting's script in the Wiki. It was attached to a > section that dealt with distribution specific issues which now appears to be > unlinked from the main build on linux page. I felt,

Re: [GNC] A good tutorial on connecting online to my bank accounts?

2022-01-05 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
That threads are usually on https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-de/ and https://mailman.aqbanking.de/listinfo/aqbanking-user Regards Frank Am 05.01.22 um 15:30 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > Cool! Sorry, I didn't think this was possible based on past threads. > > Regards, > Adrien

Re: [GNC] A good tutorial on connecting online to my bank accounts?

2022-01-05 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Adrien, Am 04.01.22 um 21:59 schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > GnuCash cannot initiate transactions. You are limited to syncing > previous transactions from the institution to GnuCash. > > Regards, > Adrien please do not tell false facts! With the * german protocol FinTS you can initiate

Re: [GNC] A repository for user-contributed files

2022-01-04 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello David, Am 04.01.22 um 10:48 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 22:08, Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > >> But I >> guess if they are replying to the digest and they copy-paste the >> subject, as they should, then it will appear un-threaded. > >

Re: [GNC] AqBanking Online Set Up

2022-01-03 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 04.01.22 um 05:22 schrieb john: > EBICS is also German only. No, European: AT, CH, DE, FR. But at least in DE only offered for the (more expensive) business accounts. Regards Frank ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] A repository for user-contributed files

2022-01-03 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
I found it on the still unlinked (=unpublished?) page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Overview. As I am not satisfied by all the unmaintable redundancies, suboptimal structures, … I outlined some relations, constrains, … But then I got distracted. Do you think parts are usable and

Re: [GNC] A repository for user-contributed files

2022-01-02 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 03.01.22 um 01:55 schrieb D via gnucash-user: > Actually, Getting Help links there. As do a couple of other random pages. > the full list: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Published_tools It is also in the categories Usage & Tools. Regards Frank

[GNC] Encoding;was: Bitcoin …

2021-12-10 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, how did you set the encoding of your email client? I am using utf-8 and see no issues. Regards Frank Am 10.12.21 um 22:52 schrieb Colin Arndt: > I see those ? marks all the time, it’s not just you. > > I'd guess the mailman system either doesn’t support characters in your > message… or

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why not add BTC?

2021-12-10 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Colin, Am 10.12.21 um 19:15 schrieb Colin Arndt: > Do I need permission from someone in particular to update the wiki as > suggested earlier, or can I just go ahead and do it? Afterwards I can post > here for review if desired. it's a wiki, just go for it. Before you start, you should know

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why notadd BTC?

2021-12-09 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Colin, Am 10.12.21 um 03:37 schrieb Colin Arndt: > Considering this is an issue that regularly comes up on the list, it might > save everyone some time if there were a statement or section on the Wiki. > (Just searched around and didn’t find one). EExcellent idea! IMHO you should name the

Re: [GNC] Trouble with gnc-fq-dump

2021-12-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Daniel, I get: > gnc-fq-dump -v alphavantage IBM Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses: symbol: IBM <=== required date: 12/08/2021 <=== recommended currency: USD <=== required last: 123.0200 <=\ nav:

Re: [GNC] Suggestion to permit entry of EORI number

2021-12-07 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, just the official link: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/customs-procedures-import-and-export/customs-procedures/economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori_en Click on "en" and select your preferred EU language. It is your "client ID" at the customs

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Reminder: String Freeze

2021-12-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
e 19th. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Dec 2, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger >> wrote: >> >> Dear contributors, >> >> I just had a look into https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule: >> >> Release String Freeze

Re: [GNC] Backports in Ubuntu? was: Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Mike, Am 03.12.21 um 22:19 schrieb Mike Brady: > Have been following this thread because I use Linux Mint, which is based > on the LTS version of Ubuntu. Yes, the GnuCash version in the Ubuntu LTS > repository is way out of date (3.8). : AFAIK the Ubuntu family is a branch of the Debian

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, Am 03.12.21 um 20:20 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby: > It depends on the effort to recompile on Linux. If building on linux is > relatively painless, then I will upgrade if I decide to use the software - > I'm still a bit undecided on that. for people uncomfortable with building on linux we

Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch

2021-11-30 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Elmar, Am 30.11.21 um 13:53 schrieb Elmar: > > > On 11/30/21 7:51 AM, Fross, Michael wrote: >> Don’t forget the “run” command. In your paste it was missing.  See >> Geert’s command. >> > Oops - here's better.  I got messed up first with flaptak, instead of > flatpak :) > >> ets@Shinobi ~ $

Re: [GNC] Can one handle electricity?

2021-11-30 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 30.11.21 um 11:17 schrieb Dr. David Kirkby: > I wonder if there's a sensible way of handling electricity costs in > GnuCash. Currently I read the meter each month, and take the price of the > electricity that month. Obviously the difference between two readings of > the electric meter tells

Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch

2021-11-27 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Elmar, At first, yiu should not hijack other threads. For a new thread, do *not* respond to another mail, but create a new mail to the list. Am 25.11.21 um 18:42 schrieb Elmar: > Flatseal also reacts the same way, i.e. does not open, although if > flatpak is really isntalled it should at

Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Chris, Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > is at the moment. > > While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no > account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an >

Re: [GNC] YellowNet, EBICS, …

2021-11-27 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi all, my intension was to CC aqbanking-user instead of gnucash-user. Sorry for the noise. Regards Frank Am 27.11.21 um 02:37 schrieb Martin Preuss: > Moin, > > Am 27.11.21 um 01:11 schrieb Frank H. Ellenberger: > [...] >> YellowNet war wohl die Schnittstelle für die Schweiz

[GNC] YellowNet, EBICS, …

2021-11-26 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Tach zusammen, in Zusammenhang mit Stefan's "SEPA Übertrag" https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1199 bin ich über einige anscheinend veraltete Kommentare in GnuCash gestolpert, die wir nun bereinigen wollen. Bevor wir etwas falsch verstanden habe, gedachte ich, nochmal nachzufragen.

Re: [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

2021-11-21 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
atements of PayPal are downloaded by myself, as I do not use >>> AQbanking. >>> * Oh, neither a restart of GNUCash did do the trick, nor a full >>> reboot of my computer. >>> >>> Feel free to ask for more. >>> >>> 86ul &

Re: [GNC] My MacOS Finance::Quote Successful Tweaks

2021-11-16 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Ken, Am 16.11.21 um 02:32 schrieb Ken Farley: > Okay, so I put my findings into the Wiki. Turns out it's relatively > easy. Congrats! > Hopefully if something I wrote is too vague or wrong someone > correct it. The toughest part was figuring out where to put the stuff. Right, we have now

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 - flatpak cannot recognize second internal HDD & USB Flashdrive

2021-11-12 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 09.11.21 um 11:57 schrieb Geert Janssens: > I believe --system refers to which installation of the flatpak you want to > use and hence > depends on how you installed the package. And it will only be required if you > have both a > system-wide and a user-only gnucash flatpak installed.

Re: [GNC] RFE: GnuCash's File> Properties menubar item

2021-11-11 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 10.11.21 um 18:18 schrieb Geert Janssens: > For that reason GnuCash has opted to show the full path location in the > status bar when you > hover your mouse over one of the history menu items. I could not find any docu about it. Is anybody volunteering to add a "Tip of the day" for it?

Re: [GNC] Error importing QIF file

2021-11-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Parag, Am 08.11.21 um 09:04 schrieb parag puranik via gnucash-user: > Just a FYI - my past experience in a massive import of over 10K+ transaction > via QIF has been that the wild west of date format used by other apps, > specifically multiple formats in the same file,  trips up GNC as it

[GNC] Wiki Editing

2021-11-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Ken, Am 08.11.21 um 18:57 schrieb Ken Farley: > I would think that someone updating such a thing would need to: > (a) Have the proper credentials. I assume this but know nothing about > Wiki editing. At the end of the page header is a link "login". On the opening page you can also request for

[GNC] flatpak parameters

2021-11-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
David. Am 08.11.21 um 11:59 schrieb David H: > I was trying "flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash > --filesystem=/media//" but obviously the --filesystem option was in > the wrong place :-) before org.… are the params for flatpak and behind that for gnucash. Cheers Frank

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.7 - flatpak cannot recognize second internal HDD & USB Flashdrive

2021-11-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am 08.11.21 um 10:37 schrieb David H: > Also I'm not sure whether this setting > will be persisted through terminal sessions or upgrades to Gnucash - you > might have to do some reading to determine that but it seems to persist > between terminal sessions at least ;-) > > sudo flatpak

Re: [GNC] My MacOS Finance::Quote Successful Tweaks

2021-11-08 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Ken, Am 07.11.21 um 16:21 schrieb Ken Farley: > Hope it works out for you. I noticed there are sporadic questions > about this kind of thing and thought it might be nice to have a place > where all the stuff that worked for someone (me, in this case) is > spelled out in a straightforward

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