Re: [GNC] Newbie Questions

2024-05-23 Thread R Losey
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:45 AM Joe Padavic wrote: > I have a few questions: > > Is there a way to reset the splash page? > I have Quickbook 2021 Pro. > There aren't any QIF files, but I can create IIF files. Can these be used > for importing into GNUCASH? > If so, should I create individual

Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

2024-05-17 Thread R Losey
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:27 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2024-05-17 07:44, R Losey wrote: > > I hope you know where that file is stored. One > > way to find it is to open the old GnuCash and then under File, choose > "Save >

Re: [GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

2024-05-17 Thread R Losey
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 6:21 AM Gary Slade wrote: > I need to transfer Gnu Cash data from my old Mac to my new Mac. How do I > locate the data? > > Regards, > > Gary Slade > Pioneer, CA > > Gary - the financial transactions are kept in one file; generally called .gnucash. Where this is stored is

Re: [GNC] Moving from GnuCash 4.8 to GnuCash 5.5 - any issues likely to bite me?

2024-05-13 Thread R Losey
The Check & Repair used to be slow (minutes); somewhere along the way, there was a major improvement; it is so fast (less than a second) on my network file with 6+ years of data that I can barely see the progress bar. So, it may be running; just very, very quickly. On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 9:41 

Re: [GNC] Delay during data entry

2024-05-02 Thread R Losey
keeps up > > with my slow typing. It is still going to take a while to revise my > > procedures to get away from GnuCash release 4.8 and have the level of > > hardware and software redundancy that I want to keep backups, etc. > > > > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM

Re: [GNC] Delay during data entry

2024-05-01 Thread R Losey
I don't see any delays on either Windows (Win 10, 16G RAM), or my M1 iMac (Sonoma 14.4.1; 16G RAM), or or Linux (Ubunto 22.04LTS, 8G RAM). In all cases, the file is stored on my NAS with spinning hard drives (that is, not an SSD), and I am saving to a compressed file (I've not changed this since I

Re: [GNC] Use 4.14 and 5.6 on same file (at different times)

2024-04-29 Thread R Losey
on, Apr 29, 2024 at 1:55 PM R Losey wrote: > >> I just a very similar question a little while ago (I ran 4.x on Linux and >> 5.x on Windows & iMac). At that time, they recommended that I use the same >> major version everywhere, so I used flatpack to bring my Linux syst

Re: [GNC] Use 4.14 and 5.6 on same file (at different times)

2024-04-29 Thread R Losey
I just a very similar question a little while ago (I ran 4.x on Linux and 5.x on Windows & iMac). At that time, they recommended that I use the same major version everywhere, so I used flatpack to bring my Linux system up to 5.x. On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 11:07 AM Fred Tydeman wrote: > Will I

Re: [GNC] Setting up gnucash / stocks

2024-04-27 Thread R Losey
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 9:29 AM Wolfgang Paul Rauchholz < wp.rauchh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello community! > > I am running the latest gnucash under Fedorca Core. > Finance::Quote is installed and I get quotes for Funds and Stocks. > > EUR is the System Currency. The Stock Quotes are in USD > >

Re: [GNC] Nothing Wrong

2024-04-24 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM Jim Muchow wrote: > I want you maintainers and developers to know that I run GnuCash just > fine and don't have problems. I very much appreciate such a great free > product. Thanks. > > I kinda wanted to make this an annual thing but I have not been > consistent

Re: [GNC] Recommend Accounting Books

2024-04-22 Thread R Losey
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:11 AM Jonathan Drews wrote: > I am opening a fabric store in early May and want to use GnuCash to > keep track of my sewing fabric sales and inventory. It's pretty > modest. About 280 individual items. Are there any examples of > *.gnucash files I can use as a

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread R Losey
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > If the events are fixed, such as "Memorial Day Celebration" and > "Independence Celebration", you could make an expense category and then > have sub-categories for it. I assume that you can run P on

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread R Losey
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 8:44 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> d) What you can;t do is have it both ways. Traditional double entry > >> bookkeeping allows only one tree structure for the CoA. To get it > >> different in different reports you would have to BOTH

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:26 AM Oleander via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account

Re: [GNC] Is anyone else getting these malicious e-mails?

2024-04-15 Thread R Losey
On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 9:58 PM Michael DeBusk wrote: > I've gotten two or three obviously-malicious e-mails pretending to be > from this mailing list. The From: line lists the sender as "Gnucash > User" but the address is not this one. I fear a spammer (or worse) has > subscribed and is

Re: [GNC] FYI Web tables, CSV, prices info and inquiry

2024-04-15 Thread R Losey
I'm one of the silent ones: I read the report with some interest, but I've had so many issues with having GnuCash get prices that I just don't bother anymore. I just allow it to update as I do transactions in accounts... and there are ways to look at price history online. The only other reason I

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-11 Thread R Losey
k check processing equipment would not hold it off. > > -Original Message- > From: R Losey > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:31 AM > To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date) > > On Tue, Apr 9,

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
ly, you can just keep it on your books as-is, always leaving a > cushion to avoid overdrafts. When you die, the account will be closed > and the funds returned to your heirs. The check could not be honored at > that point. (hopefully - better to get legal advice on that one!) > > >

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
ed and should not be necessarily considered as being applicable > in any given situation. > Specific accounting advice relevant to your jurisdiction should always > be obtained from a qualified/licensed accountant in your jurisdiction. > > David Cousens > > > > On Mon, 2024-0

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 4:37 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 4/9/2024 12:50 PM, R Losey wrote: > > Thanks; I wasn't sure if those (cash vs accrual) were the correct terms. > > > > Legally, are you saying that if I write a chec

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 8:42 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2024-04-09 01:19, David Carlson wrote: > > Nearly every time [the bank's] list doesn't match my list, the > > difference is precisely the difference between when I wrote the check or > > when I initiated

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
es the opportunity to catch someone > > else's errors. (they *do* happen) > > > > This is a similar question of entering your own transactions as they > > occur, or just downloading from the bank and importing. > > > > It is a personal choice, but can have other

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
, April 08, 2024 6:50 PM > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date) > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:11:37 -0500 > R Losey wrote: > > > Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always > > dated a transaction on the

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
You then reconcile the two. (which does *not* involve changing dates) > > > > Simply copying what the bank has misses the opportunity to catch someone > > else's errors. (they *do* happen) > > > > This is a similar question of entering your own transactions as they > >

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
. > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 23:12, R Losey wrote: > >> Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always dated a >> transaction on the date I wrote the check; similarly, when entering credit >> card transactions, I use the date that I actually used t

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
ur, or just downloading from the bank and importing. > > It is a personal choice, but can have other implications as noted. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 4/8/24 5:11 PM, R Losey wrote: > > Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always dated a > > t

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
wrote: > This is the formal terminology that the accountancy expert bodies deem > "revenue recognition". Numerous formal (see IFRS and GAAP) publications > exist, with a much better supporting evidence than our informal discussions > here. > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread R Losey
On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 5:51 PM Liz wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:11:37 -0500 > R Losey wrote: > > > Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always > > dated a transaction on the date I wrote the check; similarly, when > > entering credit card t

[GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-08 Thread R Losey
Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always dated a transaction on the date I wrote the check; similarly, when entering credit card transactions, I use the date that I actually used the credit card. Recently, however, I was having a discussion with a friend and he said that

Re: [GNC] check printing

2024-04-05 Thread R Losey
While things may have changed, many years ago when I worked in the bank, the info at the bottom of the check was printed with a special ink (I think they called it a magnetic ink) so that the routing and account numbers could be scanned by a computer. The rest of the check is regular printing.

Re: [GNC] New user looking for some reporting help

2024-04-02 Thread R Losey
I used Quicken, not QB, but I also became fed up with Quicken and Intuit that I changed to GnuCash and haven't missed it a bit. I really like GnuCash -- but the reports are not as out-of-the-box as they are with Quicken; you usually have to tweak things to get them to work. I don't remember what

Re: [GNC] Linux, Gnucash

2024-04-01 Thread R Losey
Good: you posted your operating system (Linux Mint). But you didn't post the version of the OS, nor what version of GnuCash you are using. I find it a little hard to understand you; you say that you are trying to get stock quotes working, but then you said that you can "get the stock every

Re: [GNC] gnucash suggestions

2024-03-18 Thread R Losey
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM Tommy Trussell wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM J. A. Harris wrote: > > > On 3/17/24 15:54, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > > Those are "commodities" > > > > I am aware of that. Currencies, Funds, and NYSEs are all particular > > types of Commodities.

Re: [GNC] Separating tax years for payments in next year

2024-03-09 Thread R Losey
I like the idea -- I usually just "remember" that the Jan payment is for the previous year. But if you're going to make sub-accounts under taxes, why not use actual years? Taxes/Federal/2023 and Taxes/Federal/2024. Once a year is done with, you can easily hide the account so that it doesn't show

Re: [GNC] Bill total does not match real total

2024-03-09 Thread R Losey
Regarding below, perhaps Amazon does it that way because some states (locations) exempt certain items from sales tax: Wisconsin, for example, used to not tax food. In Texas also, food is not taxed. On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 11:56 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > On

Re: [GNC] Old check

2024-03-05 Thread R Losey
from the payee. > -- > Dave Reiser > dbrei...@icloud.com > > > On Mar 4, 2024, at 11:25 PM, R Losey wrote: > > Best wishes -- I'm still waiting for a check from 2018 to clear. I checked > with my bank (I thought a check would not be valid after a certain time), > and they

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 252, Issue 3

2024-03-04 Thread R Losey
Best wishes -- I'm still waiting for a check from 2018 to clear. I checked with my bank (I thought a check would not be valid after a certain time), and they said they'd honor it if it showed up today. I don't want to spend the money to issue a stop-check order. On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 11:35 AM

Re: [GNC] Fixed or still broken?

2024-03-01 Thread R Losey
other dependency updates from MSYS2. No GnuCash > bug fixes since last December are in it; for those you can either wait for > the 5.6 release at the end of the month or install a nightly build from > https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >

[GNC] Fixed or still broken?

2024-03-01 Thread R Losey
I upgraded my Windows 10 machine to GnuCash 5.5-1 and everything was fine until the new month started today. The Scheduled Transactions "Since Last Run" showed up several start-of-month entries. One of them I am not ready to have created yet (it has a variable that is still unresolved), so I

Re: [GNC] Running mixed versions (okay?)

2024-02-24 Thread R Losey
accidentally run it. On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 1:11 AM R Losey wrote: > Thanks for this... I haven't seen any notice about file changes between > major versions (probably because - as you say - it is silently checked). > > Yes, the Ubuntu version is from the repository. I'll hav

Re: [GNC] Running mixed versions (okay?)

2024-02-24 Thread R Losey
r > machines and then import them into a separate file used only with 4.8. > But that is way more work than even building from source each release, > not to mention updating a flatpak. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 2/24/24 10:01 AM, R Losey wrote: > > So I have wonderful Gnu

[GNC] Running mixed versions (okay?)

2024-02-24 Thread R Losey
So I have wonderful GnuCash installed on WIndows 10, on an M1 iMac, and on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04LTS). I mostly use the iMac and Windows versions, and I've always kept these two versions in sync; that is, when I decided to upgrade to 5.1, I install 5.1 back-to-back on the iMac and Windows

Re: [GNC] gnucash-5.5-1.setup.exe

2024-02-21 Thread R Losey
This may be a repeat -- reply-all caught me because it went to other mailing lists, some of which need moderation. To echo the others, this is excellent news... does this also fix the issues with the Scheduled Transactions? Thank you! On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:22 AM Geoff wrote: > John, you

Re: [GNC] gnucash-5.5-1.setup.exe

2024-02-21 Thread R Losey
Excellent! Well done: Does this also fix the issues with Scheduled Transactions? On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM John Ralls wrote: > Having finally beaten WebKitGtk on Windows into submission so that it runs > JavaScript without crashing, at least in my not very extensive tests, I've > built a

Re: [GNC] New user error

2024-02-07 Thread R Losey
I was intrigued by the Transaction Journal mentioned, but I don't have a Transaction Journal in my View menu... after additional digging, I discovered it doesn't show up on the Accounts page; one must be in one of the accounts to see it. On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 10:14 AM Adrien Monteleone <

Re: [GNC] End of year

2024-01-29 Thread R Losey
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 1:40 PM Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > On 2024-01-29 06:04, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > > OK, I want to do it properly, but I had an email crash and . > > > > So, can someone point me or send me the 'how to' for doing an end of > > year process, where I can

Re: [GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

2024-01-29 Thread R Losey
As the others have noted, it may or may be not worth your time to track this - but it is your decision. The "Rounding" (better called "Paycheck Rounding") could probably be a liability or an asset... possibly a sub-category of "Gross Pay" (I call mine "Salary"). You should record both changes in

Re: [GNC] No such file or directory error finding libgnc-expressions-guile.so

2024-01-25 Thread R Losey
This is probably a silly question, but does the .so file have permissions that let it be read by your account? And/or what about the containing directory? On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM John Haiducek wrote: > After upgrading to gnucash 5.5 on Fedora 38 (using the rpm package for > gnucash

Re: [GNC] how to record tax credit for capital loss

2024-01-24 Thread R Losey
I also should add that I am not an accountant. Having said that... I'd do like David said... since the category is called Capital "Gains", I'd make it an Income category, with sub-categories for each broker (hopefully there aren't too many), and maybe every year. I say "maybe" because if you

Re: [GNC] Windows x64 release builds are missing

2024-01-18 Thread R Losey
I'm not part of the team, but I am a software engineer, and I've done conversion to 64-bits. In the best case, it's just a matter of re-compiling... but that's never worked except for very small programs. All of the libraries used must have 64-bit versions, and then each call to the library needs

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-17 Thread R Losey
I appreciate the various input here; it has been educational, so I wanted particularly to add my thanks. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 1/16/2024 1:42 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I'm thinking of a case where someone starts

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income << the general case is "imputed income"

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
On 1/15/24 5:33 PM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > On 1/15/2024 4:02 PM, R Losey wrote: > >> Thank you; this is helpful. > >> > >> I never really thought about recording Deferred Income previously > >> because the investment people track it and let me k

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
uity don't try to go back and fix that. Just use equity itself for > the second debit. > > * The other is that you don't seem to understand the "sense" of an > account of type "income". That's where your wrong sign comes from > > > > > On

Re: [GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
accounts. > Get official advice though. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 1/15/24 10:52 AM, R Losey wrote: > > Last year, there was a discussion here about tracking taxable > distributions > > from IRAs which included a deferred income account. I had not been

[GNC] Deferred Income

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
Last year, there was a discussion here about tracking taxable distributions from IRAs which included a deferred income account. I had not been tracking taxable income, and thought that this would be good, so I tried to do this last year, but I think I did it incorrectly. I wanted to avail myself

Re: [GNC] How do you record the rounding of your netpay?

2024-01-15 Thread R Losey
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM Oleander via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > my netpay each month is rounded up to the next integer. This > rounding in my paycheck is indicated under the voice "Actual rounding" > then it is > charged in the paycheck of the

Re: [GNC] End of Year?

2024-01-13 Thread R Losey
at mess up the next reconciliation? > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 3:07 PM Liz wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:19:26 -0600 > >> R Losey wrote: > >> > >>> But the larger issue is that I believe this email lis

Re: [GNC] End of Year?

2024-01-13 Thread R Losey
OM, but that's about as good as > >you could expect. > > > >In addition, some folks also archive PDF copies of their year-end > >reports with the file. While the file could always be changed after the > > > >fact, the reports reflect the state of the accounts as of

[GNC] End of Year?

2024-01-12 Thread R Losey
I suspect that this topic comes up about every New Year - perhaps it is worth putting in a FAQ (if it's not in one), and perhaps posting the FAQ monthly to this list. In the relatively short time I've been on this list, I definitely see some repeated questions, including this end-of-year question

Re: [GNC] Template Transactions Behavior in Scheduled Transaction Editor

2024-01-12 Thread R Losey
I'm sensing a learning opportunity here... GnuCash has templates? I never noticed that; I only use the templates in the Scheduled Transaction Editor. On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:37 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > That's moving beyond Scheduled Transactions and into

Re: [GNC] new accounts are omitted from reports

2024-01-10 Thread R Losey
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:12 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2024-01-10 11:17, Scott Ellsworth wrote: > > I have a strange problem now: When I create new income accounts, they > > are omitted in income statement reports, and the numbers in them are > > omitted

Re: [GNC] Moving from Quicken

2024-01-08 Thread R Losey
ransaction sources) > Managing downloads manually would be too cumbersome. > How does Gnucash allow me display my source accounts separately? > Thanks > > > Barry Milliken > -- > *From:* R Losey > *Sent:* Monday, January 8, 2024 11:17:58 AM >

Re: [GNC] Moving from Quicken

2024-01-08 Thread R Losey
I, too, left Quicken about 8 years ago and changed to GnuCash. I had a slight familiarity with double-entry accounting, and I've seldom had any issues with GnuCash. I thought about importing Quicken data, but then decided against it... I reasoned that if I really did need to reference something I

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2024-01-03 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 6:24 PM Dave Hayes wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:21:57 -0600 > R Losey wrote: > > I was just expressing concern that the last few releases seem far more > > bug-ridden than I remember any of the 4.x releases being. > > Speaking as a long time gn

Re: [GNC] Strange bug in Reports after upgrading to 5.4

2023-12-30 Thread R Losey
On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 3:10 AM Leo Braga via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a long time home user (for personal finances) and I was "stuck" in > 2.6.12 for a long time, until deciding to upgrade to 5.4 last month. > Everything was looking good, but now I found a

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-29 Thread R Losey
rksolutions.com > > On 12/27/23 22:33, R Losey wrote: > > Let me start off by trying to avoid hateful responses... > > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 12:07 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2023-12-28 17:26, Geoff wrote: > > If you are already running Windows 10/11 with an existing Pro, > > Enterprise, or Education licence (but not a Home licence) then Windows > > Sandbox is an easy way to

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 7:03 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > I'd offer as a comparison other projects and commercial products where > the developers aren't nearly as 'Johnny on the Spot' or as helpful and > responsive, or even accessible, but then, that wouldn't be

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
Thanks; I haven't played with GnuCash Portable, and I don't know if that would help do beta testing. On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 4:35 PM Fred Bone wrote: > On 28 December 2023 at 11:05, R Losey said: > > [...] > > Since I've been on this mailing list (much less time than

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
; be > more involved after retiring but life had other plans and has imposed other > priorities. > > David Cousens > > > On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 22:33 -0600, R Losey wrote: > > Let me start off by trying to avoid hateful responses... > > > > I worked in the sof

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
That's fine, and I ponder upon what I wrote, I think that "worse" was not the best word... GnuCash is adding some nice features and I enjoy it very much... A better word may have been "more bug-ridden". I don't remember having as many problems with releases until this year. On Thu, Dec 28, 2023

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 11:37 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2023-12-28 09:05, R Losey wrote: > > As a former software engineer, I've thought about volunteering, but it > > seems so massive an undertaking that it daunts me. I suppose I co

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-28 Thread R Losey
On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 9:41 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 12/28/2023 3:56 AM, G R Hewitt wrote: > > My two pennyworth is similar. > > My two cents is a little different. > > Also a retired pro, a very senior sort of systems analyst who toward the > end

[GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2023-12-27 Thread R Losey
Let me start off by trying to avoid hateful responses... I worked in the software industry, and the programs I supported have had their share of issues. I remember (with hung head) when we went through a patch in which we would claim to have fixed a problem, only to have it recur, and then fixed

Re: [GNC] Gnu cash Version 5.5 error message

2023-12-18 Thread R Losey
Forgive the possibly silly question, but are you sure that the installation completed successfully? Is that referenced library file in the folder? On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 10:30 PM Paras Desai wrote: > Hello John > > Thanks for your revert. > > Please find attached the message screenshot. > >

Re: [GNC] Nice to Have?

2023-12-16 Thread R Losey
I think that I always have seen the full list of scheduled transactions (on an iMac using 5.3) when GC starts; most of them are empty; some have Reminder or Created tags. But I thought I always see the full list. On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 2:45 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>

Re: [GNC] Easier way to jump to specific tab/register in main window

2023-12-13 Thread R Losey
I thought there was a shortcut to jump to the accounts tab that I have not seen in this discussion. I have several accounts open, but not so many that they scroll; that way, all tabs are visible at the top. On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 7:19 PM Glenn Fowler wrote: > Another keyboard shortcut you may

Re: [GNC] Search not working

2023-12-09 Thread R Losey
...and make sure that "New Search" is selected instead of "Refine Current Search" On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 6:00 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2023-12-08 15:52, Xe Roy wrote: > > When I search for 19.26 I get no results even though I just entered a > transaction

Re: [GNC] Advise me please: go up to 5.4.2 or stay at 4.13?

2023-12-07 Thread R Losey
> > *From:* gnucash-user > > on behalf of Eric > > Chapman > > *Sent:* Thursday, December 7, 2023 7:42 AM > > *To:* GNUcash User List > > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Advise me please: go up to 5.4.2 or stay at 4.13? > > Thanks,

Re: [GNC] Advise me please: go up to 5.4.2 or stay at 4.13?

2023-12-06 Thread R Losey
I generally stay up to date, but with the original 5.4 release leaving processes running in Windows, I've stayed at 5.3. I fully expect to move to 5.5 when it comes out (I usually also monitor this list for a while to see if there are any unpleasant bugs in the new release before I update). On

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-06 Thread R Losey
gt; > One thing, how do I make the column width for Description narrower. Do I > have to use Edit->Style Sheets to do that? > > Tom > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 12:46 PM R Losey wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:48 AM Tom Balazs wrote: >> >>

Re: [GNC] Reports for Personal Finance

2023-12-05 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:48 AM Tom Balazs wrote: > I finished importing and reconciling months of bank data. Now I want to put > that to good use. > > For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful > reports? > > Common advice is that your emergency savings account should

Re: [GNC] Navigation through chart of accounts: shortcuts or bookmarks?

2023-12-01 Thread R Losey
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:08 PM Art Chimes wrote: > I have a pretty large number of accounts, and there is name > duplication. For example, I might have a S 500 index fund in my > brokerage account and another one in a traditional IRA and maybe yet > another one in a trust account. My usual

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash not performing math functions correctly on entry [SOLVED]

2023-12-01 Thread R Losey
I assumed that with auto-decimal on, entering "6" means ".06"... if I want .06, I'll enter ".06", so I don't want this. I always assumed it works this way in the calculations, too. On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 1:40 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Indeed, I'm not sure

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Window

2023-11-27 Thread R Losey
My GnuCash is the same way; I have "Reverse Balanced Accounts" is set for Credit accounts. I don't remember changing this, so it may have come this way. I also am not using the formal accounting labels. Regardless, charges to the card should be in the right-hand column, and payments should be in

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

2023-11-27 Thread R Losey
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:04 AM Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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." > >

Re: [GNC] Can I find transactions into an account that has only one split?

2023-11-24 Thread R Losey
I was not aware that the admins could do anything; I thought it was the web page or the email client being used. On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 9:28 AM David Kirkby wrote: > Apologies for not sending to the list. Have the admins considered making > that the default behaviour, which is the case with

Re: [GNC] How do I change keybindings for tab switching in GnuCash?

2023-11-23 Thread R Losey
I wrote in error; on MacOS, it's command-TAB to switch between active windows; it's control-TAB on Windows. On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 6:36 PM Glenn Fowler wrote: > R Losey, > > For me on my Windows machine when in GnuCash CTRL + TAB moves the focus > across the toolbar but to chan

Re: [GNC] How do I change keybindings for tab switching in GnuCash?

2023-11-22 Thread R Losey
Really? Because CTRL-tab in both MacOS and Windows allows one to change the activate application... On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:46 PM Glenn Fowler wrote: > Thank you Adrien, the OS is not affecting it in this case. > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:47 PM Adrien Monteleone < >

Re: [GNC] Auto-complete of Memo field suffers short term memory

2023-11-21 Thread R Losey
resh book and to test that and my > existing book in Linux. (I'm on MacOS) > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 11/20/23 8:43 PM, R Losey wrote: > > Yes, I am running 5.3 and I have this same problem. I had hoped it was > > f

Re: [GNC] Auto-complete of Memo field suffers short term memory

2023-11-20 Thread R Losey
Yes, I am running 5.3 and I have this same problem. I had hoped it was fixed in 5.4, and I'm saddened to learn that it is still with us. On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 3:55 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > For clarity, I'm not referring to the auto-population of Memos

Re: [GNC] noobie question about split transactions

2023-11-20 Thread R Losey
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > Good for you on paying the balance each month. I also treat our credit > cards as a "30 day net account". Why pay interest? For those who respond > "then why not pay cash or debit card?" note that these

Re: [GNC] noobie question about split transactions

2023-11-20 Thread R Losey
What you have been doing is interesting, but (as you've heard from the feedback) not the recommended way of doing it. I don't understand how you handled the dates; if the statement is dated 01 Nov, and has transactions throughout October, did you just enter them as all occurring on 01 Nov? We

Re: [GNC] Adjusting column width on Gnucash

2023-11-17 Thread R Losey
Another possibility would be to shut down Gnucash, find the file that stores these kind of preferences, and delete it. Presumably, GnuCash would come up with the standard settings... but this may affect too many other items to be a valid option but as a last chance if you cannot get to just

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation with a strange opening balance

2023-11-15 Thread R Losey
I don't get statements with numbers to use - my checkbooks are reconciled monthly to whatever the current online balance is, so what GnuCash does now is just what I need. On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 8:27 AM Christopher Lam wrote: > A bit tangential to the issue of reconciliation is that

Re: [GNC] GC Best Practices for Investment Management

2023-11-09 Thread R Losey
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 9:42 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 11/8/2023 4:42 PM, R Losey wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 12:17 PM Jediator > wrote: > > > >> After dumping QB and using GC for couple of months, I started

Re: [GNC] GC Best Practices for Investment Management

2023-11-08 Thread R Losey
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 12:17 PM Jediator wrote: > After dumping QB and using GC for couple of months, I started really > enjoying its features and simplicity. I noticed that a major feature in > GC is the stock and investment management function, which I was > hesitating to get into. I'd like

[GNC] Fwd: Scheduled Transactions: Monday before the 4th Wednesday

2023-11-01 Thread R Losey
I see that I forgot to reply all in my reply, so I'm forwarding the thread with Stan's latest reply. -- Forwarded message - From: Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) Date: Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transactions: Monday before the 4th Wednesday To: R Losey

Re: [GNC] GnuCash_user: rounding errors and significant digits

2023-10-27 Thread R Losey
And to use a concrete example: 1.4 + 1.4 = 2.8 - the sum rounds to 3. If you round the addends, you get 1 + 1 = 2 On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 12:07 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > Beating what should be a dead horse. > > Let A, B, and C be rational numbers (ie:

Re: [GNC] I need basic help

2023-10-21 Thread R Losey
Very > > hard to set aside the use of credit and debit in the modern sense and > > use them in a very different way. Counter intuitive. > > Not exactly. The confusion over "modern sense" is something else. Thus > when R. Losey says: > > "It*IS* ha

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