[GNC] I'm moving to a new email address

The email address I use for posting to Gnucash Users is hosted by my Internet provider, and it is ending support for hosting email addresses at the end of September. I don't like the arrangements for continued hosting of the email address, so I am allowing my provider to delete the email

Re: [GNC] Truncated popup menus on Gnucash 5.0 for Mac

of the late 4.x versions had some window display issues on MacOS, but not with menus as far as I recall. Regards, Adrien On 4/14/23 1:25 AM, prl wrote: Popup menus in various places in GnuCash for Intel Mac 5.0 seem to be truncated. I've attached screenshot snippets for the action popup

Re: [GNC] Truncated popup menus on Gnucash 5.0 for Mac

Hi, John. Thanks for the bug report link. I've left a comment there. Regards, Peter On 15/4/2023 09:52, jra...@ceridwen.fremont.ca.us wrote: There's now a bug report https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798858. On Apr 14, 2023, at 10:59 AM, John Ralls wrote: I've seen this problem too

[GNC] Truncated popup menus on Gnucash 5.0 for Mac

Popup menus in various places in GnuCash for Intel Mac 5.0 seem to be truncated. I've attached screenshot snippets for the action popup on entries in the Scheduled Transactions>Since Last Run popup panel, and the right-button popup on transactions in the register. I've also seen the same

Re: [GNC] Weird MacOS UI issue with windows cutoff on bottom and right

Intel MacBook Pro, MacOS Ventura 13.1, GnuCash 4.13 I don't use the business features of GnuCash, but I have noticed that the Since Last Run popup window is slightly shorter that it should be, with a little bit of the buttons at the bottom cut off, but less than what Adrian is showing for the

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released

. Regards, John Ralls On Dec 19, 2021, at 3:06 PM, wrote: Getting the same for Windows. No links for 4.9 -- still shows 4.8 Maybe it's a timing thing -- will try later this afternoon -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of prl Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 3:03 PM

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released

I'm getting the same as David H. When I click on the GnuCash home page link for 'GnuCash 4.9 for Apple macOS ≥ 10.13—"High Sierra" ', I get a SourceForge "Whoops, we can't find that page." error page, presumably for a HTTP 404 Not Found error. Peter On 20/12/2021 08:11, David H wrote: John,

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

Ken, thanks from me for that, too. I'd been able to get Finance::Quote to install from other installation instructions for macOS, but when I tried to use it I was getting authentication failures when F::Q tried to connect to a server using HTTPS. I think it was installing/updating Mozilla::CA

Re: [GNC] Serious issues with Mac OS update - 12.0.1

the version and sha256 doesn't get reflected in the release notes. Regards, John Ralls On Oct 26, 2021, at 10:17 PM, prl wrote: Yes, I saw that. I fixed it by installing Intel GnuCash 4.8-2, even though the GnuCash release notes for 4.8 say "[t]he macOS and Win32 GnuCash bundles were not aff

Re: [GNC] Serious issues with Mac OS update - 12.0.1

Yes, I saw that. I fixed it by installing Intel GnuCash 4.8-2, even though the GnuCash release notes for 4.8 say "[t]he macOS and Win32 GnuCash bundles were not affected". Perhaps that could be corrected, since 4.8-2 seems to have fixes for macOS 12.0.1 Monterey, at least for Intel Macs.

Re: [GNC] Default Accounting period permanent change (Ver 4.6 still..)

As other posters have said, the UK doesn't follow Australia in the definition of the fiscal year (though if they did use the same dates as us, it would probably be more accurate to express it the other way around). There are a wide variety of dates for the fiscal year across the world.

Re: [GNC] Crash on exit in Gnucash 4.7-2 in macOS Big Sur

Ralls On Sep 27, 2021, at 11:35 PM, William Prescott wrote: For what it's worth, I'm not seeing any problem with 4.7-2 on my 2017 Intel iMac OS Big Sur 11.6. Will On 2021 Sep 28, at 09-28 00:16:07, prl wrote: Thanks, John. Here's the thread 0 (the crashed thread) stack trace, machine reg

Re: [GNC] Crash on exit in Gnucash 4.7-2 in macOS Big Sur

48 8d 3d 76 3f 02 .@,H...[].H.=v?. Thread 0 last branch register state not available. On 28/9/21 12:54, John Ralls wrote: On Sep 27, 2021, at 6:47 PM, prl wrote: I seem to be consistently getting a Gnucash crash when I exit (using either Gnucash>Quit or command-Q) from Gnucash 4.7-2 on

Re: [GNC] Crash on exit in Gnucash 4.7-2 in macOS Big Sur

with the release, but there are not any matching reports here or at bugs.gnucash.org. On 9/27/21 9:47 PM, prl wrote: I seem to be consistently getting a Gnucash crash when I exit (using either Gnucash>Quit or command-Q) from Gnucash 4.7-2 on my Big Sur MacBook Pro. Caused by a Segmentation Violat

[GNC] Crash on exit in Gnucash 4.7-2 in macOS Big Sur

I seem to be consistently getting a Gnucash crash when I exit (using either Gnucash>Quit or command-Q) from Gnucash 4.7-2 on my Big Sur MacBook Pro. Caused by a Segmentation Violation. Here's a snippet from the macOS log of the crash: Process:   Gnucash [4025] Path:

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

On 17/3/21 13:39, w...@theprescotts.com wrote: On MacOS, you can access all those special characters from the Keyboard menu. One of the tabs in the Keyboard System Preference has an option to 'Show Input menu in the menu bar'. Then from any app you can open up an 'Emoji and Symbol Viewer'

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

On 17/3/21 11:47, prl wrote: On 17/3/21 05:20, viking wrote: Liz wrote On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:31:34 -0500 (CDT) viking viking2ev@.rr wrote: Quite an old bug from 2017. Is there a workaround to be able to import accounts with non-English characters? I am also not able to /manually/ create

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

On 17/3/21 05:20, viking wrote: Liz wrote On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:31:34 -0500 (CDT) viking viking2ev@.rr wrote: Quite an old bug from 2017. Is there a workaround to be able to import accounts with non-English characters? I am also not able to /manually/ create a new account including

Re: [GNC] Moving log location

On 28/2/21 16:06, David Cousens wrote: You should be able to create a folder for your GnuCash files and copy the main file and all of its backup and log files from the desktop into the folder. When you next run GnuCash it will not be able to find the file in the desktop location. You should then

Re: [GNC] OSX crash on exit GnuCash 4.4.1 and 4.4.2

Which version of OS X? Intel Mac or Apple M1 Mac? I have no crash-on-quit problems with Gnucash-Intel-4.4-1 on an Intel Mac running Big Sur 11.2.1. Cheers, Peter On 26/2/21 03:21, Yves Forget via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, I upgraded recently from GnuCash 4.1.2 to GnuCash 4.4.1 on OSX.

Re: [GNC] Opening Balance

29, 2019 at 8:15 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 30/03/2019 11:44, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: >> Hi All, >> >>Can I change my opening balance in my check book register? >> >> Many thanks,

Re: [GNC] Opening Balance

Opening balances in accounts are normally created with a tranasaction from an equity account into the asset account. See section 4.6.2 Opening Balances in the The Tutorial and Concepts Guide, http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=3=C=guide Peter On 30/03/2019 11:44, ToddAndMargo via

Re: [GNC] What is

The "R" column indicates which transactions have been reconciled. Reconciling is used when your account register should match someone else's version of the register (e.g. the bank's view of the account if the register is a bank account). Reconciling is done when you take the other party's

[GNC] Order of scheduled transaction processing

When GnuCash processes scheduled transactions and there is more than one transaction on a single day, in which order are those transactions created? It looks like it might be alphabetical by name. Is that correct? Peter ___ gnucash-user mailing

Re: [GNC] MacOS Crash - possibly display power related?

ards, John Ralls On Jan 27, 2019, at 4:26 PM, prl wrote: John, if you're going to be looking at multi-display issues in Gnucash on MacOS, here's another fairly minor one. I run with dual monitors, the main screen (i.e. the one with the Finder menu bar) on an external monitor, secondary on

Re: [GNC] MacOS Crash - possibly display power related?

John, if you're going to be looking at multi-display issues in Gnucash on MacOS, here's another fairly minor one. I run with dual monitors, the main screen (i.e. the one with the Finder menu bar) on an external monitor, secondary on the laptop monitor. When GnuCash shows a "Since Last Run"

Re: [GNC] Working with compound interest on varying amounts

As David said. In Australia, mortgage accounts can be quite complicated to represent. They are often variable-rate; it's common to pay at 4-weekly intervals while interest is calculated daily, but debited from the account at the end of the calendar month; and advance payments (and sometimes

Re: [GNC] Occasional crashes in GnuCash 3.3 MacOS 10.11.6

Thanks, John. I'll wait for the next version, then. Peter On 27/10/2018 14:16, John Ralls wrote: On Oct 26, 2018, at 7:36 PM, prl <mailto:p...@ozemail.com.au>> wrote: I've been having occasional crashes in GnuCash 3.3 on MacOS 10.11.6 (the Mac is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2009

[GNC] Occasional crashes in GnuCash 3.3 MacOS 10.11.6

I've been having occasional crashes in GnuCash 3.3 on MacOS 10.11.6 (the Mac is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2009 and can't be upgraded to a more recent MacOS version). The crashes typically happen within the first few transactions that I enter after starting GnuCash. I've pressed "Report..." 

Re: [GNC] Receivables Ageing report has a type "Balance", which is in error

On 17/10/2018 02:09, Graham Stoddart-Stones via gnucash-user wrote: Is there a way of narrowing down the search that you are suggesting, please? This is actually a new customer, who had not been in the system before April 2018.not sure if that is at all relevant? Doesn't that fact itself

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.3 Released

, prl <mailto:p...@ozemail.com.au>> wrote: Would you like me to repost this problem in a new thread? Peter On 4/10/2018 22:32, D wrote: Peter, Rather than tacking all your issues into this announcement message, could you start new threads for new issues? It is difficult to monit

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.3 Released

. Thanks. David T. On October 4, 2018, at 2:34 PM, prl wrote: Another thing I can't work out in GNC 3.3/macOS 10.11.6. In all earlier versions of GNC that I've used, when autocompletion was being used in a register field, I could RIGHT_ARROW on the keyboard to accept the autocompletion but stay

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.3 Released

Another thing I can't work out in GNC 3.3/macOS 10.11.6. In all earlier versions of GNC that I've used, when autocompletion was being used in a register field, I could RIGHT_ARROW on the keyboard to accept the autocompletion but stay in the field, so that I could add to the text or delete

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.3 Released

Hi, Geert. Thanks for the clarification. Peter On 4/10/2018 17:27, Geert Janssens wrote: Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 02:45:28 CEST schreef prl: Thanks John. That works nicely, even though the CSS file path and file contents are different from what's in the GTK3 link you gave. The path

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.3 Released

Thanks, John. Peter On 4/10/2018 11:15, John Ralls wrote: Peter, Thanks, I've made the corrections. Regards, John Ralls On Oct 3, 2018, at 5:45 PM, prl wrote: Thanks John. That works nicely, even though the CSS file path and file contents are different from what's in the GTK3 link you

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.3 Released

On my Mac (OS X 10.11.6), GnuCash 3.3 (native, not X Window) has increased the font size in the registers. I tried to reduce it by creating ~/.gtkrc-2.0.gnucash with contents: style "font" {   font_name = "Arial Narrow 8" } widget_class "*" style "font" gtk-font-name = "Arial Narrow 8" as

Re: [GNC] [OT] Why is Debit abbreviated Dr?

For what it's worth, both my oldish Macquarie Australian Dictionary and my even older Shorter Oxford agree that Dr is an abbreviation for debtor. Neither gives any etymology for the abbreviation and the Oxford doesn't give any historical reference for it. The online free Oxford dictionary

Re: [GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

On 31/05/2018 12:59, Dave Tapuska wrote: >From the gnucash point of view it only uses the latest quote so even returning the compact list (which is the last 100 days) is far overkill. Perhaps a lighter weight request returning the last closing value would be sufficient. That would be ideal, but

Re: [GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

On 30/05/2018 15:12, Alun Champion wrote: MacOS High Sierra, Gnucash 3.1-3. If anyone finds a way for reducing the padding around the tabs (left), I would be very interested. 3.1 uses almost twice as much space as 2.6.X. I keep a number of tabs open (reports, accounts, registers, etc.) and this

Re: [GNC] Handling VISA Debit Accounts

On 7/05/2018 16:39, Karen Stingel wrote: This is a Fix of my previous thread ... Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 182, Issue 8, apologies for not clarifying the subject line last time. How does gnc handle the Case of a VISA Debit card? Technically, this is a BANK account with a VISA enabled card

Alphavantage intermittently failing to return ASX quotes

I'm having problems this morning (3 Dec 11:30 Eastern Australian Summer time, 3 Dec 00:30 UTC) with Alphavantage intermittently failing to return quotes for the four ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) stocks that we hold: gnc-fq-dump -v alphavantage CBA.AX IAG.AX QAN.AX TLS.AX Finance::Quote

Re: Reconciliation Report

On 1/12/2017 08:06, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: Perhaps a more serious issue? Depending on what is meant by "reconciliation report". Rick, can you describe what your report is supposed to show? Way back when I used Quicken for Mac, a reconciliation report on that system showed:

Re: Finance-Quote 1.45 released!

Thanks, Erik. Peter On 13/11/2017 10:27, Erik Colson wrote: prl <p...@ozemail.com.au> writes: my $suffix = uc($1); yes, I've already committed it for the next version. best -- erik colson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnuca

Re: Finance-Quote 1.45 released!

   low: 3.4400 tls.ax method: alphavantage tls.ax   open: 3.4600 tls.ax    success: 1 tls.ax symbol: tls.ax tls.ax volume: 22162836 Cheers, Peter On 13/11/2017 01:29, Erik Colson wrote: prl <p...@ozemail.com.au> writes: F::Q 1.45 seems to be returning

Re: Finance-Quote 1.45 released!

F::Q 1.45 seems to be returning the wrong currency (or none) for Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) stocks. For example, for Telstra (ASX:TLS), if I run: gnc-fq-dump alphavantage asx:tls I get: currency: USD The numerical values are the correct AUD values for the prices: the currency should be

Re: Scheduled transactions

No problem. Peter On 7/10/2017 20:33, Alain Dormoy wrote: As a test I have re-entered the amount for one of my scheduled transactions. It appeared with comas and the next month transaction was created smoothly. So thank you. Alain Le 07/10/2017 à 01:49, prl a écrit : On 7/10/2017 05:04

Re: Scheduled transactions

On 7/10/2017 05:04, Alain Dormoy wrote: What should I do? Just replace the dots with comas in the formulas? That's what I'd try to start with. Peter ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Scheduled transactions

On 6/10/2017 18:29, Alain Dormoy wrote: Hi! Since I reinstalled GC (2.6.17) under Win 10 on a new computer, everytime I launch GC, I get this type of error message: "Error parsing SX [name of a (scheduled) transaction] key [debit formula] = formula [14.90] at [.90] caractère non défini." Do

Re: Permissions on Mac

On 29/09/2017 03:54, Eric Beversluis wrote: What permissions should the .gnucash files have on Mac? Some seem to be 644 while the older ones seem to be 777. I copied them all to Mac from Linux using a FAT32 disk, so I’m not sure they all came over properly. 777 seems wrong, but 644 seems not

Re: nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

A transaction always has a Notes field, but the Notes field is only *visible* in a register if either View>Transaction Log or View>Double Line is set. Peter On 15/09/2017 02:49, D via gnucash-user wrote: George, A transaction will have a note always. A transaction in Gnucash by definition

Re: New user

In addition to John Ralls' comments, what do you want to achieve by doing a sort on the description? Would it be better achieved by doing a search on the register (which can be case-insensitive), or by looking at the register that contains the other split in the transactions of interest

Re: Investment performance

Doesn't Reports>Assets>Assets Barchart give you what you want, after suitable adjustments to the account(s) displayed, child inclusion setting, account depth and period? Peter On 17/08/2017 12:05, William Kupersanin wrote: Hello Filipe, Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I am wondering

Re: Adding quantity to expenses

That's what I do for our car fuel purchases, with a note like: 436.9km@38.43l 8.80l/100km (27/30 mpg (US/Imp), for those who still measure things that way ;) ) Manually calculated, but in a standard format, so that if I wanted to extract data to look at things like like averages or trends, or

Re: GNUCash value proposition

On 5/06/2017 18:24, Colin Law wrote: On 5 June 2017 at 03:21, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: If we all had the time and discipline to enter every transaction as it was made, this is all true. Entering transactions as they are made is very hard, and without a client that you