Problems with entries in Lao language

2017-07-15 Thread Michael
Hi all, On one computer (DELL Vostro 14 3000) entries in Lao language are pulled apart and therefore not easy to read. The same file opened from an USB stick on another computer (DELL VOSTRO 3550) has no problems. Bot computers are using Windows 10 and the latest version of gnu cash. I

Loan/Mortgage payments with "adjusted" principle (eg after an extra principle payment), SOLVED

2017-07-15 Thread azalea4va
I recently switched to gnucash and had trouble setting up my mortgage account because I had made extra principle payments in the past. I search of this board revealed others have had the same problem. So I wrote some scheme functions that take care of the problem. This works for situations

Re: Loan/Mortgage payments with "adjusted" principal (eg after an extra principle payment), SOLVED

2017-07-15 Thread azalea4va
Oops, that should be "principal", not "principle". Forgiveness (for that and surely others) requested from the spelling police. -- View this message in context:

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-15 Thread John Wright
Ok, Did not know that, thanks. On 07/14/2017 01:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:00:33 -0500 David Carlson wrote: Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-15 Thread azalea4va
GnuCash - User mailing list wrote > In other words, money comes from the income account (e.g., > Income:Dividends) and goes to the brokerage account (Assets:Brokerage) . I > am not sure you need that second transaction at all. > ... > Without the second transaction, things get much simpler. The

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 July 2017 at 08:37, Harry Hall wrote: > Hi > New to forum and looking for help. > Basically I have a new iMac and my old gnucash cash accounts are on my old > windows 10 PC. > I have downloaded gnucash for mac but unable to import the export > transactions

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-15 Thread azalea4va
Derek Atkins wrote > Your best bet may be to create a QIF file that contains the transactions > you want and then import that file. This is essentially what I resorted to. Since gnucash does not support export to anything but a CSV file, I wrote a shell script to extract information from the

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-15 Thread John Wright
I am considering a larger drive. It might be the smarter way to go. On 07/14/2017 03:55 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:10:10 -0500 John Wright wrote: I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive and installing gnucash on

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-15 Thread John Wright
I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive and installing gnucash on that. I could also install all my other apps as well and not use my hard drive at all. Talk about a throw back to the dark ages. John On 07/14/2017 12:00 PM, David Carlson wrote: Perhaps this

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-15 Thread Harry Hall
Colin, Wow did not think of the simple way, all up and running on the iMac now. Much appreciated Harry Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Jul 2017, at 08:45, Colin Law wrote: > >> On 15 July 2017 at 08:37, Harry Hall wrote: >> Hi >> New to forum and

Re: Copying many transactions

2017-07-15 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Actually, the dividends DON'T have to go to the fund account. You could register the reinvestment as a dividend transaction (to a cash account), followed by a buy transaction. That is how I handle these.  YMMV. Best, David   On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:15, azalea4va

Re: Problems with entries in Lao language

2017-07-15 Thread Greg Feneis
Hi Michael, Continuing with your idea to confirm the settings are duplicated between the two computers, you might also want to make sure Windows updates are the same between the two computers (in as much as possible). Perhaps the computer that works as you'd expect it to has an update, that the

Re: Problems with entries in Lao language

2017-07-15 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 15, 2017, at 12:04 AM, Michael wrote: > > Hi all, > > On one computer (DELL Vostro 14 3000) entries in Lao language are pulled > apart and therefore not easy to read. The same file opened from an USB stick > on another computer (DELL VOSTRO 3550) has no