RE: budgeting is very slow

2017-12-11 Thread Dave & Tracy E via gnucash-user
Wow. That’s too bad. Every entry and change on the budget takes about 30 seconds. Dave From: Christopher Lam [mailto:christopher@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:50 PM To: Dave & Tracy E Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: budgeting is very

Re: budgeting is very slow

2017-12-11 Thread Christopher Lam
This is nothing to do with your hardware, it's a known issue with budgeting on windows and so far no one has been able to diagnose why. On 12 Dec 2017 11:56 AM, "Dave & Tracy E via gnucash-user" < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi. > > > > * The budgeting window on GnuCash 2.6.18 is

Re: GnuCash: Docs: Where to document?

2017-12-11 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 11, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Charles Sliger wrote: > > > On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 16:01 -0800, John Ralls wrote: >> >>> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Charles Sliger wrote: >>> >>> I'm starting to migrate from QuickBooks to GnuCash. >>> I'm working my

Accounts using mySQL stuck in Read-only mode

2017-12-11 Thread Graham Reeves
I have been using Gnucash with mySQL for about as long as such things were possible on both Windows and Ubuntu clients to a mySQL server running on a Ubuntu server. Occasionally the connection between the client and mySQL server would be lost. This was a nuisance but not a great problem. All

budgeting is very slow

2017-12-11 Thread Dave & Tracy E via gnucash-user
Hi. * The budgeting window on GnuCash 2.6.18 is extremely slow. Every step takes several seconds. It's quite frustrating to add numbers to it or makes adjustments. * I have 12 months in my budget. The last two budgets always extend off the screen to the right. I can't view all the months

Re: GnuCash: Docs: Where to document?

2017-12-11 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Chaz, Seems like that sort of write up might go on the wiki. I'll note that neither python nor the sql aspects of gnucash are consistently available to the average user, so your write up may have limited utility. Python is only available to Mac users if they compile gnucash themselves, for

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread DaveC49
My bad John, I replied to the wrong post. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: GnuCash: Docs: Where to document?

2017-12-11 Thread Charles Sliger
On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 16:01 -0800, John Ralls wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Charles Sliger wrote: > > > > I'm starting to migrate from QuickBooks to GnuCash. > > I'm working my way through the integration issues with > > Gnucash - Python - Postgresql > > How

Re: GnuCash: Docs: Where to document?

2017-12-11 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Charles Sliger wrote: > > I'm starting to migrate from QuickBooks to GnuCash. > I'm working my way through the integration issues with > Gnucash - Python - Postgresql > How would the GnuCash team prefer that I document this for the benefit >

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:51 PM, DaveC49 wrote: > > John, > > That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in Gnucash (it > creates those entries) and once the entries have been created they are > easily edited either from the Opening Balances register

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread DaveC49
John, That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in Gnucash (it creates those entries) and once the entries have been created they are easily edited either from the Opening Balances register or from the register for the account for which you set the opening balance, just as

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not true at all. You can edit it to your hearts content. I have on several occasions. If you’ve reconciled it though, you’ll get a warning asking if you are sure you want to change it, and of course, doing so might throw off a reconciliation. There’s nothing special about the opening balance

mac os high sierra issues

2017-12-11 Thread Pam Dooner
Hi. I just upgraded to High Sierra and while gnucash opens and is usable, trying to open the scheduled transaction editor crashes the editor and gnush has to be force-quit. I get a parsing error on opening if there are any scheduled transactions run since last opened so I wanted to edit the

Re: What does "Update and Reconcile" update?

2017-12-11 Thread D via gnucash-user
U+R "updates and reconciles" the information in the transaction with the information in the OFX entry. If you like your information ( like the description), then choose R only. I usually prefer the latter. David On December 10, 2017, at 9:57 PM, Donald Pellegrino

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 10, 2017, at 10:17 PM, Carmelo Pagán wrote: > > I tried the suggestion to no avail. So if I understand this correctly, there > no remedy to recover from user error in the Reconcile function Hm > Machine restricts user. Something out of whack with

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 12/11/2017 3:17 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I would suggest reading section 4.4 of the tutorial, where the issue regarding handling starting balance problems is addressed directly. David I would also suggest learning how to CORRECT errors, which in formal accounting is not done

RE: entries

2017-12-11 Thread Christine via gnucash-user
Hi Adrien Thanks so much that's sorted it -Original Message- From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+cmaloney4=talktalk@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone Sent: 11 December 2017 03:04 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: entries Christine, Following what

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

2017-12-11 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I would suggest reading section 4.4 of the tutorial, where the issue regarding handling starting balance problems is addressed directly.  David On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:48, John R. Sowden wrote: My suggestion is to never use the opening balance in an