Re: Bank reconciliation question

2018-01-24 Thread DaveC49
It should be no problem at all. Just record the original transactions you already have recorded against something like a miscellaneous expenses account. Add notes to the description that they were direct debits in error. The refunds should also appear in your OFX records so just load then and use

Re: counter number format not used in tax invoice (solved)

2018-01-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens writes: > li works because it represents an integral number. > ld does not work because it represents a decimal number. Telling gnucash to This isn't quite right. 'd' is still an integer value. The issue is that some platforms use 'li' to represent

Re: New File Name ??

2018-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 January 2018 at 20:49, Mike Stillingfleet < mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > Thank you Colin. That remedial action makes sense. I remain mystified as > to how the name got changed. Verification of which file has all the right > data in it isn't as simple as y sounds. I know the

Re: GnuCash Install Online Price Retrieval

2018-01-24 Thread Dave H
Hi Bob, Yeah I think from memory Win 8.1 has a start screen instead of the start menu - it's been awhile :-) There are 3rd party addons out there to restore the start menu if you want it. How do you start gnucash without the Start Menu. When you installed gnucash did you also tell it to

Re: New File Name ??

2018-01-24 Thread Mike Stillingfleet
Thank you Colin. That remedial action makes sense. I remain mystified as to how the name got changed. Verification of which file has all the right data in it isn't as simple as y sounds. I know the reconciliation dates are right in the new file. But going back and checking thousands of prior

Re: Price Retrieval Failure

2018-01-24 Thread Cam Ellison
On 24/01/18 11:26 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: David, Another thing to try is run gnucash from the command line (I believe this is also possible on OS X, though I don't know the details). Normally gnucash prints the version of F::Q it finds to the console during startup. That may give a hint

Re: Reports very slow to open

2018-01-24 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 24 januari 2018 08:54:03 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-user: > Yes. > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790789 > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:37, David Carlson > wrote: OK, I missed the reference. Has a bug been submitted? > >

Re: Price Retrieval Failure

2018-01-24 Thread Geert Janssens
David, Op woensdag 24 januari 2018 04:01:23 CET schreef D via gnucash-user: > Derek, > > I did edit the environment file. > As a sneak preview, with 3.0 this will become a thing of the past. Instead of updating the environment file over and over, you will be creating an "environment.local"

Re: Installation on Windows 10

2018-01-24 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 23 januari 2018 21:47:39 CET schreef David Carlson: > Glad you were able to resolve your write issue. Why your AV is that > sensitive, I am not sure. Did you have to whitelist all the other programs > that you use regularly? > > Anyway, your comment about GnuCash doing unnecessary

Re: info about action field in double-line view

2018-01-24 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 22 januari 2018 17:30:32 CET schreef David T.: > Geert, > > What is the current status on the File Association feature set? I know that > there was a wave of activity a few years back when the feature was first > added, but I haven’t seen anything about it since. My recollection of the

Re: New File Name ??

2018-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 January 2018 at 13:57, Mike Stillingfleet < mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just noticed (after doing a lot of work on GNU Cash) that the file > name has changed. I now have a file call Bank Expenses.gnucash. > > When I click on file I see my old file name

Re: GnuCash Install Online Price Retrieval

2018-01-24 Thread Fross, Michael
Hello Bob, You're going to want to install perl. I use activeperl from activestate, but there are others that work. Ensure perl.exe is in your path. Should happen during install, but just check. Running 'perl -V' from the command line should tell you if it's found. Secondly, you'll want to

New File Name ??

2018-01-24 Thread Mike Stillingfleet
Dear All, I have just noticed (after doing a lot of work on GNU Cash) that the file name has changed. I now have a file call Bank Expenses.gnucash. When I click on file I see my old file name as "2" and the new file new as "1". I didn't ever request a new file name. Where did this new file

Re: Bank reconciliation question

2018-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 January 2018 at 10:31, David Goodenough < david.goodeno...@linkchoose.co.uk> wrote: > A community association for which I am treasurer for recently had someone > succeed in > getting our bank to open a Direct Debit on our account without our > authorisation. > They took 4 payments before we

GnuCash Install Online Price Retrieval

2018-01-24 Thread Bob Wachtel
I have recently installed Gnucash with import from my previous Quicken files. I have not been able to find the Install Online Price Retrieval function to enable online stock price retrieval. I am running windows 8.1 and do not find a "Start Menu Gnucash Group". Windows 8.1 does not seem to have