RE: gnucash 3.0 crashes opening accounts file

2018-04-05 Thread htyber
I have examined the gnucash.trace file and find one critical error that's probably causing the crash. Any ideas on how I might address this problem? * 21:47:50 WARN Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory) * 21:48:06 CRIT g_file_test: assertion

Re: gnucash 3.0 crashes opening accounts file

2018-04-05 Thread Cojacket
I have examined the gnucash.trace file and find one critical error that's probably causing the crash. Any ideas on how I might address this problem? * 21:47:50 WARN Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory) * 21:48:06 CRIT g_file_test: assertion

Re: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 6:08 PM, Steve Parry wrote: > > Hi everyone (especially Admins). > > > > Just wondering if you can add an automatic Subject Prefix in MailMan to all > emails from this list (eg [GNC]) so that list emails have a subject like > "[GNC] This is a

RE: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-05 Thread Steve Parry
Hi everyone, Thanks for the email responses. As I said, it was just a thought! Seems there is no support for this idea so I’ll withdraw it Have a great weekend! Cheers …Steve From: Steve Parry Sent: Friday, 6 April 2018 11:09 To: 'Gnucash Users'

Re: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I do the same. I filter based on sender into it’s own folder and I only see unread messages, which I can easily toggle. (in conversation view, so the entire thread is there to read if desired) If that’s not enough, the particular mail client in question might even be able to set an action on a

Re: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-05 Thread Dave H
Personally I find that sort of stuff distracting especially as there are multiple GNC-XXX lists. There is plenty in the current headers to filter on if I could be bothered doing that and I get 1-200 emails most days :-) Just my .02 worth. Cheers Dave H. On 6 April 2018 at 11:08, Steve Parry

Re: Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-05 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Does your mail client not allow you to filter by the presence of gnucash-user as any recipient? Works for me. > On Apr 5, 2018, at 9:08 PM, Steve Parry wrote: > > Hi everyone (especially Admins). > > > > Just wondering if you can add an automatic Subject Prefix in

Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-05 Thread Steve Parry
Hi everyone (especially Admins). Just wondering if you can add an automatic Subject Prefix in MailMan to all emails from this list (eg [GNC]) so that list emails have a subject like "[GNC] This is a sample Subject". This will enable faster identification of the mailing list emails (of which

Re: Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-05 Thread Nelson Handcock
Fair enough. It's just that in my experience the reports that GNucash generate are normally saved a PDF files, so you can't easily cut and paste information from them to use in a spreadsheet. Thanks & Regards, Nelson Handcock 0409 149919 http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia

Re: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 3.0 Released

2018-04-05 Thread Gregory Forster
I still use version 2.4.13.  It has been the least buggiest for me. Greg On 4/4/2018 9:55 AM, Wes Shank wrote: I have attempted to download the new stable release and Windows defender halts the download and indicates the file has a virus. Can someone shed some light on that? Wes Shank

Re: Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Nelson Handcock wrote: Most accountants that are familiar with computer-based accounting systems should have little trouble figuring out how to get the information they need from a copy of your file It all depends on where you live. Here in Oregon accountants must

Re: Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-05 Thread Nelson Handcock
The gnucash platform is free to download and install, so when my accountant had the same issue I suggested he installed gnucash, and then I just sent him a copy of my gnucash file. Most accountants that are familiar with computer-based accounting systems should have little trouble figuring out

Re: Gnucash 3.0 will not go beyond splash screen

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
Well, it's not supposed to be that slow. The upgrades in Release 3.0 are fairly major and it was not expected to run so slow. Furure releases will be much better. David C On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Bill Starrs wrote: > Thanks for the info, > > yes, it finally

Re: Gnucash 3.0 Build error

2018-04-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 4, 2018, at 10:34 PM, DaveC49 wrote: > > After following the build instructions > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu > > I have checked glib-2.0 and libglib2.0 are installed > > I received the

Re: What does your Summary Bar say in Gnucash-3.0? Mine is rude

2018-04-05 Thread lj
Geert Janssens wrote: ... I'm running Fedora 27. Can't reproduce either. I see the full text. OK, thanks. So nobody else sees this, on Linux either. Could it be the Gtk+3 version? I'm using Gtk+3 3.18.9 on Slackware 14.2. I also have access to Xubuntu 16.04.04 LTS and it seems to also have

Re: Gnucash 3.0 will not go beyond splash screen

2018-04-05 Thread Bill Starrs
Thanks for the info, yes, it finally opened up. Some kind of message indicating that the database is being converted would be nice to consider in the future. Best regards, Bill On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:01:37PM -0500, David Carlson wrote: If you have a very large database check recent bug

discover banks API?

2018-04-05 Thread james
Hello One et.al., Perhaps the ideas and tools in this article can help form a structured approach to discerning your banks (hidden) API and communications semantics ? I just ran across this and immediately thought of gnucash. https://blog.haschek.at/post/fc874 hth, James

Re: Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-05 Thread Geert Janssens
Op donderdag 5 april 2018 11:29:09 CEST schreef Roache Ian: > What is the best way to get my gnucash data to my accountant for him to > check and prepare my tax return? Is there a way I can do this if he doesn’t > have the gnucash platform? The best way is probably to generate the reports your

Re: What does your Summary Bar say in Gnucash-3.0? Mine is rude

2018-04-05 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 4 april 2018 01:59:42 CEST schreef lj: > Thanks everyone for the replies. Unless I missed something, nobody else is > seeing it, but everyone else who reported is running Windows or Mac. No > other Linux users reported seeing or not seeing the issue. > > I did a little digging

gnucash 3.0 crashes opening accounts file

2018-04-05 Thread htyber
Gnucash 3.0 on Windows 10 crashes on opening my account file. The account file was last saved in gnucash 2.6.19 and opens flawlessly in that version. When I start gnucash 3.0 it briefly shows my list of accounts and then I get the Windows message that the application has crashed. I am able to

Re: Gnucash 3.0 will not go beyond splash screen

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
If you have a very large database check recent bug reports. I think that I saw one where the first time it takes several hours to update the database to work with release 3.0. Two hours may not be enough time. David C On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Bill Starrs wrote:

Re: Fast reactions to 2.7.8

2018-04-05 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 3 april 2018 18:33:29 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Now that I’ve got 3.0 properly up and running, I see the Save and Close > buttons have labels on the right side, but no others do. > > Regards, > Adrien These buttons are marked differently in the source code ('important' or

Gnucash 3.0 will not go beyond splash screen

2018-04-05 Thread Bill Starrs
Hello, I upgraded to 3.0 yesterday on Archlinux. I have been using MariaDB for storage for a few years. I have tried a few times to launch the new GnuCash. It finds Finance:Quote, prompts me for the database user and password, then just hangs at the splash screen. Launching from the terminal

Re: Unrealized loss

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
Alain, if you opened a bug report, could you provide a link to it so we can follow it there? David c On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:45 AM, David Carlson wrote: > Alain, Adrian and David T > > I also missed the comment that Alain was purchasing and selling stock. He >

Re: Unrealized loss

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
Alain, Adrian and David T I also missed the comment that Alain was purchasing and selling stock. He goes on to state that the unrealized gains are not what he thinks they should be, but without purchase price (cost basis) and sales details for an example round trip security purchase and sale, it

Re: GnuCash 3.0 initial observations

2018-04-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Correction on the last point, I see 2.6.20 is up as of 4/2/18. Sort of. The Mac/Intel build is still not ready, so I haven’t yet announced it, nor have I computed and posted the sha256 hashes to allow

Re: GnuCash 3.0 initial observations

2018-04-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 8:37 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > >> >> On Apr 5, 2018, at 7:43 AM, Deva - wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Firstly, thank you all for this new and much awaited version. >> >> I have just installed GC 3.0 on Mac OS

Re: GnuCash 3.0 initial observations

2018-04-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
In regards to #4 & 5, I ran that report and I don’t see any similar error messages. I do have foreign currency assets, but I don’t trade them or stocks or have any funds. (though I do have trading accounts turned on) You’d have to investigate further. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 5, 2018, at

Re: GnuCash 3.0 initial observations

2018-04-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Correction on the last point, I see 2.6.20 is up as of 4/2/18. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 5, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > >> On Apr 5, 2018, at 7:43 AM, Deva - wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Firstly, thank you all for this

Re: GNUcash 3.0: Share price displayed as fractional (vs. decimal)

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
Ed, GnuCash keeps share prices internally in that hard-to-read fractional format because it is the most accurate way to store the data. However, I think this is a change in behavior so if you could file a bug report about what is happening in release 3.0 the developers will be able to take a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 3.0 Released

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
Wes, That is a known issue which the developers have taken up with Microsoft. Before you override the warning, however, carefully read the list of known bugs in the release announcement to see if you would prefer to wait for a maintenance release in this series. There is also a thread about

Re: Unrealized loss

2018-04-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Apologies David, Somehow after reading over his posts several times, I still missed that. And seeing that now, makes my questions moot or answered. So I’m more confidant to say, “Not a bug.” The gain/loss calculation is being done on the various prices from whatever account he is using to

Re: 2.6.19 crash: one account recovered, one not yet recovered [RESOLVED]

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, John Ralls wrote: The newest file *should* be personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash; personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.gnucash should be the previous version from the last save. Hi John, Re-reading the Guide clears things up for me. The .gnucash

Re: GnuCash 3.0 initial observations

2018-04-05 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi Deva First you forgot to attach screenshots. I'll assist where I can: On 05/04/18 16:43, Deva - wrote: Hello, Firstly, thank you all for this new and much awaited version. I have just installed GC 3.0 on Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.4 and have been browsing through what’s new and what’s

Re: gnucash 3.0 crashes opening accounts file

2018-04-05 Thread David Carlson
nor, Since you found the main thread on this maillist about this bug or bugs you know that the developers are already looking in to it with a very high priority. It is not an easy one resolve because, among other things, it is most likely to appear when release 3.0 is installed over an

RE: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 3.0 Released

2018-04-05 Thread pjlbyrne
Hi Wes, The developers assure us in other recent threads that the virus report is a 'false-positive' ie not really a virus. The matter has been reported to microsoft so it should not be reported in the future. Regards Patrick -- Sent from:

Re: gnucash 3.0 crashes opening accounts file

2018-04-05 Thread nor via gnucash-user
I am using GNUCASH several years for my business purpose and never had any problem for upgrade to new stable version. Opening file created with ver 2.6.19 results in to crash with gnucash 3.0. I suggest developers should look into this so that normal end user will be in a position to use this

Re: gnucash 3.0 crashes opening accounts file

2018-04-05 Thread nor
Same problem with window10. GNUcash 3 crashes on upgrade from ver 2.6.19 greatly appreciate advise -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

RE: ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 3.0 Released

2018-04-05 Thread Wes Shank
I have attempted to download the new stable release and Windows defender halts the download and indicates the file has a virus. Can someone shed some light on that? Wes Shank -Original Message- From: gnucash-announce On Behalf Of

Re: Unrealized loss

2018-04-05 Thread cageda
Lam I have reported the bug. TIA for your help. Alain De: "Christopher Lam" À: cag...@free.fr Cc: "gnucash-user" Envoyé: Mercredi 4 Avril 2018 20:41:37 Objet: Re: Unrealized loss Hi Alain, please report bug and we can track

Sending data to my accountant

2018-04-05 Thread Roache Ian
What is the best way to get my gnucash data to my accountant for him to check and prepare my tax return? Is there a way I can do this if he doesn’t have the gnucash platform? TIA Ian ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: Register Font Size in Version 3

2018-04-05 Thread cicko
Hi, George, Please have a look at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3 and do write back with your results so that the page can be updated if needed, and eventually help other users. Cheers, Alen -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

Re: Gnucash 3.0 Build error

2018-04-05 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:56:01PM -0700, DaveC49 wrote: > fatal error: gdk/gdk.h: No such file or directory This looks like the problem. Maybe you don't have the relevant package installed. On my Ubuntu 16.04 system, I think that's "libgtk-3-dev". - Eric