Re: [GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-30 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:51:45PM +0100, Fred Bone wrote: > On 29 August 2020 at 11:40, Chris Green said: > > > I have been doing some reading around this restricted/unrestricted > > funds issue. > > > > I think in reality we have *no* restricted funds in our P

[GNC] Short cuts for things

2020-09-09 Thread Chris Green
Is there a quick way to: Get to the 'Accounts' tab, in order to select the next account for entering a transaction. 'Enter' a transaction - i.e. a key to hit instead of having to click on the + sign. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Be careful with `petty cash'

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Green
e money is handled by the organisers (not me). The only cash I get to see is Sunday collections and the contents of the offertory box. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Green
, year) going back several years. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane,

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-11 Thread Chris Green
was x hours or y days ago. It works because a file that doesn't change only exists in one place and the files you see in each hourly/daily/weekly backup are [hard] links to the same file, so it only uses space for one copy of the file. -- Chris Green _

[GNC] How to get a sequential list of all transactions?

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
be able to 'eyeball' the entries. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gman

[GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
balances but the result made no sense at all to me. Having entered an opening balance I'd expect the balance sheet to show me that amount but GnuCash just did a decrease and a balancing increase in the Equity account which doesn't really make much sense. -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:57:27AM -0700, Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2020-09-08 05:52, Chris Green wrote: > > ... I can't work out how to enter > > opening balances for the two accounts we have - a current account and > > a savings account (which is basically the buildin

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:35:28AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, September 8, 2020 10:29 am, Chris Green wrote: > > > I'm feeling my way with these PCC accounts but I do feel as if Gn

Re: [GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
'Opening Balances' placeholder in Equity, isn't that where your opening balance credits to the bank accounts come from? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
required. > > Some items need to be shown or accessible for statistics, for grant > applications or for statutory reporting. There could be any number of > reasons behind "we've always done it that way" :-). Yes, I will be asking at the next PCC meeting and will keep the separation

Re: [GNC] Help - entering opening balances

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:05:46AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, September 8, 2020 8:52 am, Chris Green wrote: > > I am at the stage of lots of rude words at the moment! :-) > > > > I am just starting to try and set up GnuCash for the PCC accounts and &

[GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
t too much! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please

Re: [GNC] Is there an 'easy' way to have a transaction with 'sub-transactions' as it were?

2020-09-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:35:28AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, September 8, 2020 10:29 am, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm feeling my way with these PCC accounts but I do feel as if GnuCash > > will do quite well for me. > > > > Anyway, next silly qu

Re: [GNC] Be careful with `petty cash'

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 05:42:05PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > This probably won’t be an issue for Chris Green, who would be better served > by an Undeposited Funds asset account. > Yes, I think you're right. We don't have any 'petty cash' in any of the normal senses. We d

Re: [GNC] Short cuts for things

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:36:16AM -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 9/9/20 7:07 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Is there a quick way to: > > > > Get to the 'Accounts' tab, in order to select the next account for > > entering a transaction. > > I

Re: [GNC] Is there a Report for All Expenses Paid between Date A & Date B

2020-09-12 Thread Chris Green
necessarily > when paid. That transaction is separate from the payment. > Which is why cash accounting is so much simpler for small businesses (and PCCs). It's just much more like the way one understands it too. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user m

Re: [GNC] Negative numbers

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
big projects which have paid for and open source versions running in parallel. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 03:34:10PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I am running GnuCash 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on [x]ubuntu 20.04. > > I have started keeping a small PCC accounts with this but decided I > wanted to move to storing the data in sqlite rather than the d

[GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
Data Format I'm offered is XML. Is this because sqlite storage is a compile time option that hasn't been included in the Ubuntu build, or is there something else I need to do? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-13 Thread Chris Green
> installed. Search for libdbi-dbd-sqlite and similar. > Thank you Derek, spot on! I needed to install libdbd-sqlite3 and now GnuCash offers to save in sqlite3. I was confused by a web site (not GnuCash) that said:- From version 4.2, Gnucash supports PostrgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3

Re: [GNC] Short cuts for things

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
nsaction/account) should, by default, save a new transaction. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you ar

Re: [GNC] How to get a sequential list of all transactions?

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:09:16PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Is there a way to get a simple sequential list of all transactions in > all accounts? > > I noticed a transaction with an incorrect date (I hadn't "moved it > back" to the right date when entering the yea

Re: [GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 08:58:04AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, September 10, 2020 8:32 am, Chris Green wrote: > > > > When does data entered get saved? Also are there different 'levels' > > of save as it were? > > Yes, there are differe

[GNC] I'm still a bit confused about when things get saved.

2020-09-10 Thread Chris Green
to field. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https

Re: [GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux & Windows machines?

2020-10-12 Thread Chris Green
our machines (across your home LAN or the 'public' internet, as required). It's not instant, when you change a file on machine A it takes a few seconds to be updated on machine B but for a single user it's excellent. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-

Re: [GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux & Windows machines?

2020-10-12 Thread Chris Green
excellent and works 'transparently' once set up, no need for the user to do anything to keep files synchronised. It's pretty simple to set up too. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or t

Re: [GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux & Windows machines?

2020-10-12 Thread Chris Green
s all with each other and it copes OK but that level of complication seems unnecessary to me, I have my synchronisation as a 'star' network. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or

Re: [GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux & Windows machines?

2020-10-12 Thread Chris Green
de (and other files) across systems. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble

Re: [GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux & Windows machines?

2020-10-12 Thread Chris Green
laptop and then the desktop and virtual machine wikis get changed as well a few seconds later. (It's a personal wiki so only I change files, can't expect this to work with multiple users!) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user

[GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-26 Thread Chris Green
. Is there anyone else using GnuCash for this? Thank you for any/all help that anyone can offer. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:43PM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > On 26 Aug 2020, at 11:21, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I have just taken over as treasurer of a (very) small church Parochial > > Church Council. The existing accounts are all wholly manual and I > >

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 11:40:03AM +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On 29 Aug 2020, at 10:39, Chris Green wrote: > >> > > Well it sounds as if you know the ins and outs then! :-) > > I seem to have got away with it so far, with the help of charity-friendly &

[GNC] Setting up for restricted/unrestricted PCC accounts - what's a reasonable approach.

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
income It feels like the first is right as one can then still do overall expenses versus income more easily, or have I got it completely wrong and I shouldn't have restricted/unrestricted placeholders at all? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
re are several then I can have a hierachy with a 'placeholder' restricted and underneath it 'new roof', 'building repairs' or whatever. However I think this may be overkill, we aren't going to be that lucky. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
e various options > for accounting for restricted funds, grants, etc. isn't THAT the problem as > opposed to "doing it using gnucash"? > Well, yes, but the existing paper system is hardly transparent! :-) I'm really only trying to work things out from what has to be on the annual ret

[GNC] Further to restricted/unrestricted funds

2020-08-29 Thread Chris Green
purpose and is often long term and may actually (though not necessarily) be an endowment or some such. I don't think I need to manage 'restricted' funds as we don't have any in our tiny little church. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-22 Thread Chris Green
) and read their Talk sections for more current info and state > of the edits. > As above, nothing to do with 'building' IMHO. It should be in the basic 'installation' notes. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

[GNC] Is there any easy way to produce monthly reports?

2020-09-25 Thread Chris Green
reports that show each month's figures in columns on a single 'sheet'? Surely lots of organisations want monthly figures. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe

Re: [GNC] Is there any easy way to produce monthly reports?

2020-09-25 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 12:24:02PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > On Fri, September 25, 2020 12:05 pm, Chris Green wrote: > > The auditor here likes to see monthly figures so I need to produce > > Cash Flow or Profit and Loss reports or something similar for each > > mon

Re: [GNC] Report headings, can one separate the company name from the report name?

2020-09-30 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:04:28PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I have just been looking at and printing some reports, the 'Company > Name' set in Properties is just put on the same line as the report > name. > > Is there any way to get the Company Name on a line by itse

Re: [GNC] Report headings, can one separate the company name from the report name?

2020-10-01 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 12:23:02PM +0800, Christopher Lam wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, 12:42 am Chris Green, wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:04:28PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > I have just been looking at and printing some reports, the 'Company > > > N

[GNC] Report headings, can one separate the company name from the report name?

2020-09-28 Thread Chris Green
I have just been looking at and printing some reports, the 'Company Name' set in Properties is just put on the same line as the report name. Is there any way to get the Company Name on a line by itself at the top of the report? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] 8.1.1. Find Transaction

2020-10-03 Thread Chris Green
a lot older I think, I'm in my 70s and have known about REs all of my professional life (software engineer) and I suspect they were around before I came across them. :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] New user - anyone else using GnuCash for PCC (church) accounts? Advice?

2020-09-20 Thread Chris Green
to put funds designated for the building into the same fund, this isn't strictly correct but for the very small size of our church/PCC it makes sense. If one has a lot of separate restricted and/or designated funds it must be very difficult to keep track of them all. -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-21 Thread Chris Green
alled by default because it's not listed as a dependency. For information the library needed is called libdbd-sqlite3 in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux world. Where should/would this be documented? I'm happy to put things in motion to get it done if it isn't a

Re: [GNC] Can't "Save As" to sqlite, is it a compile option?

2020-09-21 Thread Chris Green
indows and Mac? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see

Re: [GNC] Button1 & Button2

2020-10-23 Thread Chris Green
tively, but with customizable > hardware, directional references were discouraged. But, I'm not any sort > of expert. > That's certainly my understanding in the Linux world if the original reference was actually to mouse buttons and not on-screen buttons. -- Chris Green _

Re: [GNC] Button1 & Button2

2020-10-23 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 08:20:52AM -0600, Bert Riding wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:21:27 +0100 > Chris Green wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 05:30:43PM -0400, D. via gnucash-user wrote: > > > I was under the impression that "Button1" refers to the

Re: [GNC] No PDF button

2020-11-24 Thread Chris Green
it's probably easy to fix by installing the old PDF renderer on the new machine, it's probably still available from the repositories. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] systemd / sqlite 3 file not found error

2020-12-13 Thread Chris Green
tpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes > get /path/to/Books-sql.gnucash > Use anacron, put the thing you want to run in /etc/cron.weekly. On many systems it will actually use systemd to implement things but anacron is the generic way of doing w

Re: [GNC] List Replies

2020-11-18 Thread Chris Green
t that's just one hop of many and there is absolutely no guarantee that any of the other hops are also encrypted. Treat it like a postcard, unless you actually encrypt the message itself. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] List Replies

2020-11-17 Thread Chris Green
a strong opinion because my mail program has a third reply type called 'List Reply' which sorts things out for me however a mailing list is configured. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription pre

Re: [GNC] Cannot Obtain Lock error?

2020-11-07 Thread Chris Green
happens to have a new feature they 'really, really' need. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are usi

Re: [GNC] Cannot Obtain Lock error?

2020-11-07 Thread Chris Green
letters both before and after my name if necessary. I was just trying to aim my comment at non-computer people and, anyway, it is beginning to drift away from the original issue. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To upda

[GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Chris Green
to record things twice but on the other hand the level of detail required for the claim to HMRC is much more than one wants to have in the annual accounts. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Chris Green
> > I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. > Oops, the grocer's apostophe has appeared! I know there are other similar charity treasurers hereabouts. :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gn

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-29 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:26:08AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 10/29/2020 5:18 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I am treasurer for a small PCC in the UK. > > > > I know there are other similar charity treasurer's hereabouts. > > > > How do you handle Gif

Re: [GNC] Managing UK Gift-Aid

2020-10-31 Thread Chris Green
do >that, I don't know. (I just know PayPal is a nightmare.) And of course >they can't do the cash. It is rather a can of worms isn't it! I'm beginning to think that maybe my strategy of scanning and storing the scans of donors envelopes may well be the least worst solution. -- Chris

[GNC] Where does Gnucash remember what it did last - I want it to forget!

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
removed ~/.cache/gnucash but still it insists on opening the same accounts file. It is saved *somewhere* in my home directory because if I start gnucash as another user I get an 'empty' startup. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:03:48PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 1/20/21 8:24 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:04:52AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > NB: there is no need to start over every year; GnuCash hapily accounts for > > > multipl

Re: [GNC] Where does Gnucash remember what it did last - I want it to forget!

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
ormation is stored in dconf somewhere so isn't really to be played with. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-use

Re: [GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

2021-01-21 Thread Chris Green
would exactly explain what I'm seeing, thank you. With sqlite it would, of course, be OK to use a lock file as it's not a client/server system but I suppose it just shares the way things work with mySql/postgresql. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing li

[GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
Is there any easy way to create a set of empty copies of an existing set of accounts so I can start the new year easily? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe

[GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
but running 'gnucash general.gnucash' in the new location brings up the error box about another copy running. There *isn't* another copy running, I've closed it down properly (and I've also tried restarting the system). So why can't GnuCash start with the file in the new location? -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:04:52AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, January 20, 2021 8:33 am, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:23:23AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> The lock file is created in the same director

Re: [GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
Jan 2021 13:33:33 + Chris Green wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:23:23AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The lock file is created in the same directory as the data file. > > > Is that directory not writeable? That

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:46:35AM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > On 2/3/21 3:47 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > I can't really work that way as I have two independent sets of > > accounts to manage. If you just swapped from one to the other within > > Gnucash I hate to think

Re: [GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:44:44AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > On Tue, February 2, 2021 9:37 am, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:07:07AM -0500, D. wrote: > >> > Is there any easy way to create a set of empty copies of an existing > >> > set o

Re: [GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Green
nucash newyear.gnucash" Click "Start anyway" when the lock file message pops up I then get a pop-up window saying "An error occurred while processing /home/chris/pcc/2020/newyear.gnucash" So how do I get this to work? -- Chris Green _

[GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Green
somewhere else to avoid cluttering the directory where I keep my accounts? Are the log files any use with sqlite or should I simply turn them off completely in preferences? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, February 2, 2021 10:03 am, Chris Green wrote: > [snip] > > Yes, that works, thanks Derek. I suppose it's not too onerous as I > > only do it once a year! :-) > > This begs the question:

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
02152933.log general.gnucash.20210202153145.log general.gnucash.20210202154835.log general.gnucash.20210202155038.log Which really is rather a pain! :-) -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
only (GUI) program that stays open long term on my system is my web browser, everything else is run as needed and then I exit. The system (a desktop PC) is on all the time though as it runs as my mailserver among other things. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
for the comprehensive answer. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gma

Re: [GNC] Log file preferences (using sqlite)

2021-02-03 Thread Chris Green
can't turn logging on and off or set the age when using sqlite, but I don't think that's really the intention of what it says. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to uns

Re: [GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

2021-02-02 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 12:27:22PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > HI, > > On Tue, February 2, 2021 12:07 pm, Chris Green wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tue, February 2, 2021 10:03 am,

Re: [GNC] GnuCash very slow to start up and quit

2021-06-14 Thread Chris Green
ll be worth trying. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane,

Re: [GNC] GnuCash very slow to start up and quit

2021-06-13 Thread Chris Green
e each year, apart from anything else it keeps the auditor happy (church accounts) and it certainly keeps it small. Could you maybe split your system somehow? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefe

Re: [GNC] Possible Ubuntu problems

2021-05-19 Thread Chris Green
uCash on two Ubuntu systems, one 20.10, the other 21.04 and I can thus say whether I am seeing the same or not. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists

Re: [GNC] [MAINT] Unplanned network outage

2021-04-29 Thread Chris Green
t were would be a virtual server, where you (Derek) have complete control of the system but nasty basic things like power supplies and continuous operation of the hardware is someone else's problem. Like a colo facility but much cheaper. My little virtual server costs only a little over £5/m

Re: [GNC] Gnucash won't load

2021-04-30 Thread Chris Green
permission is it? I believe the Mac's underlying OS is basically Unix and to allow a program to be run you need execute permission, just read and write is not enough. I don't know how you'd set this on Mac though I'm afraid. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user

[GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Chris Green
ct? Is this a known bug/issue or am I doing something wrong? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If

Re: [GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Chris Green
files can only really mean what thing can't it? If it does work as you suggest (as opposed to what it says) then what on earth does 'Forever' mean? While I'm here, if I set the retain time to one day who/what clears the files? Presumably they will only get cleared the next time I run Gnucash w

Re: [GNC] Setting "Retain log files" to "never" doesn't seem to work

2021-05-02 Thread Chris Green
Typically my complaint about inaccurate wording/description is full of typos! :-) Fixes inserted... On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > It's more than a 'misnomer', it simply wrong, especially given the three It's more than a 'misnomer', it's simply

Re: [GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:07:07AM -0500, D. wrote: > From: Chris Green > > > > Is there any easy way to create a set of empty copies of an existing > > set of accounts so I can start the new year easily? > > File -> Export -> Export Accounts > I just di

Re: [GNC] Where does gnucash put the lock file on Linux?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris Green
ve general.gnucash in two different places. Are you saying that this may cause problems and that I should rename my 'previous year' accounts to (for example) general2020.gnucash as well as moving them to a suitably named sub-directory? -- Chris Green ___ g

Re: [GNC] RTFM

2021-02-23 Thread Chris Green
y earlier today. > > in this message I am not replying to Adrian, only the list and CC to the > OP... > I wish people wouldn't do this, surely anyone you are replying to is subscribed to the list and will see your reply there. -- Chris Green ___ gnucas

[GNC] Selecting landscape for printing doesn't work

2021-04-13 Thread Chris Green
I am trying to print a report (Income Statement) in landscape and it simply ignores my selection in printer setup and prints in portrait mode which doesn't fit the page properly. Why is GnuCash apparently overriding my printer setting? This is GnuCash 3.10 on xubuntu Linux. -- Chris Green

Re: [GNC] Is the .gnc suffix now the default?

2021-08-24 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:00 PM Chris Green wrote: > > > I'm running gnucash 4.4 on Linux, > > ... > > > Also is it possible to have some sort of configuration file to set > > command l

Re: [GNC] Is the .gnc suffix now the default?

2021-08-24 Thread Chris Green
file extension. > : > > Original Message > > From: Chris Green > > Sent: Mon Aug 23 12:59:30 EDT 2021 > > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > Subject: [GNC] Is the .gnc suffix now the default? > > > > I'm running gnucash 4.4 on Linux, I se

[GNC] Is the .gnc suffix now the default?

2021-08-23 Thread Chris Green
to --nofile whenever I run gnucash as I just about never want the same accounts file twice. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org

[GNC] Anyone use Gnucash with Nationwide OFX downloads? Does it work?

2021-08-23 Thread Chris Green
Does anyone her use Gnucash with Nationwide (UK) OFX statement downloads? Does it work OK? I just want a way to have a searchable version of my Nationwide current account and credit card statements. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Information

2021-09-01 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 12:02:42PM -0500, alanmagnus wrote: > Is Gnucash yet compatible with the upcoming Mac OSX Monterey? Or, to put it another way, can the new Mac OSX Monterey run GnuCash? -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-09 Thread Chris Green
ill active on several Usenet newsgroups, one of the best and most active is uk.d-i-y. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-03 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 10:20:49AM -0600, David Carlson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:33 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 02:12:04PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 15:48, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [GNC] Using Gnucash to access file over flaky network

2021-11-24 Thread Chris Green
> Can anyone confirm whether it's reasonable to expect that Gnucash with > Sqlite backend over sshfs would have working locking and decent > resilience against data corruption in this scenario? Or point out any > obvious "gotcha" I'm missing? > I think a better approach might be

Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:05:05PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:45:23PM +0100, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Am 27.11.21 um 16:53 schrieb Chris Green: > > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot

Re: [GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 06:48:33AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 15:53 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it > > is at the moment. > > > > While entering transactions into

[GNC] Sometimes I can't post transactions - no 'transfer' account is offered

2021-11-27 Thread Chris Green
in this state. The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never seen this problem before though. I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10. -- Chris Green ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

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