Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
ccounts. Dale On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:23 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:  The statement date is also in the past, so the default date is pretty much never right.  In a busy account, my date would match.  While the statement date might be later than the last included transaction, ther

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
The statement date is also in the past, so the default date is pretty much never right.  In a busy account, my date would match.  While the statement date might be later than the last included transaction, there is no value in the later date, since no transactions exist in the intervening time

[GNC] Semi-Floating decimal in stock shares

2019-08-19 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Trivial bug/suggestion: If it is proper to remove one trailing fractional zero from a three decimal to the right of the point stock shares or balance column number, why not remove 2 trailing zeros, or even 3?  Or keep all three places and have the decimal points in line?  Make up your mind!

[GNC] List subjects

2019-08-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
The digest should give subject and a divider between digested messages!  Sorted by subject would be really nice, too! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] List subjects

2019-08-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
pm, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: > The digest should give subject and a divider between digested messages! >  Sorted by subject would be really nice, too! We just use mailman, so any feature requests would need to be implemented by them.  AFAIK there is no configuration optio

Re: [GNC] List subjects

2019-08-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
disable these via the General Options page. See also README.USERAGENT for more information. -Original Message- From: Derek Atkins To: David G. Pickett Cc: gnucash-user Sent: Sat, Aug 24, 2019 1:47 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] List subjects On Sat, August 24, 2019 1:41 pm, David G. Pickett via

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business

2019-08-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
features? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_Part_1161816_1163186663.158338880" --=_Part_1161816_1163186663.158338880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perhaps make meal pledges a security, like

Re: [GNC] List subjects

2019-08-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
-Original Message- From: Derek Atkins To: David G. Pickett Cc: gnucash-user Sent: Sat, Aug 24, 2019 2:35 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] List subjects David, On Sat, August 24, 2019 2:23 pm, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: > PS: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/faq.html > Q. M

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?

2020-12-21 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Are there options to not replicate the full file? - Loading the data from multiple files would not take any appreciable additional time. - Loading the recent data first might save times, as really old data is off screen in most accounts. - The algorithm could even take into account

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Smaller backup files: Time division, Since or Incremental?

2020-12-22 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
file currently, and is it compressed or uncompressed? Edit / Preferences / General /  Compress files. Thanks Geoff = On 22/12/2020 3:28 am, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: > Are there options to not replicate the full file? > >    >    - Loading the data from multiple

Re: [GNC] Entering a sell in a stock account has magic number changer

2021-01-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I see the same divide by 100 when I duplicate an old transaction, split, and enter a value, then leave that cell.  It is never proper to modify inputs without a dialog except to reformat trailing zeros after the decimal, add comma thousands separators and similar presentation artifacts.

Re: [GNC] Entering a sell in a stock account has magic number changer

2021-01-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Plus, if I enter a value and tab or shift-tab, it divides it by 100.  If I enter a number, I expect it to tay put unless there is a dialog asking my permission to change it!! -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Tue, Jan 5, 2021 10:14 am

[GNC] Entering a sell in a stock account has magic number changer

2021-01-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I am trying to enter my RMD sales of securities, and when I enter the value, price or shares it gets divided by 100 gratuitously with no dialog, and if I adjust all three numbers and accept a price change, it divides other numbers gratuitously.  This is very counter-intuitive, frustrating,

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

2021-05-14 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
20.04 LTS On Friday, May 14, 2021, 10:19:49 AM EDT, David G. Pickett wrote: Yes, I am 'as out of the box', and no, dark and light have the same problem. -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Thu, May 13, 2021 9:45 am Subject:

[GNC] Cannot always over-type, clear selected amounts

2021-05-18 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Sometimes GNUCash gets in a mood, and I cannot over-type or delete selected amount fields in a transaction.  I can click aside to deselect and then backspace/delete the digits, decimal and type in the correct number, but I wonder what happened to the usual GUI behaviors?  I run Ubuntu 20.04.2

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

2021-05-14 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Yes, I am 'as out of the box', and no, dark and light have the same problem. -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Thu, May 13, 2021 9:45 am Subject: Transparent background on selected Transfer choice I run GNUCash on Ubuntu LTS Linux, and when I

Re: [GNC] A Linux utility/program to print ABA and account

2021-05-20 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
utility/program to print ABA and account > On May 20, 2021, at 7:32 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Check numbers are in magnetic ink for reading by MICR scanners, but . . . > > I deposit many checks by photo, so any print would probably work

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

2021-05-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
How do I force the install of a higher version than Software Updater allows? -Original Message- From: Eric Coates To: Chris Good ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Cc: dgpick...@aol.com Sent: Fri, May 28, 2021 7:07 am Subject: Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice Good

Re: [GNC] A Linux utility/program to print ABA and account

2021-05-20 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Check numbers are in magnetic ink for reading by MICR scanners, but . . . I deposit many checks by photo, so any print would probably work for the digits, but . . . You need the symbols that divide the fields: transit mark, slash, dash, paragraph or on-us marks.  I would be amazed if Unicode

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

2021-05-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > How do I force the install of a higher version than Software Updater > allows? > > > -Original Message- > From: Eric Coates > To: Chris Good ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Cc: dgpick...@aol.c

Re: [GNC] Transparent background on selected Transfer choice

2021-06-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I do not understand why Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is denied later releases.  How can you maintain a family of products when you leave some kids behind on the side of the road for two years?  I do not care what release number is fixed under.  I do want the fix to flow to me through the normal channels as

[GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-06-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I got so envious of gnucash 4.6 users that I used flatpak to install it on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (the current LTS).  The procedure to run it is a bit odd but I followed the product specific bits of the online instructions. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak It did not tell me what it was going t

Re: [GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-07-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Bug: Entering price on price database - add, prices auto round to to places ! Securities - edit says it is trades in 1/1000.  Cannot find a setting to control this. -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 3:42 pm Subject: GNUCash

Re: [GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-06-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
First bug: Reconcile no longer picks up the final balance from the specified date!  Was this someone else's idea of an improvement? -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 3:42 pm Subject: GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I got

Re: [GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-06-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
PS: Balance feth seems to work if I type a date, but maybe not when selecting date from the popup calendar? -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 10:28 am Subject: Re: GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS First bug: Reconcile no

Re: [GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-06-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I take that back; reconcile balance fetch works in stock accounts but not in bank accounts? -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 11:21 am Subject: Re: GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS PS: Balance feth seems to work if I type a

Re: [GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-06-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Second bug: Split wizard and reconcile: Price error in wizard but split done, and then reconcile (again not picking up balance of date) needed to ignore split item on right, leave split item on left, to get balance???  Subsequent reconcile did not show open item on right. -Original

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 219, Issue 51

2021-06-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
ubject: Re: [GNC] GNUCash 4.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Message-ID:     <2f61423209c04633f43431dd131fcb54.squir...@mail2.ihtfp.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 After you select the date from the calendar do you tab or click out of the field? -derek On Wed, June 30, 2021 11:21 am,

Re: [GNC] Cannot always over-type, clear selected amounts

2021-05-19 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
.  If it gets really bad I sometimes need to re-boot.  So far, I have figured out that it is not overloading the cpus or using enough RAM to need to swap memory. On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:27 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Sometimes GNUCash gets in a mood, and I cannot over-type

Re: [GNC] [MAINT] Unplanned network outage

2021-04-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
$5/mo. for not having to worry about disk crash, ups, obsolescent CPUs, video cards, dust in my box, hackers, etc. seems nice.  I use GNUCash on a Linux, so XWindows either way!  But of course there is loss of control.  It'd be nice to back up files on a second cloud vendor, and maybe on your

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
, Apr 2, 2021 at 1:45 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: It'd be nice if the transfers from tax deferred accounts (401k, IRA) to not tax deferred showed as taxable income on the tax report.  Reverse transfers might also be listed as tax deductions

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
to W-2's, or whatever. Isn't that what you are looking for? On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:  Moving it twice to tag a transfer is not cool!     On Saturday, April 3, 2021, 07:13:28 PM EDT, David G. Pickett wrote:    Certainly the marking could

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: It'd be nice if the transfers from tax deferred accounts (401k, IRA) to not tax deferred showed as taxable income on the tax report.  Reverse transfers might also be listed as tax deductions. ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
it is already possible to assign transfers from tax advantaged accounts as well as other accounts that trigger 1099s in the US to the respective forms in the tax report. On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 1:45 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: It'd be nice if the transfers from tax deferred accounts

[GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
It'd be nice if the transfers from tax deferred accounts (401k, IRA) to not tax deferred showed as taxable income on the tax report.  Reverse transfers might also be listed as tax deductions. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

[GNC] Updated system/gnucash now must reconcile twice.

2021-03-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS GnuCash Version: 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29), this week I have to reconcile twice, as the first time the first dialog is given an OK, it does not bring up the big dialog or reconcile, bu the second time works like before.  Maybe the underlying system calls have

Re: [GNC] Updated system/gnucash now must reconcile twice.

2021-03-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
that.  Specifically what does or does not happen in your case? On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:42 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS GnuCash Version: 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29), this week I have to reconcile twice, as the first time the first dialog is given

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-03-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
if no new GnuCash version was announced — sometimes runsudo flatpak update # sudo is only required for systemwide installations On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:31, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I did an apt remove and apt install, and now /usr/bin/gnucash=3.8 supports the finance quote agai

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-02-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Log has another clue: 021-02-23 00:01:01 Start GnuCash_price_cron /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash 2021-02-23 00:01:01 Killing gnucash hard 2021-02-23 00:01:04 Removing any lock file 2021-02-23 00:01:04 Adding price quotesFound Finance::Quote

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-02-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Installed that, got this: gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_locale.so.1.74.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Fri, Feb 26, 2021 6:18 pm Subject: Re: gnucash

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-02-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
- From: Tommy Trussell To: David G. Pickett Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Sat, Feb 27, 2021 4:56 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 8:36 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: PS: I see the version I run is under flatpak

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-03-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
> On Mar 4, 2021, at 5:39 AM, David G. Pickett wrote: > > PS: Yes, the 3.9 splash says git 3.7.222, so who decided to have 2 > conflicting revisions on the same executable? and On Feb 27, 2021, at 6:25 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Good question!  I have been r

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-03-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
vailable via flatpak for a while now... You should — also if no new GnuCash version was announced — sometimes runsudo flatpak update # sudo is only required for systemwide installations On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:31, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I did an apt remove and apt install, and now

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-03-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
required for systemwide installations On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:31, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I did an apt remove and apt install, and now /usr/bin/gnucash=3.8 supports the finance quote again.  My gui is still 3.9 flatpak, unless it bugs out on me, and then I can use a term to use 3.8

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-03-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
PS: Yes, the 3.9 splash says git 3.7.222, so who decided to have 2 conflicting revisions on the same executable? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-03-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
rm. >> Info: org.freedesktop.Platform is end-of-life, with reason: The >> Freedesktop 1.6 runtime is no longer supported and does not receive >> security updates. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a >> supported runtime. >> Info: org.freedesktop.Platfo

[GNC] Fwd: www.gnucash.org

2021-02-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
gnucash should have geographically diversified web servers? -Original Message- From: Linas Vepstas To: David G. Pickett Sent: Fri, Feb 26, 2021 6:18 pm Subject: Re: www.gnucash.org That's a question for the gnucash-user mailing list. I am not involved in spinning out releases. or in

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-02-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
be interesting to know how you got gnucash installed. Does it come from the ubuntu repos, is it a flatpak or a snap ? Did you build gnucash yourself ? Regards, Geert Op zaterdag 27 februari 2021 00:30:57 CET schreef David G. Pickett via gnucash-user: > Installed that, got this: gnucash: er

Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-02-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
gnucash get updated at that time ? Would also be interesting to know how you got gnucash installed. Does it come from the ubuntu repos, is it a flatpak or a snap ? Did you build gnucash yourself ? Regards, Geert Op zaterdag 27 februari 2021 00:30:57 CET schreef David G. Pickett via gnucash

[GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

2021-02-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
On 1/23 this stopped working (I run it weekday evenings).  I went to the security editor for my DIA stock, which was using yahoo_json, and on the edit screen it had the notation finance quote not installed properly.  I ran  /usr/bin/gnc-fq-check, then /usr/bin/gnc-fq-update, which did some

Re: [GNC] Tax deferred account transfers suggestion

2021-04-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Yes, GNUCash does not do this, it was a suggestion, see the subject, for account structures to enhance the tax report. Yes, ROTH's are not taxable.  The suggestion is about IRA and 401K accounts that are not ROTH, where the overwhelming probability is that transfers in from other account types

[GNC] What difference ubuntu universe and ubuntu universe update?

2021-02-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I went to reinstall gnucash after several crashes, and found two versions competing for my interest, no dates on them, no explanation of the difference. I was running 3.9, but the download seems to be 3.8b+.  Both have 2019 dates!  3.8 does not crash on scheduled template update amounts.

Re: [GNC] Crash when updating scheduled template amount, repeatedly.

2021-02-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
about it? On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 3:15 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Paying expenses with cryptocurrency

2021-08-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I am sure the accountants would not like the idea, but it opens the subject of having different accounts in different currencies.  This seems less revolutionary in an international commerce world, like having a London account in Pounds Sterling.  You could buy with any account in the currency

Re: [GNC] Cash Accounting Method

2021-09-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I am no accountant, but it seems to me you could enter the invoiced transactions for the future due date, not reconciled, update the date and reconcile when paid, delete them or push them out when unpaid, possibly with a late fee.  Like paper books, the media should not constrain the accounting

[GNC] Stopping transfer popup dialog

2021-09-19 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I have most of my CC accounts set right, but some pop up transfer dialog boxes when I reconcile.  How do I turn off the pop up transfer dialog on each account?  Should it be hard to find? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

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

2021-10-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Can't GNUCash find an open source web app that does structured forums in place of email full on copied replies upon replies in a long, unstructured text string?  I the 90's I used a MULTICS app called forum that: - kept track of which discussions were new to me and  - for those that

Re: [GNC] clearing reconciled transactions

2021-12-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Does shift-click allow extending the selection from one box/the most recent box clicked to many (too lazy to try!), and if not, can we add such a (relatively common and established) gui behavior? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu binary fairly dated

2021-12-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Install using flatpak, which version is much later. ___ 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

Re: [GNC] Bitcoin is legal currency in El Salvador - why notadd BTC?

2021-12-09 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I would think you can treat it as a security and probably get quotes imported just like for stocks.  But I suppose that begs the question of how easily you could receive BTC or the like into one of your security accounts.  Does GNUCash do income in securities?

[GNC] Post crash recovery log file suggestion

2022-01-15 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As 4.9 does abort ungracefully from time to time, I grow weary of reentering my unsaved transactions.  I suggest that you post them to a new sort of log file as I go, so I do not have to save megabytes of almost duplicate files so often to avoid this.  Of course, if I leave the cursor on a

Re: [GNC] Post crash recovery log file suggestion

2022-01-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
crash recovery log file suggestion > On Jan 15, 2022, at 11:10 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > As 4.9 does abort ungracefully from time to time, I grow weary of reentering > my unsaved transactions.  I suggest that you post them to a new sort of log > fil

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I understand that one characteristic/weakness of the double entry system is that you cannot tag a transfer with an income or expense account.  Still, accounting programs help prepare 1099R's, so there must be a way.  Keeping deferred tax items a separate set of books would make income visible

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-16 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
OK, not anything like an accountant, so my books have just asset, liability, income, expense.  Equity might be a better place for the IRA/401K, since it is an asset with a varying value and an attached tax liability TBD.  So, how should I have set up such 100% pretax deferred income accounts to

Re: [GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Lots of fun interest here!  Not exactly looking for accounting advice, except how to properly encode this well understood activity so it generates a tax report item. Michael D Novack seems to be hinting how to do this, creating the 100% pretax IRA/401K account in equity and, assuming it is

[GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-10 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
When I move money from an IRA or 401K account to my bank account and the tax man, that is all a taxable distribution, but GNUCash mostly sees a transfer.  How do I capture the income? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

[GNC] IRA/401K income detection

2022-03-10 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
When I move money from an IRA or 401K account to my bank account and the tax man, that is all a taxable distribution, but GNUCash mostly sees a transfer.  How do I capture the income? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] GNUCash closes when I edit a value

2022-02-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I had this occasionally, actually a program crash on some bug, but it cleared up, perhaps because I update the code regularly.  Good luck! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Sat, Apr 2, 2022 12:48 pm Subject: Re: 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart Flatpak says no updates, Help About says: 4.10+(2022-03-26) -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To:

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Flatpak says no updates, Help About says: 4.10+(2022-03-26) -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Sat, Apr 2, 2022 12:48 pm Subject: 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart I got a completely blank screen from 4.10 Net Worth Line Chart, although if I

[GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I got a completely blank screen from 4.10 Net Worth Line Chart, although if I export as HTML, the table does show up at the bottom of the blank page.  I used defaults except General: date 4/2/21 - 4/2/22, Price Closest, Display: Show table. ___

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart > On Apr 2, 2022, at 9:52 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS > > -Original Message- > From: David G. Pickett > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Sent: Sat, Apr 2, 2022 1

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Sounds a lot like https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798486 except that it's supposedly fixed in the 4.10 flatpak. Does running GnuCash like  WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCashmake any difference? Regards,John Ralls On Apr 4, 2022, at 2:57 PM, David G. Pickett v

Re: [GNC] Unable to obtain Price data

2022-03-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I run mine after midnight on cron (Linux) so speed is no issue and less congestion, but to do so I kill any gnucash running, hopefully not losing uncommitted transactions (the whole change line to commit bit being easy to overlook)! ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Canadian Mortgage

2022-02-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Banks here cannot round up (charge above the contracted/advertised rate), so their calculations are truncated.  However, many are lured into using computer binary floating point numbers to do money (Sybase, SQL Server), and it can lose a tiny fraction of a cent, and so lose the last cent (1.0 /

Re: [GNC] Post crash recovery log file suggestion

2022-01-16 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
ave just before embarking upon some more risky activity such as a OFX import or after downloading security prices... On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM john wrote: > On Jan 15, 2022, at 11:10 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > As 4.9 does abort ungracefully from time

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
h/issues/24 > > Maybe it will be fixed in a future release of flatpak. > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:04 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I suppose there is a way for flatpak to remove it and reinstall it. > > If you need to reinstall gnucash,

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
should be handled by the GnuCash 4.10 flatpak release. The canberra-gtk-module noise is harmless, and documented in  https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3521. Regards,John Ralls On Apr 5, 2022, at 7:33 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Despite all the errors/warnings, much better

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-08 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
fixed in the repo. Testing those nightlies is of course welcome and encouraged, but you should do it with a copy of your book or a test book.  Regards,John Ralls On Apr 7, 2022, at 4:56 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Which one, flatpak offers 1000+ GNUCash options

[GNC] Inventory

2023-09-12 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Does GNUCash do inventory at least on a small scale?  It seems like a security or stock, you could define a price for sales or a recent/current cost for supplies, and when you sell or order it might be like a stock sale or order. ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Bad date not caught

2023-10-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
String to date parsers provide a way to tell if the entire string was not digested, see 'man strptime' that says it returns a pointer to where it stopped, should be at the end of the string. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

[GNC] Morningstar dumping free services, free quotes might be under attack?

2022-06-25 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As I looked at my publicly traded portfolio today on Morningstar, they told me they are dropping the free basic services.  It's a sad trend after so many years. I am worried we might lose some of our gnuCash free quote servers.  Of course, gnuCash perl quotes itself can only be modified by

Re: [GNC] Currency quotes stopped

2022-09-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I noticed Yahoo stopped carrying the price of gold as XAUUSD=X, so I guess any symbol on any service can disappear, it is just odd for it to disappear for currency or gold or metal.  Of course, they have to get it from someone else, so they have little control.  You might be able to find a new

[GNC] Obsolete library warning

2022-10-21 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
My weekly update check find this warning!  Will gnucash move to a different library? dgp@dgp-p6803w:~$ flatpak update -yLooking for updates…Info: org.gnome.Platform//41 is end-of-life, with reason:   The GNOME 41 runtime is no longer supported as of September 17, 2022. Please ask your

[GNC] Price update works but complains a lot

2022-09-09 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I update prices nightly from Yahoo as JSON with a cron job, and it logs an ugly error or two as it does its work, successfully.  Any suggestions? flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote v1.53 RC1 Available for Download

2022-10-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I have the flatpak install on Ubuntu, and 1.49 was fine, but better is the enemy of good enough.  I downloaded and extracted, but was not sure how to install.  I googled up  https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote-install.html and 

Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

2022-08-16 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As xml is text, and xml storage is used in my gnucash, one might add securities by running the *.gnucash through gunzip, add in the text, and run it back through gzip, unless there is a nasty checksum in there somewhere?  Keep a copy of the original! I pulled this from my file using shell

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2023-01-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
If open on multiple machines, does gnuCash notice save on one machine in open session on other machine, as many apps do when the local copy is updated ?   Should it? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2023-01-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
r machine, there is a warning that the LCK file is present. (I don't know if that was what you intended to ask, but I have done this a couple of times by accident). On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:10 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: If open on multiple machines, does gnuCash notice save on one machi

Re: [GNC] Stock spinoff

2022-12-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I usually Google search out the OCC Memo on the split or spinoff, as it does a precise analysis of the basis.  (OCC Options Clearing Corp manages stock option contracts traded on Options markets). ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] URGENT: Fake gnucash website with fake download,

2022-12-11 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Even riskier is clicking a link with a Cyrillic a (thanks unicode utf8), looks great and very wrong.  Don't go by eye.  Use a trusted bookmark?  Use gnucash.org?  host names are case insensitive. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] GNUcash is using 538MB

2022-12-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
People get excited about this all the time, sadly!  RAM usage is more a developer concern.  Modern OS use virtual memory, so the RAM is redistributed based on usage.  A page of RAM (usually 4,096 bytes) may be true virtual memory, where modified pages are backed up in a swap file, or it may

Re: [GNC] GNUcash is using 538MB

2022-12-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
If we are talking disk space, my personal finances and lots of daily stock quotes for several years fit into a gnucash file of 2.8MB, but in my dir I have 239MB of 92 files accumulated for this quarter, each a full snapshot of one moment.  This is gzip'd xml, not any RDBMS flavored version.  If

Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters

2022-12-21 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Also be careful to copy, but not transcribe, as the Cyrillic alphabet has an 'а' that looks very like the Roman 'a' in most font choices, to the delight of many hackers! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

2023-03-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
It is, generally a military style numbering, so the '.' is not a decimal point, more a tab, not an alphanumeric sort but a numeric sort.  One AT project started their order numbers at 100,000,000 so they were always 9 digits with 900M headroom.  Maybe we could make the first revision after 4 as

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

2023-03-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I we can pop to 900, we can pop to 100.  -Original Message- From: aeg To: David G. Pickett Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 3:29 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers David, I like your idea, as its logical sequencing would obviously be clearer, but as

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-14 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Stopped working again just that quick: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get -- /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not exist in filesystem, trying to use abstract socket instead. ** (process:164114): WARNING **:

Re: [GNC] Problems with Finance::Quote and GnuCash Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25)

2023-03-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Poking aroun more, I see in Edit Security DIA it says "Warning: Finance Quote is not installed properly.". Checking my cron job log, it says: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not

Re: [GNC] Problems with Finance::Quote and GnuCash Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25)

2023-03-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I see since it updated to 5.0 the quotes are not coming in from my daily cron and the get quotes button is grayed out, so you broke something.  Any concrete suggestions on specific actions on how to reactivate this, which was running fine in 4.13 ?

[GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8

2023-03-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As the month end approaches, and 5.0 cannot see my Quotes setup, I did a flatpak uninstall and an Ubuntu Software install, going back to 4.8, and voila, my Quotes work again. Let me know if you ever release a 5.? that can pick up a good Quotes install from 4.?, so I can return to what seems

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