Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user wrote: > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to import, but, I > cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any ideas? You have to export a QIF file from within quicken. Colin ___

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Liz
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 08:03:33 +0100 Colin Law wrote: > On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to > > import, but, I cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any > > ideas? > > You have to export a QIF fi

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Joe Farrell via gnucash-user
Thank you. On Sunday, July 9, 2017, 5:14:40 PM GMT+10, Liz wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 08:03:33 +0100 Colin Law wrote: > On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to > > import, but, I cannot find a Qif file in

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Joe Farrell via gnucash-user
Thanks to all who helped On Sunday, July 9, 2017, 5:04:04 PM GMT+10, Colin Law wrote: On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user wrote: > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to import, but, I > cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any ideas? You have

Re: Ver. 2.4.11 recovery

2017-07-09 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
We'll take this in steps On 7/9/2017 12:06 AM, james wrote: Hello, Good news, I lost a small 5 year history (but should have backups from last year. I've been really sick for 6 months, so my gnu-skills fuzzy, weak or just blank. When I fire up gnucash all I get is an empty version. I have 5 y

Re: Login help

2017-07-09 Thread pfwoolver...@juno.com
Dave, Thanks for the info. I viewed that page several times in recent weeks and never noticed the login point. Jean-David, Sorry for not being clear about what I wanted. -- Original Message -- From: Dave H To: "pfwoolver...@juno.com" Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: Login help

When importing transactions, what happens to non-identical data in the description and notes fields?

2017-07-09 Thread pfwoolver...@juno.com
I import transactions in QIF, GFX and CSV formats to GC 2.6.16. When I import transactions, GC proposes to match some of the imported transactions with transactions in my file. GC highlights these transactions in green. These transactions do not have identical data in the date, description,

Re: When importing transactions, what happens to non-identical data in the description and notes fields?

2017-07-09 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
The importer includes three options: A, R and R+U. These mean: A = add the transaction as new R+U = reconcile the transaction with a matching transaction and update the existing GC transaction with the incoming data (description field etc.) R = Reconcile the incoming transaction with t

Re: When importing transactions, what happens to non-identical data in the description and notes fields?

2017-07-09 Thread David Carlson
Paul In my experience it depends on which method you use. I usually use the OFX import and if I choose update the new text replaces the existing so I often either choose match which keeps the existing text or add to keep.the existing transaction intact so I can manually merge text later. David C

Re: Ver. 2.4.11 recovery

2017-07-09 Thread james
On 07/09/17 08:15, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > We'll take this in steps > > > On 7/9/2017 12:06 AM, james wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Good news, I lost a small 5 year history (but should have backups from >> last year. I've been really sick for 6 months, so my gnu-skills >> fuzzy, weak or just blank

Understanding the Scheduled Transactions Dialogue Posting Message

2017-07-09 Thread aegross
Immediately after I start GnuCash, this dialogue occurs after scheduled transactions are posted: https://www.screencast.com/t/OFlJ1dI90. I am running GC v2.6.16 on OS X 10.12.5. I never quite understood the first part of this message "There are no Scheduled Transactions to be entered at this time,

Re: Ver. 2.4.11 recovery

2017-07-09 Thread Colin Law
.. On 9 July 2017 at 18:16, james wrote: > > GOOD NEWS, stroke of luck. The old lappy must have a bad mobo battery. > The date was set for 2006. So there were a few copyies made under the > 2006 date. I was able to load one of those up and it had all the data > complete history. > > I then reset

Re: Understanding the Scheduled Transactions Dialogue Posting Message

2017-07-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I always thought it odd myself. However, when I switched to being notified in advance of the creation date, this disappeared if there were transactions soon to be created (within the window specified). Regards, Adrien > On Jul 9, 2017, at 1:44 PM, aegross wrote: > > Immediately after I star

Re: Understanding the Scheduled Transactions Dialogue Posting Message

2017-07-09 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 9, 2017, at 11:44 AM, aegross wrote: > > Immediately after I start GnuCash, this dialogue occurs after scheduled > transactions are posted: https://www.screencast.com/t/OFlJ1dI90. I am > running GC v2.6.16 on OS X 10.12.5. > > I never quite understood the first part of this message "Th

Re: Login help

2017-07-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 07/09/2017 09:50 AM, pfwoolver...@juno.com wrote: > Dave, Thanks for the info. I viewed that page several times in recent weeks > and never noticed the login point. Jean-David, Sorry for not being clear > about what I wanted. -- Original Message -- You are still not clear a

Re: When importing transactions, what happens to non-identical data in the description and notes fields?

2017-07-09 Thread pfwoolver...@juno.com
David and David, Thanks for the info. I would like an import option to import the new data and retain the existing data, perhaps show all of the data in the split view. Paul -- Original Message -- From: David Carlson To: pfwoolver...@juno.com Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject

Matching Gifts ?

2017-07-09 Thread aegross
Part of the benefits of my employer is that I have $X per year in matching gifts for charities I support. If I wanted to track the remaining amount of money I have to allocate, what would the GAAP be for recording such? Currently I do this work in a spreadsheet but it would be handy to have this

Mortgage/Loan Scheduled Transaction Way Off

2017-07-09 Thread ITWarrior
Hello, I have a problem with setting up a mortgage. By the time I've added the details and reach the 'Loan Review' page, the results are way off. Here are my values: Amount: 172,000 Interest Rate: 4.590% Type: Fixed Rate Start date: 01/01/17 Length: 30 years The PMT for this is calculated by gnu

Fil recovery

2017-07-09 Thread esris
Today I had the "tip of the day"; how to view and compare a tab. Method given: Windows >> new window with page So I tried a tab; window opened in a new window grate! When I closed the one of the windows I (must have) closed the main account file window. It closed and the window that appeared was t

Re: Fil recovery

2017-07-09 Thread Maf. King
Hi, View -> New Accounts Page HTH, Maf. On Monday, 10 July 2017 06:23:56 BST esris wrote: > Today I had the "tip of the day"; how to view and compare a tab. > Method given: Windows >> new window with page > > So I tried a tab; window opened in a new window grate! > When I closed the one of th