Re: Could not obtain the lock

2017-12-28 Thread moirag
Hi, friends, Sorry for going AWOL - I couldn't put any time into this issue until the holidays. I have figured it out!! My anti-virus (a thing called Bitprotector that is provided by Best Buy, where I got the laptop) blocked guncash from doing something. I discovered this completely by accident,

RE: unreconcile multiple transactions

2017-12-28 Thread James White
Sigh. Of course. That was super-simple and took me about 5% as long to do. Also, there is virtually no room for error. Thanks Warlord -Original Message- From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warl...@mit.edu] Sent: December 15, 2017 10:55 AM To: James White Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject:

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 3:52 PM, farleykj wrote: > > John, > I get the results you get from "curl". A whole lot of code. So this narrows > my troubles down to the use of Perl for requests? I'm currently using > version 5.18. > So am I, and I ran in a relatively clean (i.e. not in a Gtk-OSX buil

Re: Company sponsored stock plan

2017-12-28 Thread David Carlson
It sounds like your company is setting up an account similar to what we usually call a 401-K in the US. Whether it actually is a 401-K or not, you can track the account in the same way, except for the tax related issues. You can set up GnuCash to have a brokerage account similar to the example in

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread farleykj
John, I get the results you get from "curl". A whole lot of code. So this narrows my troubles down to the use of Perl for requests? I'm currently using version 5.18. - Ken Farley -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread farleykj
I'm not using a proxy. I tried using identification strings for a few other browers, like Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc. and to no avail. - Ken Farley -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucas

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 2:45 PM, farleykj wrote: > > Well, that really does me in, I guess. Odd that I can use their on-site tools > to get values of things, but can't via Perl. > Try the curl line I posted earlier, then look into your browser settings, for example are you using a proxy? Rega

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread farleykj
Well, that really does me in, I guess. Odd that I can use their on-site tools to get values of things, but can't via Perl. - Ken Farley -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnuc

Re: Company sponsored stock plan

2017-12-28 Thread Ignacio Fernandez Ortega
If you are using the multicurrency example from the guide I am sure is not going to work I dealt with the same issue last week. Take a look at https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2017-December/073686.html On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Wolfgang Paul Rauchholz < wp.rauchh...@gmail.c

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 1:56 PM, farleykj wrote: > > Sorry, I thought I'd responded to the message about telling the agent what > browser it is identifying itself as. > I'm using Perl, and the code I'm using to see what's up is as follows: > > > use LWP::UserAgent ; > use LWP::Simple ; > > my

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread farleykj
Sorry, I thought I'd responded to the message about telling the agent what browser it is identifying itself as. I'm using Perl, and the code I'm using to see what's up is as follows: use LWP::UserAgent ; use LWP::Simple ; my $urlSite = "https://www.treasurydirect.gov/BC/SBCPrice"; ; my $idBrows

Company sponsored stock plan

2017-12-28 Thread Wolfgang Paul Rauchholz
Trying to set the following up, but can‘t get it right. I hope to find help here. That is the scheme: The base currency is in €. 1) monthly, a certain amount (in €) is taken off salary and invested in stocks (in USD) 2) the company adds X-% on top of the amount and stock (in USD) is bought 3) Rep

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 December 2017 at 18:26, farleykj wrote: > I did try this. The only effect from changing it is to get a different > number > at the end of the failure message, i.e. it goes from > You did try what? Since you have not quoted the message you are replying to we do not know which suggestion you

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 10:26 AM, farleykj wrote: > > I did try this. The only effect from changing it is to get a different number > at the end of the failure message, i.e. it goes from > > "Can't connect to www.treasurydirect.gov:80 (Connection refused)" > > to > > "Can't connect to www.trea

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread farleykj
I did try this. The only effect from changing it is to get a different number at the end of the failure message, i.e. it goes from "Can't connect to www.treasurydirect.gov:80 (Connection refused)" to "Can't connect to www.treasurydirect.gov:443 (Connection refused)" This is rather mysterious pr

Re: Report to help with budgeting

2017-12-28 Thread Gour
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:19:07 -0600 Jon Schewe wrote: > For those that like envelope budgeting, but want to leverage the > budgeting capabilities of GnuCash I've written a report that makes it > possible to see the status of each budget account. I've put in an That's something that makes me consi

Re: Has the Treasury Direct interface changed?

2017-12-28 Thread Colin Law
On 27 December 2017 at 21:55, farleykj wrote: > The URL is listed with https. But, for the record, I tried http and https > in > futile attempts to connect. Neither makes any difference. The error message > you refer to is the "contents" of the results I get from a query to the > website, and doe

Re: Dealing with a large QIF file

2017-12-28 Thread jeffrey black
On 12/24/2017 8:08 PM, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: > On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 00:46 +, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote: >>    Thanks. Yes one can import one at a time but this cheque ac from >>    Quicken is huge and has references to other card accounts as >> categories >>    within it. These accou