Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

2018-02-21 Thread David Carlson
I seem to recall that GnuCash uses a different printing system dialog than most other windows programs. Perhaps a developer knows where to look for this problem. David C On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:49 AM, David Carlson wrote: > When printing checks the same thing happens when clicking on the Pri

Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

2018-02-21 Thread David Carlson
When printing checks the same thing happens when clicking on the Print button in the check printing box. There would not be a work-around for that. David C On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Greg Feneis wrote: > As a work around, perhaps try the Export as PDF function, then print the > exported

Re: Finance-Quote 1.47 Unable to retrieve Currency quotes

2018-02-21 Thread Richard Morris via gnucash-user
But I wonder - does GNUCash use alphavantage for currencies? I see this: "There are 3 types of sources of which the first - currency - is hardcoded and responsible to fetch ISO currencies. The other two can be selected in the security editor." https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/apas0

Re: Language change mystery (John Ralls)

2018-02-21 Thread Roger Oliver
Original message You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the Start menu and then type the name to find it. Once it's visible in the menu bar, right-click on it and select "run as administrator" to get the privilege escalation to edit environment. Regards, John Ralls

Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

2018-02-21 Thread Greg Feneis
As a work around, perhaps try the Export as PDF function, then print the exported PDF from a PDF viewer? Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:19 PM, jeffrey black wrote: > Does anyone have any idea of why version 2.6.19 of GnuCash will no > longer recognize any physical print

Re: Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

2018-02-21 Thread David Carlson
I wonder if this is the result of a recent Windows update. I rarely print from GnuCash but after reading your message I tried to print from release 2.6.18 in Windows 7 and I get "An error occurred during this operation." I have 5 different printers set up on this computer and Libre Calc has no tr

Printing no longer works on Windows 10 Pro

2018-02-21 Thread jeffrey black
Does anyone have any idea of why version 2.6.19 of GnuCash will no longer recognize any physical printer hooked to my Windows 10 Pro computer?  All other windoze programs do, and until today I have been able to print any GnuCash report on this computer. Split lines and all.  I needed a quick an

Re: How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

2018-02-21 Thread Michael DeBusk
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > C) Having said all that, I wholeheartedly agree that pre-processing >files, when possible, can get you a really great outcome. But this >is easier with QIF and OFX-Download, not with OFX-DC. I don't recall >what the OP is using.

Re: Monthly Billings Report ? (How much business did we book/Invoice during month X)

2018-02-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I stand corrected and humbled. Perhaps I should be more careful to verify what I read, certainly before passing it along. Thanks for the lesson. Regards, Adrien > On Feb 21, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Fred Bone wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#History __

Re: Remove my name from your mailing list.

2018-02-21 Thread Dave H
Dick, read the footer (copy below) that's tacked onto every message - you get to unsubscribe yourself :-) Cheers Dave H. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnu

Re: Reports issues

2018-02-21 Thread Dave H
Forum/mailing list rules - keep the discussion on the list to allow other users to offer suggestions/learn from the ongoing discussion. Check out these recent threads from the mailing list archive as they may offer some clues... https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-February/07477

Remove my name from your mailing list.

2018-02-21 Thread Dick Courter
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Re: Monthly Billings Report ? (How much business did we book/Invoice during month X)

2018-02-21 Thread Fred Bone
On 21 February 2018 at 14:04, Adrien Monteleone said: [...] > SQLite is a flat-file db using SQL principles. It has some limitations and > doesn’t work well for all situations. iTunes is probably the most widely > used app to employ it. (I think it was even designed by Apple especially > for iTune

Upgrading to new laptop, new version?

2018-02-21 Thread Dianna Broughton
Hi everyone, I'm upgrading to a new laptop after four years. Would you recommend that I download the latest gnucash version, and then just transfer my gnucach accounts into it, or keep using what I had (version 2.6.10)? Thank you for your advice! Warmly, Dianna

Re: Upgrading to new laptop, new version?

2018-02-21 Thread James Fuller
Hi, I am a gnucash user not an authority so you are forewarned :-). I did much the same thing in not staying updated. I finally updated to the current version. The update went seamlessly. My advice would be to update now. If a problem did occur you could always roll back but it isn't likely

Re: Stock Spin-Out

2018-02-21 Thread Les
Thanks Tommy for your input. There was not any information on either the spun-out company or the company that did the spin-out. (both companies are Canadian stocks.) I have sent email to both companies to determine my basis. On 02/21/2018 11:59 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018

Re: Stock Spin-Out

2018-02-21 Thread nvsoar
On 02/21/18 10:41, Les wrote: Thanks Tommy for your input. There was not any information on either the spun-out company or the company that did the spin-out. (both companies are Canadian stocks.) I have sent email to both companies to determine my basis. On 02/21/2018 11:59 AM, Tommy Trusse

Re: Upgrading to new laptop, new version?

2018-02-21 Thread David Carlson
You did not mention which operating system that your new laptop will have. If you are happy with your current release you can download a fresh copy onto you new laptop from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.10/ Otherwise, you can get the current vers

Re: Language change mystery mysteriously solved

2018-02-21 Thread rmomxtx
To: Greg Feneis, John Ralls, David Carlson, Derek Atkins Thanks for your help. I went back and double checked the language settings and there are several, some I had overlooked. Region/formats was set to Spanish (españa) and Region/location was set to Mexico. I changed the formats to Engli

Re: Monthly Billings Report ? (How much business did we book/Invoice during month X)

2018-02-21 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you need MySQL, you have to install a MySQL server. (on any platform that doesn’t have it included) IIS is one way to do that on Windows. You can also install a WAMP stack. (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) There are one-click installs available online. I would highly recommend installing PhpMyad

Re: Language change mystery mysteriously solved, p.s.

2018-02-21 Thread rmomxtx
To: Greg Feneis, John Ralls, David Carlson, Derek Atkins p.s. I checked the preferences after I wrote that last email and discovered that I needed to chance the currency back to $US under Accounts/Default currency and Reports/Default currency. ___ gn

Re: Closing Book causes Imbalance????

2018-02-21 Thread Geert Janssens
Yes, this has been requested before and I agree this would make more sense. Related bug reports with different proposals for a solution: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105803 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164317 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402289 Geert Op

Re: Stock Spin-Out

2018-02-21 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:02 PM, nvsoar wrote: > > Comment: It seems to me that a zero cost for the spun off shares is > incorrect if a non-zero basis exists for the pre-spin off shares. A zero > cost for the new shares will result in a higher than necessary capital gain > when those shares are

Re: Language change mystery (John Ralls)

2018-02-21 Thread rmomxtx
Original message You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the Start menu and then type the name to find it. Once it's visible in the menu bar, right-click on it and select "run as administrator" to get the privilege escalation to edit environment. Regards, John Ralls

Re: Monthly Billings Report ? (How much business did we book/Invoice during month X)

2018-02-21 Thread Fran_3 via gnucash-user
Re: Converting to MySQL... When I develop in MySQL on Windows I install IIS localhost server and MySQL... but that is not practical on other office computers. 1 - I'm not familiar with sqLite but a quick Google makes me think it is a way to run MySQL on a local PC without running server software

Re: Trading Accounts for Securities

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Trading accounts do not show you UNREALIZED gains. They exist to help you balance out REALIZED gains once you have a sale transaction. -derek On Wed, February 21, 2018 12:00 pm, Keith Bellairs wrote: > I started looking at using trading accounts but I may be missing > something. > > The tra

Trading Accounts for Securities

2018-02-21 Thread Keith Bellairs
I started looking at using trading accounts but I may be missing something. The trading account created by gnucash for a stock shows as a balance the number of shares in the account. This is also the balance shown in the asset account for that stock. Transactions for all stocks post to the USD (i

Re: New File Won't Open

2018-02-21 Thread Les
Sorry, I am used to using Linux and forget about Mac.  Thanks for the reply. Les On 02/21/2018 09:23 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, On Wed, February 21, 2018 10:12 am, Les wrote: I right click on the new file to open. Like I said below -- that does not work on the Mac. GnuCash will always open

Date Change

2018-02-21 Thread Paul Konnersman
My earlier reply was addressed to the wrong person. I think that you will find what you're looking for here: *MenuBar> File> Accounts> "Day Threshold to Read-Only Transactions (red* * line)* *If you enter zero in"Day Threshold" field all transactions will be available in Read/Write,* *If you e

Re: Re: How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

2018-02-21 Thread alspachde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This would be a nice enhancement. I suspect that for the developers (not me) there are a lot of issues hidden in this. I suggest limiting it to keeping the account type the same or at least warn the user if not. Your example is for a simple transacti

Re: New File Won't Open

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Wed, February 21, 2018 10:12 am, Les wrote: > I right click on the new file to open. Like I said below -- that does not work on the Mac. GnuCash will always open the last-used file. You need to use GnuCash's File -> Open to open your new file. -derek > > On 02/21/2018 08:59 AM, Derek Atk

Re: New File Won't Open

2018-02-21 Thread Les
I right click on the new file to open. On 02/21/2018 08:59 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: HI, On Wed, February 21, 2018 9:44 am, Les wrote: I created a new GC file for my Mac.  When I try to open the new file, it reverts back the previous file. How to correct this problem? How are you trying to op

Re: New File Won't Open

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Atkins
HI, On Wed, February 21, 2018 9:44 am, Les wrote: > I created a new GC file for my Mac.  When I try to open the new file, it > reverts back the previous file. > > How to correct this problem? How are you trying to open the new file? On a Mac you cannot double-click a file -- GnuCash does not han

New File Won't Open

2018-02-21 Thread Les
I created a new GC file for my Mac.  When I try to open the new file, it reverts back the previous file. How to correct this problem? Thanks, Les ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to un

Re: Closing Book causes Imbalance????

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, replicon writes: [snip] > BTW is there a way to enable a "Always display a warning if there is > imbalance" message? There are zero scenarios where it's acceptable to me to > create a transaction that results in a "Imbalance-USD" account. Usually, I > check at the end of updating my fil

Re: How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Atkins
jeffrey black writes: [snip] > Derek could probably write a Python script in his sleep to do the > corrections, if he ever sleeps. Personally I don't think that he ever > does sleep (:-))!! His up-time is longer than the servers. So that is > not an option. A) I do sleep (although my Avatar is

RE: Language change mystery

2018-02-21 Thread rmomxtx
David, The Windows defender controlled folder access feature is confusing to me. Can’t figure out how to add a program to the approved list. For now, I just turned it off. I couldn’t find the program file for GnuCash to add it to the list. Not sure where it is in the Program Files (x86)/GnuC

Re: How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

2018-02-21 Thread Derek Atkins
Hans, On Wed, February 21, 2018 8:49 am, Hans Deragon wrote: > Thank you all for your quick responses. It is nice to discover that > GnuCash's mailing list is very alive. > > I am currently shopping for an Open Source personal financial-accounting > software. I do not mind the double entry, but

Re: How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

2018-02-21 Thread Hans Deragon
Thank you all for your quick responses. It is nice to discover that GnuCash's mailing list is very alive. I am currently shopping for an Open Source personal financial-accounting software. I do not mind the double entry, but it bugs me that I cannot reassign accounts at will, easily. Since I am

Re: Closing Book causes Imbalance????

2018-02-21 Thread replicon
ACK! I figured it out! I noticed it was choking on a building depreciation transaction. Looks like just one of my expense accounts, probably due to typo/click-o when setting it up, had "smallest fraction" set to "1" instead of "Use Commodity Value". As a result, the depreciation transaction for

Re: Reports issues

2018-02-21 Thread Dave H
There have been reports of late that when running reports on windows the first time it can take a quite some time and appear like it's hung. Give it more time i.e. some minutes and let it finish. Apparently subsequent report runs are pretty normal after the first time :-) cheers Dave H. On 21

Reports issues

2018-02-21 Thread Finbar Mahon
I am trying to generate some reports, to see how it works, as a very new user. I am trying to produce a simple profit and loss. Every time I go to report>profit and loss, it  seems to do some actions and then hangs. If I try to get help or do anything else it stops and says not responding. A