Re: [GNC] 3.4 upgraded, crashes when paying invoice

2019-01-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Environment: Slackware-14.2, Gnucash-3.4. > > Upgraded over the weekend by removing -3.3, building and installing -3.4. > The new version appeared to be working. > > This morning I entered and posted a vendor invoice and tried to pay it

Re: [GNC] moving info securities from windows to linux

2019-01-28 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 9:31 PM uhopfer@gmail Where does gnucash keep info about securities and can this info be moved > to linux? I have been using gnucash for several years on windows and > download security prices. This info about securities in not in the > *.gnucash data file. Gnucash is install

[GNC] moving info securities from windows to linux

2019-01-28 Thread uhopfer@gmail
Where does gnucash keep info about securities and can this info be moved to linux? I have been using gnucash for several years on windows and download security prices. This info about securities in not in the *.gnucash data file. Gnucash is installed on linux (64-bit), but without the securitie

Re: [GNC] Mac OS application size

2019-01-28 Thread D via gnucash-user
Nike, If you navigate into the app bundle, you can remove the various translations of the documentation. There are versions in English (placed in a folder named C), German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Italian, I believe. The Japanese version especially takes a lot of space. David On January 29,

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you have the install discs for that machine, consider converting to a VM if you want to ditch Windows as the main OS sooner rather than later. (you could dual boot, but since the end goal is ditch Windows entirely, and you likely need AceMoney you won’t want to reboot to switch back and forth

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Bucky Carr
You are most welcome. What I ended up doing is saving all the Quicken individual account files in every export format I could figure out (created dozens and dozens of files in .qif, .txt, .csv, .xlsx formats), just in case like you, I decided I needed the data later for some reason. So far,

Re: [GNC] MacOS Crash - possibly display power related?

2019-01-28 Thread prl
Thanks, John. That does sound similar. It's certainly correct in my case that the secondary monitor is to the left of the main monitor. However, there's one small difference between what I see and what's in the bug report - in the bug report is says that the popup isn't shown, while for me the

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Bucky Carr
You'll want to approach this project with some time and no deadline, else you might get frustrated. Get GNUcash installed and running on the target machine. In AceMoney, export the largest account you have into a .qif format file and get that file to where GNUcash can find it. Then in GNUcas

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread David Cousens
Found a link which indicates AceMoney can export in QIF format. QIF is not a well standardized format but GnuCash can generally import it. You may also like to consider the following python program for translating Acemoney files to GnuCash files. No idea how current it is and what versions of Ace

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Bucky Carr
I found this on the AceMoney user forum, so perhaps there is hope: "Yes!  Select FILE at upper left - Select EXPORT - set the path to the folder & file name you wish to use - lastly, select SAVE AS TYPE - you will see a drop down menu for TXT, CSV, QIF, & XML.  Choose the format style you want

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread David Cousens
Jason AceMoney does not list any export formats in its documentation. GnuCash will not be able to read AceMoneys file format unless someone has written a translator and this is unlikely. GnuCash can import OFX/QFX, QIF, CSV files if Acemoney can export data in any of these formats. OFX/QFX is g

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 3:10 PM Bucky Carr wrote: > > What forms of accounts file export can you do in AceMoney? > > On 1/28/2019 1:54 PM, Jason Voss wrote: > > My wife stayed on Windows much longer than I did but I have recently > moved her to a MacBook Air.Now I'm trying to get her a basic chec

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Bucky Carr
What forms of accounts file export can you do in AceMoney? On 1/28/2019 1:54 PM, Jason Voss wrote: My wife stayed on Windows much longer than I did but I have recently moved her to a MacBook Air.Now I'm trying to get her a basic checkbook register app to replace AceMoney Lite and I'm looking

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Stephen M. Butler
On 1/28/19 12:54 PM, Jason Voss wrote: > My wife stayed on Windows much longer than I did but I have recently moved > her to a MacBook Air.Now I'm trying to get her a basic checkbook register app > to replace AceMoney Lite and I'm looking at Gnucash for this purpose. > We have several years of hi

[GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread Jason Voss
My wife stayed on Windows much longer than I did but I have recently moved her to a MacBook Air.Now I'm trying to get her a basic checkbook register app to replace AceMoney Lite and I'm looking at Gnucash for this purpose. We have several years of historical data in .amj files on a Network Attach

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Documentation

2019-01-28 Thread David Cousens
David I've had a good look at the Accounts chapter. Even though it seems a logical place in reality it won'tmake sense there as the information in the ch4 Transactions section is really needed to make sense of the reconciliation process as while you reconcile an account, it is the transactions.

[GNC] Mac OS application size

2019-01-28 Thread V. Vatsal via gnucash-user
Hi, I just downloaded GnuCash 3.4, and noticed (somehow I never paid much attention before) that the application bundle is 400MB in size. This seems excessively large to me — the only applications I have that are larger are Word, Excel, Pages, and Numbers. So I am wondering if there’s any way

[GNC] Debian Files for GnuCash 3.4-x

2019-01-28 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Here are the three debian files for 3.4 (as released):  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fV_fURy6c77e7gf6S41lTacM7dFyy7VD And here are the three for 3.4-45:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v-AWCWxbETqsXsmQ7jYX8wurL6HKASBF Download the three files to an empty folder (at least one empty of othe

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 28 Jan 2019, at 16:15, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:47 AM, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> A developer could chime in but my recollection from when this arose last >> year or so is, “no.” If it were critical to run a 32-bit version, you’ll >> need a VM running an

[GNC] 3.4 upgraded, crashes when paying invoice

2019-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
Environment: Slackware-14.2, Gnucash-3.4. Upgraded over the weekend by removing -3.3, building and installing -3.4. The new version appeared to be working. This morning I entered and posted a vendor invoice and tried to pay it from the business' checking account. After filling in the dialog box

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread D via gnucash-user
Well, in addition to the malformed subtotals with respect to user sign preferences, there's the problem that the method for producing a totals-only report has been substantially reworked. In 2.6, using "Show totals" and "Suppress transaction detail" worked to create a report that did just that

Re: [GNC] Stange Mac OS issues (update)

2019-01-28 Thread dthayer
Solved: Changing "prefer tabs when opening documents" to "manually" took care of all the crazy stuff. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Do you have "Prefer tabs when opening documents in System Preferences>Dock set to something besides "Manually"? Regards, John Ralls -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi David I run 2.6.21 and 3.4 side by side on my machine on the same data file > without trouble. The visual experiences can’t be optimized for both since > they use different UI engines but the same configuration files it seems. > > There are also numerous incompatibilities with the standard repo

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread John Ralls
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:47 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > A developer could chime in but my recollection from when this arose last year > or so is, “no.” If it were critical to run a 32-bit version, you’ll need a VM > running an older version of MacOS. (note that is against the Apple TOS

Re: [GNC] PDF export of reports

2019-01-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/26/2019 10:57 AM, Raimund Strehl wrote: If I am not mistaken the same problem occurs when printing the report from Gnucash using print to pdf or to a printer. I think this is an issue that should have high priority as the export and print functions are rendered unusable by this. Any coder

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Colin Law
There is also the issue that at one point he seemed to suggest this was the first reconcile, then he said he didn't do any reconciles till December. The only way we will understand what is going on is if he is clearer on exactly what he has done. Colin On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 14:45, David T. via

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 7:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > David, > > I understand perfectly what you are saying. My point was I read the post to > be a confusion in terms. I understood the OP to mean ‘opening balance’ to > mean the opening balance transaction in the account, *not* the ’

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > >> >> It’s not clear whether “data files” is meant to refer to *your* data files, >> or *the application’s.* Adrien is right that you can easily load multiple >> versions of the application simply by naming one “Gnucash 2.6.19.a

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, I understand perfectly what you are saying. My point was I read the post to be a confusion in terms. I understood the OP to mean ‘opening balance’ to mean the opening balance transaction in the account, *not* the ’starting balance’ of the reconciliation. In fact, Gnucash uses the term ’S

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Adrien, > On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I could be wrong, but I read “opening balance” to mean the balance when the > account was created in GnuCash, not the “starting balance” for the > reconciliation. Certainly, when you first create an account, you have to tel

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> > It’s not clear whether “data files” is meant to refer to *your* data files, > or *the application’s.* Adrien is right that you can easily load multiple > versions of the application simply by naming one “Gnucash 2.6.19.app” and the > other “Gnucash 3.4.app” That is what I have done; I’ve

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could be wrong, but I read “opening balance” to mean the balance when the account was created in GnuCash, not the “starting balance” for the reconciliation. Certainly, when you first create an account, you have to tell GnuCash how much is already in the account if it pre-existed. It could be

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
And I will add my comments as well... > On Jan 28, 2019, at 5:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Michael, > > I’ll cover these in-line: > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 4:56 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I have been contentedly using Gnucash since 2010, initially on Ubuntu but >> more recentl

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
There is a lot to unpack here.  You say you started at the beginning of 2018 and entered "the closing balance for 2017."  Was that balance taken from a statement? Or just from the bank website as of that date?  I can't see how any of the various numbers (the numbers on the screen grab or provi

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Michael, I’ll cover these in-line: > On Jan 28, 2019, at 4:56 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > I have been contentedly using Gnucash since 2010, initially on Ubuntu but > more recently on iMac, and although I have no problems with the version I’m > using it’s probably time I upgraded. > > I hav

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 10:23, Finbar Mahon wrote: > ... > > Aha, maybe there is another issue. When I do, as you suggested, View > > Filter By > Status > Reconciled I get nothing!! even when I just chose > 'reconcile' or 'select all' > On the Date tab (of View > Filter By) have you got Show All

Re: [GNC] Switching between 2 bank accounts

2019-01-28 Thread Colin Law
If you mean you have lost the Accounts tab that shows all the accounts then do View > New Accounts Page Colin On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 06:20, Joanne Paradise wrote: > > I just finished my 2018 year end reports for my personal bank account. I > needed to add a 2nd bank account. After creating the

[GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Michael Hendry
I have been contentedly using Gnucash since 2010, initially on Ubuntu but more recently on iMac, and although I have no problems with the version I’m using it’s probably time I upgraded. I have a few questions: 1. Will 2.6.16 still run on the Mac when the withdrawal of support for 32-bit softw

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Finbar Mahon
OK, As I said, I started on 1.1.2018 with 'nothing' I entered the closing balance for 2017 for the a/c and started entering transactions. Unfortunately, coming from Quicken, I didn't do any reconciliations until about December. But casually examining the entries from time to time they seemed

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Documentation

2019-01-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Clearly, I am muddled. You are right that the accounts chapter precedes transactions, and that sequence will hold for the future, although the numbering will change.  As for a blueprint for the Guide, I am using bug 687820, which puts out a specific arrangement and configuration of chapters.  I