[GNC] Help me out with the online currencies price retrieval

2019-04-13 Thread Petrus Arief
Dear Gnucash User & Development Team, My name is Petrus. I have a problem with my online price retrieval. I installed the newest version of strawberry perl & gnucash and installed the Online Price Retrieval for Gnucash, but I'm facing this error (attached). [image: image.png]

Re: [GNC] Some chinese words can not be displayed

2019-04-13 Thread Richard Zhang
Hi John, I put the settings.ini into the C:\Users\erzhang\AppData\Local\gtk-3.0 with following settting: [Settings] gtk-font-name=Microsoft YaHei 14 It back to normal. Thanks! BR/Richard -Original Message- From: Richard Zhang Sent: 2019年3月27日 17:03 To: 'John Ralls' Cc: gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread D via gnucash-user
This. On April 14, 2019, at 10:44 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I understand you don’t care for the official documentation, but how much frustration have you endured by not reading it and just trying to plow through? How many times have you asked for help or for understanding that would have

Re: [GNC] move files into sub folder

2019-04-13 Thread D via gnucash-user
Alternatively, after creating the subfolder, open Gnucash (which will open your last file automatically), select File->Save As, and save your file to the new subfolder. Exit Gnucash and verify that your file its in its new location, and then clear out the old folder. David On April 14, 2019, a

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I understand you don’t care for the official documentation, but how much frustration have you endured by not reading it and just trying to plow through? How many times have you asked for help or for understanding that would have been avoided by reading the manual? Help Manual (https://www.gnuca

Re: [GNC] move files into sub folder

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The GnuCash datafile ends in .gnucash. Simply create your desired folder and move the file there. Then (if on Windows or Linux) double-click the data file to open it and GnuCash will remember its new location. Otherwise (or on a Mac) Open GnuCash first, (it will fail to find the last used file

[GNC] move files into sub folder

2019-04-13 Thread Karen Remick
When I installed GnuCash I told it to put files in the folder for my business. I made the incorrect assumption that they'd be put into a file. Instead they are mixed in with the other files for my business. I'd like to put all the GnuCash files in one folder (let's call it GnuCashFiles) and hav

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 4/13/19 8:53 PM, David Carlson wrote: ToddAndMargo, On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 9:22 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> wrote: On 4/13/19 3:53 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > Oh Geez, > > I try to reverse the numbers and get al

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread David Carlson
ToddAndMargo, On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 9:22 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 4/13/19 3:53 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > Oh Geez, > > > > I try to reverse the numbers and get all kinds of junk to Imbalance USD. > > Is there a way to elegantly

Re: [GNC] Some chinese words can not be displayed

2019-04-13 Thread John Ralls
Thanks for following up. I've made an entry on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3 about it. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 13, 2019, at 3:51 PM, Richard Zhang wrote: > > Hi John, > I put the settings.ini into the C:\Users\erzhang\AppData\Local\gtk-3.0 with > following settting: > > [Settings]

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 4/13/19 3:53 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Oh Geez, I try to reverse the numbers and get all kinds of junk to Imbalance USD. Is there a way to elegantly do this? I exported it to a CSV. I found founbd columns: Amount With Sym Amount Num. It it really easy to reverse

Re: [GNC] Unable to import QIF or QFX.

2019-04-13 Thread Evan Platt
Wow I feel like an idiot. Attention to detail LOL. Quicken is exporting a QXF file. Gnucash is importing QFX. So my guess is to export from quicken to Gnucash I have to do account by account with QIF? Or is there some other way? So Importing one of my QIF files (my main QIF file) - file looks good

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 4/13/19 5:31 PM, Christian Kluge wrote: Am 14.04.2019 um 02:14 schrieb David Cousens: Whether to debit or credit an account in a transaction in an accounting program may also not be what you expect from the everday experience with bank statements etc. I just wanted to add the reason for t

Re: [GNC] Unable to import QIF or QFX.

2019-04-13 Thread David Cousens
Evan OFX/QFX files can be edited or examined with a text editor. Usual caution about line endings and text editors between Linux and Windows environments apply First check to see if the exported file from Quicken had any content. If nothing is coming up after selecting the file and pressing the

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 14.04.2019 um 02:14 schrieb David Cousens: > Whether to debit or credit an account in a transaction in an accounting > program may also not be what you expect from the everday experience with > bank statements etc. > I just wanted to add the reason for this. A bank statement is an extract f

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread David Cousens
Todd, When you edit a register and change a debit entry to a credit entry for example in the first line, the original transaction will have had an equal credit entry corresponding to the original debit entry. After you edit the first line younow have two credit entries for the transaction and no c

[GNC] Unable to import QIF or QFX.

2019-04-13 Thread Evan Platt
GNUCASH / Windows 3.5+ 2019-3-30. / Windows 10 64. Exported a QFX file from Quicken 2019 R18.16 (latest build). Import QFX: I get a generic transaction import screen. It's blank. Import QIF: One or two accounts worked. One account as an example: I get to Start Import. It says importing, It says

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 4/13/19 2:25 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: On Apr 13, 2019, at 3:14 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: Hi All, especially Adrian, Here is what I have so far. I have two accounts: "Little Visa", which is a Credit card account "Little Visa -- Expense", which is an expense ac

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Derek Atkins wrote: No need to do that. Just tab off the second row (TAB off, don't hit Enter/Return), and Gnucash will create a new row for you. Enter that row. Tab off the end. Poof -- another row. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Only hit Enter/Return when you are DONE with the wh

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread David Carlson
Two other ways that could work include a) tab after entering the description might trigger auto complete into a full clone of the last transaction or b) use auto split ledger view or transaction journal view . Either of those methods add extra rows for additional split accounts. David Carlson

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
It doesn’t make any sense to me either. But curl works, perl doesn’t. What does that perl script actually do when it tries to pull that URL? Regards, Adrien > On Apr 13, 2019, at 9:17 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > The URL is given several times in the thread, it's http, port 80. That aside, > get

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Rich, On Sat, April 13, 2019 3:10 pm, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Christian Kluge wrote: > >> Just change the values in the debit and credit columns. >> As long as the sums of debit and credit don’t match you can add further >> entries. > > Christian, > > That works as long as there

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 13.04.2019 um 21:10 schrieb Rich Shepard: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Christian Kluge wrote: > >> Just change the values in the debit and credit columns. >> As long as the sums of debit and credit don’t match you can add further >> entries. > > That works as long as there are available rows. Two ar

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Christian Kluge wrote: Just change the values in the debit and credit columns. As long as the sums of debit and credit don’t match you can add further entries. Christian, That works as long as there are available rows. Two are the default so when I want to add two more ro

Re: [GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Christian Kluge
Am 13.04.2019 um 20:37 schrieb Rich Shepard: > Is there a way to open the split with more than two data entry rows? If not > I'll just continue doing what I have been, but would like to avoid > closing/re-opening the transaction if there is a way to do so. Just change the values in the debit and

[GNC] Split transaction: more than two off-setting accounts

2019-04-13 Thread Rich Shepard
When I enter a mortgage payment I credit the checking account and have three off-setting debit accounts: principal, interest, and escrow. The split transaction button opens only two rows so I enter the checking account credit and the principal amount debit, then close the transaction and re-open

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

2019-04-13 Thread AC
LWP apparently will also self report a 500 status if the connection fails for any reason. The first suggestion would be to add lots of debugging to the perl script to dump its internal state at various points and also snoop on the connection. I would also check to see if the malfunctioning router

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

2019-04-13 Thread David Carlson
There must be something else going on that hasn't been found yet. David Carlson On Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 9:18 AM John Ralls wrote: > The URL is given several times in the thread, it's http, port 80. That > aside, get real: A firewall that blocks a port when perl's LWP is the agent > but not when c

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

2019-04-13 Thread John Ralls
The URL is given several times in the thread, it's http, port 80. That aside, get real: A firewall that blocks a port when perl's LWP is the agent but not when curl or a web browser is? Besides, the request isn't blocked, it's munged so that Yahoo! returns a 500--server error response. So we ha

Re: [GNC] Upgrade 2.6.18 to 3.5

2019-04-13 Thread Tony Vanson
Thanks Ian. Spot on! Cheers On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 5:12 PM Ian K via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Tony, > > I recently ugraded from 2.6.21 to 3.5 on Windows 10 and had to locate the > saved reports. I'll tell you what I did. > On my system this was a file called "saved-repor

Re: [GNC] Upgrade 2.6.18 to 3.5

2019-04-13 Thread Ian K via gnucash-user
Tony, I recently ugraded from 2.6.21 to 3.5 on Windows 10 and had to locate the saved reports. I'll tell you what I did. On my system this was a file called "saved-reports-2.4", which was located at: C:\users\USERNAME\.gnucash where USERNAME is the current user. I copied this file to: C:\Users\

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
More likely a blocked port though since the OP said curl works to retrieve the same URL, but not perl. A look at the perl script will probably expose the issue. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 13, 2019, at 4:29 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > > A different router could also mean a different ISP, a dif

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

2019-04-13 Thread David Carlson
A different router could also mean a different ISP, a different DNS, and that is just the starting point... David Carlson On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:58 PM Ronal B Morse wrote: > Maybe a firewall configuration issue? Bruno's router might be blocking a > required port where his neighbor's is not.

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Apr 13, 2019, at 3:14 AM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Hi All, especially Adrian, > > Here is what I have so far. > > I have two accounts: >"Little Visa", which is a Credit card account >"Little Visa -- Expense", which is an expense account > > Credit card charges

Re: [GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread Maf. King
Hi, Answers inline below... On Saturday, 13 April 2019 09:14:39 BST ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi All, especially Adrian, > > Here is what I have so far. > > I have two accounts: > "Little Visa", which is a Credit card account > "Little Visa -- Expense", which is an expens

[GNC] Don't understand why I have what I have

2019-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
Hi All, especially Adrian, Here is what I have so far. I have two accounts: "Little Visa", which is a Credit card account "Little Visa -- Expense", which is an expense account Credit card charges I have entered into "LittleVisa" (transfer column) as a "debit". I get a corresponding "cr

Re: [GNC] credit card opening balance

2019-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 4/13/19 12:30 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Any asset account would do. You can use the cash or checking/bank account already created by the startup wizard, or add a new one. It doesn’t have to be anything special because you don’t care about it. It’s just to satisfy double-entry. Regards,

Re: [GNC] credit card opening balance

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Any asset account would do. You can use the cash or checking/bank account already created by the startup wizard, or add a new one. It doesn’t have to be anything special because you don’t care about it. It’s just to satisfy double-entry. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 13, 2019, at 1:47 AM, ToddAndMa

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2019-04-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
2.6.15 can’t reliably read the data file from 3.x. (if at all, I haven’t tested it) The lowest you can go is 2.6.19. You could use the Flatpak version, the .deb that was posted on this list, or build from source. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 13, 2019, at 1:31 AM, Gour wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2