Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Christopher Lam
I think I'll get the draft multicolumn report into v3.6 due approximately end of June. No guarantees it's bugfree (especially involving multiple currencies/stocks) but at least it'll have increased exposure, and I'm sure many users will find them useful. Multi-date balance-sheets aim to report on

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Maf. King
Aah, sorry, misunderstood. too much spam (2 in a day!) (I wish) Maf. On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:39:36 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: > No, I meant in the spam message I received personally from an alleged list > user. It didn’t contain a link. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On May 8, 2019, at

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 8 May 2019 15:11:21 -0500 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > There were no links though, just the message. I'm guessing a reply by me > would generate another reply by the spammer/scammer that might escalate > things. Yeah. The first message might have been a "feeler" message. > >

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Maf. King
I saw a link. truck loan center dot com Maf. On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:11:21 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: > There were no links though, just the message. I’m guessing a reply by me > would generate another reply by the spammer/scammer that might escalate > things.

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
No, I meant in the spam message I received personally from an alleged list user. It didn’t contain a link. Regards, Adrien > On May 8, 2019, at 3:36 PM, Maf. King wrote: > > I saw a link. truck loan center dot com > > Maf. > > > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:11:21 BST Adrien Monteleone

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There were no links though, just the message. I’m guessing a reply by me would generate another reply by the spammer/scammer that might escalate things. Regards, Adrien > On May 8, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Wed, 8 May 2019 11:58:30 -0500 Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > >>

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 8 May 2019 11:58:30 -0500 Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Considering the ’name’ and the email address are both names but they are > different, I’d say that is a fair guess. The slight rambling tone and the > plug link was what first tipped me off. > > I just got a personal spam

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-08 Thread Cricket Onebit
I vote strongly that reconciliation status should never change without a warning that's hard to ignore. That's safest for the users, especially those of us with fat fingers, and easier to program. Finding which transaction to re-reconcile can be difficult unless I catch it right away. The only

Re: [GNC] List Spam (was: Need loan to upgrade my truck)

2019-05-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Considering the ’name’ and the email address are both names but they are different, I’d say that is a fair guess. The slight rambling tone and the plug link was what first tipped me off. I just got a personal spam e-mail yesterday from someone claiming they couldn’t access the list and wanted

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/8/19 3:28 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Todd, do you remember which tab was open when you accidentally clicked the close button ? Was it a report tab, a register tab or an accounts tab or even something else ? I was in on of my credit card accounts. But, I checked and the button is there is

Re: [GNC] Changing account tree on large database

2019-05-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
If you need a site up quickly as a local install, check out TurnKeyLinux. They have server appliances you can download and install in a VM or even just open in a VM skipping the installation part. They also have cloud images for the various major cloud providers if that is your preference. I

Re: [GNC] Need loan to upgrade my truck

2019-05-08 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: >> On May 8, 2019, at 5:43 AM, GeorgeMunday wrote: [snip] > > Dear Mr. Munday, > > Sorry, you've stumbled into the wrong list. We discuss a Free > accounting program called GnuCash here. We emphatically do not offer > financial advice. I am sitting here wondering if the

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Stephen C. Camidge
Sounds like you wrote the program - I am new to this and do not know the history. As a recently retired accountant, I am use GNU Cash as a replacement for Quickbooks. I like what I see, but would like the reporting capabilities of Quickbooks where possible. To me, monthly P and comparative P

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Stephen C. Camidge
I used Libre Office and it worked. Thank you very much for the workaround! Steve -- Stephen C. Camidge scami...@fastmail.fm (519) 363-3912 On Wed, May 8, 2019, at 8:55 AM, Maf. King wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:33:34 BST Stephen C. Camidge wrote: > > I tried that. I

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Maf. King
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:33:34 BST Stephen C. Camidge wrote: > I tried that. I added an autosum command totalling a column with a result of > $0 (wrong total). It is like it treats the cell as text. I tried opening > with excels' Data buttons for From HTML and From Text - still no success. > >

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 5/7/2019 11:22 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Comparative-period P is not yet implemented in GnuCash. (but as Chris Lamm noted, he has a testing version of the report that *might* fit your needs - if you can try it, please do so) One reason it has not been implemented is that when I began

Re: [GNC] Need loan to upgrade my truck

2019-05-08 Thread John Ralls
> On May 8, 2019, at 5:43 AM, GeorgeMunday wrote: > > My wife and I are finally deciding to upgrade our truck and buy something > bigger newer and more powerful. But I don't have that much cash to drop on a > truck. I have never had a truck loan before. I have talked to my bank and > got the

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 8 mei 2019 13:21:46 CEST schreef Maf. King: > Assume for a moment that the code path was somehow triggered. What would > the effect be on a book? what would OP actually see happen? Do you know / > can you deduce from the code? If it is not what ToddandMargo saw happen > then maybe

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Stephen C. Camidge
I tried that. I added an autosum command totalling a column with a result of $0 (wrong total). It is like it treats the cell as text. I tried opening with excels' Data buttons for From HTML and From Text - still no success. -- Stephen C. Camidge scami...@fastmail.fm (519)

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread Maf. King
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 11:28:40 BST Geert Janssens wrote: > Op woensdag 8 mei 2019 09:34:18 CEST schreef ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user: > > On 5/8/19 12:27 AM, Maf. King wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 08:14:05 BST Geert Janssens wrote: > > >> And actually it's very odd your copy of

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Maf. King
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:13:05 BST Stephen C. Camidge wrote: > Thank you to both of you. I have not figured out how to export to a > spreadsheet - I tried but only could export to html, added a sum of the > column, but the sum gave a total of $0. Hi Stephen 2 suggestions: 1. I believe that

Re: [GNC] Questions

2019-05-08 Thread Stephen C. Camidge
Thank you to both of you. I have not figured out how to export to a spreadsheet - I tried but only could export to html, added a sum of the column, but the sum gave a total of $0. -- Stephen C. Camidge scami...@fastmail.fm (519) 363-3912 On Tue, May 7, 2019, at 11:44 PM,

Re: [GNC] Strange keyboard behaviour with new version

2019-05-08 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 8 mei 2019 12:35:11 CEST schreef Adam Funk: > On 2019-02-13, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 12:49:46 CET schreef Adam Funk: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 a little over a month > >> ago. I think the gnucash version changed

[GNC] Need loan to upgrade my truck

2019-05-08 Thread GeorgeMunday
My wife and I are finally deciding to upgrade our truck and buy something bigger newer and more powerful. But I don't have that much cash to drop on a truck. I have never had a truck loan before. I have talked to my bank and got the reply "we have not had good experiences financing trucks" and so

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 8 mei 2019 09:34:18 CEST schreef ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user: > On 5/8/19 12:27 AM, Maf. King wrote: > > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 08:14:05 BST Geert Janssens wrote: > >> And actually it's very odd your copy of gnucash has this button to begin > >> with. So that begs the question:

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/8/19 12:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: It seems gnucash has a "Close" button that actually means "Close Books" with description: "Archive old data using accounting periods". mumble, mumble ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/8/19 12:27 AM, Maf. King wrote: On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 08:14:05 BST Geert Janssens wrote: And actually it's very odd your copy of gnucash has this button to begin with. So that begs the question: what version of gnucash are you using ? And from what source did you install it ?

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/8/19 12:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op woensdag 8 mei 2019 04:16:51 CEST schreef ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user: On 5/7/19 6:48 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: What do you mean archived? It was GnuCash's wording. And I don't know what it means. I tought it meant I was done editing for the

Re: [GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

2019-05-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
On 5/7/19 5:57 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user writes: I restore yesterday's file and still get today's booboo You restored the XXX.gnucash file, which is just your data. Why won't it let me restore from backup? Because you didn't restore the METADATA file, which

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread Maf. King
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 08:14:05 BST Geert Janssens wrote: > > And actually it's very odd your copy of gnucash has this button to begin > with. So that begs the question: what version of gnucash are you using ? > And from what source did you install it ? > > Regards, > > Geert > Wow, Geert.

Re: [GNC] undo close?

2019-05-08 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 8 mei 2019 04:16:51 CEST schreef ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user: > On 5/7/19 6:48 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > What do you mean archived? > > It was GnuCash's wording. And I don't know > what it means. I tought it meant I was done > editing for the day. > Hmm, had to look that up.