Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Laurel, I'm sorry you're having these troubles. Many windows users (myself included) are successfully using gnucash on windows. A search online showed several very old email threads with this error; however, they were from users of a repackaged version of Gnucash from a group called portableapp

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread nvsoar
On 11/25/20 19:19, David Cousens wrote: Laurel, Uninstalling and reinstalling the Windows 10 system should be a last resort. *Before you do that, at least make a copy of all the data files in your user directory either on a USB stick or a copy to another computer*. *Don't let a technician reins

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread David Cousens
Laurel, Uninstalling and reinstalling the Windows 10 system should be a last resort. *Before you do that, at least make a copy of all the data files in your user directory either on a USB stick or a copy to another computer*. *Don't let a technician reinstall it without doing this first*. Your u

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread laurel hargis
I’ll try again, but I’m pretty sure I always do let Windows create a new shortcut. On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:38 PM David Carlson wrote: > Laurel, > > It has been my experience on Windows that old shortcuts never work after > updates. I always need to let the update create a new shortcut. That

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Laurel, It has been my experience on Windows that old shortcuts never work after updates. I always need to let the update create a new shortcut. That would be doubly true after updating to GnuCash 4.2 as it changes many things 'under the hood' On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:27 PM laurel hargis wrot

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread laurel hargis
Adrien- gnu doesn’t launch when I click on it. I only get the error message. I do believe when it originally gave me trouble I was able to see an account “tree” with balances but not able to work in the application. After that I updated to 4.2 and now nothing happens. Should I try installing the

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread laurel hargis
Perhaps the Windows 10 update didn’t cause the problem. Maybe coincidence. But, all I did was try to open my OLD version of gnu on desktop to record some entries. I got the message I referred to that stays on my screen whenever for either version. I only installed 4.2 after the problem occurred as

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread laurel hargis
Thanks for the tip! I’ll try that. Laurel On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 5:37 PM A Harvey wrote: > Have you tried re-installing an older version to ascertain whether it is > just a 4.2 problem? In the past, I've occasionally encountered problems > with some versions of Gnucash that would not run, re

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Jeff, I am sure the CSV import settings are unique to your GnuCash data file and your PayPal account. You only have to do the setup once per account, not every time like before. On Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 4:35 PM Jeff Albrecht wrote: > On 11/25/2020 3:15 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > Jeff, Peter,

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread A Harvey
Have you tried re-installing an older version to ascertain whether it is just a 4.2 problem? In the past, I've occasionally encountered problems with some versions of Gnucash that would not run, regardless of what I tried, on one of three systems using identical versions of Windows but installed o

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC (Windows)

2020-11-25 Thread Jeff Albrecht
On 11/25/2020 3:27 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Gnucash 4.2 on Windows shipped aqbanking-6.2.2, gwenhywfar-5.4.0 The recent nighlies [https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/?C=M;O=D] are build with aqbanking-6.2.5 and gwenhywfar-5.4.1 I do not remember major changes related to the paypa

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Jeff Albrecht
On 11/25/2020 3:15 PM, David Carlson wrote: Jeff, Peter, et alia, I have tried CSV in release 3.8 and found it to be vastly improved now that it is possible to save the settings for each account.  I suggest giving it another try. Thanks. Perhaps I'll give CSV import a try again. I wonder if

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC (Windows)

2020-11-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Jeff Am 25.11.20 um 22:58 schrieb Jeff Albrecht: > For me... > > CSV is death by a thousand cuts. > Aqbanking worked consistently once I got it configured. (Only about 175 > cuts) Unfortunately the development of Aqbanking got out of sync with > GNUCash a while back. I think it's been correcte

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Jeff, Peter, et alia, I have tried CSV in release 3.8 and found it to be vastly improved now that it is possible to save the settings for each account. I suggest giving it another try. On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM Jeff Albrecht wrote: > For me... > > CSV is death by a thousand cuts. > Aqban

Re: [GNC] AqBanking Wizard won't start

2020-11-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 25.11.20 um 19:56 schrieb Peter Dutton: > Not sure how to use flatpak. The command to start the flatpak version of GnuCash is: flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash from https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Regular_releases_from_flathub.org ___ gnucas

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Jeff Albrecht
For me... CSV is death by a thousand cuts. Aqbanking worked consistently once I got it configured. (Only about 175 cuts) Unfortunately the development of Aqbanking got out of sync with GNUCash a while back. I think it's been corrected. As I used Windows 10 I'm anxious for the next release to s

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Peter Dutton
Fixed, sort of. Now have Aqbanking at least starting in GC. However, since it's not too easy to set up and probably have to spend the rest of my life figuring out all of the intricacies to use itI quit. Thank you, all, for the help. Peter

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread David Cousens
Adrien, Laurel I have just downloaded GnuCash 4.2 and installed it on my wife's Windows 10 box and it appears to be working OK. I checked "C:/Program Files(X86)/gnucash/bin" and there is no "libgncmod-app-utils.dll" in that location. I can open registers and create new transactions without any pr

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Laurel, I sympathise with W10 issues, my wife had to get a new laptop when her W10 laptop went south. If you do need to reinstall W10, you would have to first be sure that you have a copy of your data file somewhere not on your local hard drive. Same, of course, for all your other personal data

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Look under Tools > Online Banking Setup > Initial Online Banking Setup for our U.S. version. It may not work exactly the same way that the European version works when connecting to the U.S. Paypal server. On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:28 PM Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 25.11.20 um 19:38 schrieb Peter Dutton: > I'm running Ubuntu18.04 Mate Is aqbanking >= 5.7.8.0stable installed? > Peter... > > *From:* Frank H. Ellenberger [mailto:frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com] > *Subject:* [

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Your data files aren't a loss. They are separate from the app. (Not sure why you think you'd lose 10 months of data entry.) This sounds like one for the developers. Maybe they'll see this thread and take a look. What will help more is filing a bug report on bugs.gnucash.org. (you'll need to

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Peter Dutton
Yes, I read them but they were of no assistance- too basic. Peter __ From: Frank H. Ellenberger [[1]mailto:frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com] Subject: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC Date: Wednesday, November

[GNC] AqBanking Wizard won't start

2020-11-25 Thread Peter Dutton
I'm trying to get the Aqbanking wizard to run. While in GC v 3.11 I clicking on Start AqBanking Wizard (button) does nothing. I installed Flatpak which had no effect so far. Not sure how to use flatpak. I'm running- Ubuntu 18.04 Mate Thanks, Peter ___

Re: [GNC] entry point error after recent automatic windows 10 update

2020-11-25 Thread laurel hargis
It’s me again. Microsoft spent a couple hours with me today and tried to repair windows, upgraded to newer version, did scans, uninstalled and installed Microsoft ctt. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled gnu more times than I can track. The last step is to reinstall operating system which I won’t do.

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Peter Dutton
I'm running Ubuntu18.04 Mate Peter... __ From: Frank H. Ellenberger [[1]mailto:frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com] Subject: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 12:44 PM To: Pe

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
You didn't tell us your OS/distribution. If you are on Linux https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak would be one possibility to get a recent Gnucash and Aqbanking. Am 25.11.20 um 18:14 schrieb Peter Dutton: > The online banking tool wizard in my version of GC v 3.11 doesn't do anything > when I cl

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Peter Dutton
The online banking tool wizard in my version of GC v 3.11 doesn't do anything when I click the "start Aqbanking wizard". No idea how to translate the German into English. Sorry, Peter __ From: Frank H. Ellenberg

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Peter, you can also use our onlinebanking tool aAqBanking https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/AqBanking to direct download your paypal account into gnucash. The full instructions need to become translated to English: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/De/Paypal_einrichten and https://wiki.gnucash.org/wik

Re: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Peter, If you are using release 3.something or 4.something The CSV importer works pretty well once you get it set up correctly and save the configuration for repeated use. If it is making 'a mess' you need to make some adjustment. All of the import methods allow a lot of flexibility in the 'match

[GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

2020-11-25 Thread Peter Dutton
How can I easily import PayPal transactions into GC? I've tried importing a CSV but it just makes everything a mess. A qif import works a little better but not much. Any ideas for a guy who isn't clever? Thank you, Peter (my nametoday)