Re: [GNC] The Meaning of Split (previously Example of multi-split feature of CSV importer?)

2019-03-22 Thread Bucky Carr
Derek, I think you have defined the reason that the term 'split' should remain in use as it presently is in GNUcash. On 3/22/2019 2:00 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: You are confusing the VERB split -- the act of splitting two things into pieces -- and the NOUN split, which are the results of

Re: [GNC] Unable to add prices to some securities

2019-03-19 Thread Bucky Carr
Forgot to mention. For the Online Price update, I switched from Alphavantage to Yahoo_JSON and it seems to be working fine. On 3/19/2019 8:47 AM, Alan Taylor wrote: And of course the Online Price update does not work, I have updated Perl etc. as per the WIKI.

Re: [GNC] Unable to add prices to some securities

2019-03-19 Thread Bucky Carr
This might not be what you are seeing, but I found that I need to press the "Apply" button after entering each security's info and when done, then press "OK" button. If I skipped the "Apply" step, the info was not saved / updated. HTH... On 3/19/2019 8:47 AM, Alan Taylor wrote: Hello, I

Re: [GNC] Using a mysql database?

2019-03-13 Thread Bucky Carr
Thank you. Didn't know you could make a MySQL db, logon-only. On 3/13/2019 6:53 AM, Joseph Vernice wrote: There are no logon credentials for an XML database, making it easy for someone to access your data.  I use a mysql database that requires credentials to log on.  Also, I change the port

Re: [GNC] Using a mysql database?

2019-03-12 Thread Bucky Carr
On 3/12/2019 6:14 PM, Joseph Vernice wrote: Been using MySQL DB for gnu cash for many years, mainly because of security. Never had a problem. Very reliable and fast on my lan server. Not sure how fast over internet. Hi. Can you explain a bit how the MySQL db is more secure than the

Re: [GNC] Setting up chart of accounts

2019-03-07 Thread Bucky Carr
wrote: One more question, just to be clear, did you set up opening balances in the child accounts, or transfer from the proper parent account? On 3/7/2019 1:03 PM, Bucky Carr wrote: The way I did it was to set up a CoA with 5 parent accounts: Asset, Equity, Liability, Income and Expenses. I

Re: [GNC] Setting up chart of accounts

2019-03-07 Thread Bucky Carr
The way I did it was to set up a CoA with 5 parent accounts: Asset, Equity, Liability, Income and Expenses. I set those as top level accounts so no transactions can be entered directly into them. Then I set up all my child accounts under the proper parent accounts. Then I set up the opening

Re: [GNC] Citi CC Download options

2019-02-14 Thread Bucky Carr
get something different.  I know it was there before and I searched all over the page for it. On 2/14/19 11:32 AM, Bucky Carr wrote: I'm looking at my Citi page now and it offers QFX, OFX, TXT, CSV and QBO format options. It is a new download selection window than I saw last month (which offered

Re: [GNC] Citi CC Download options

2019-02-14 Thread Bucky Carr
I'm looking at my Citi page now and it offers QFX, OFX, TXT, CSV and QBO format options. It is a new download selection window than I saw last month (which offered the same choices). On 2/14/2019 12:09 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Anybody else discover that Citi Cards has stopped offering

Re: [GNC] Struggling with Quicken import

2019-02-12 Thread Bucky Carr
Quicken2016 has a .PRN export option that looks like this: "Date","Num","Payee","Category","Memo","Amount","C","Balance" "6/24/1992",,"VG - 500 Index","[Retire - VG - Rollover IRA]",,-2.50,"R",-2.50, "9/24/1992",,"VG - 500 Index","[Retire - VG - Rollover IRA]",,-2.50,"R",-5.00, Is that

Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Bucky Carr
Then don't try to be so nice.  From your OP: "When I click in the scroller and move my mouse, whenever the mouse leaves the scroll bar area the display snaps back to where it was before the scroll operation.  I initially tried to carefully keep the mouse within the scroll bar area, and that

Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Bucky Carr
I just tried it with MS Excel (Win10) and it behaves exactly as you describe with your GNUcash-in-Linux experience. So it is not uncommon. But it is annoying. On 2/5/2019 10:38 AM, Steve Cohen wrote: On 2/5/19 11:33 AM, Bucky Carr wrote: Well, I am not using the Windows version

Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Bucky Carr
a Windows (and other platform) program. On 2/5/2019 10:27 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 17:22, Bucky Carr <mailto:bc...@purgatoire.org>> wrote: I've noticed that exact behavior in many other Windows programs as well. Definitely annoying. We are not talking about Wi

Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Bucky Carr
I've noticed that exact behavior in many other Windows programs as well. Definitely annoying. On 2/5/2019 9:53 AM, Steve Cohen wrote: For two years something seemed not quite right about the use of scroll bars in Gnucash register windows, but I always just "lived with it" in a state of

Re: [GNC] GNUCash becoming unusable ..v3.4

2019-02-01 Thread Bucky Carr
I agree. Quit using Quicken 2 years ago and will never go back. Diane, what are you trying to do? I find my usage of GNUcash to be very basic and have not had any problems with it. On 2/1/2019 1:21 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Your mileage is different than mine.  I'm not seeing that many

Re: [GNC] Liabilities and Net Worth in Android app

2019-02-01 Thread Bucky Carr
I got the same answer that you did. If you can confirm the repeatability of this discrepancy, perhaps a bug report should be made. On 2/1/2019 2:27 AM, Chris wrote: 2.2 The second point I want to make is the reports' balance sheet assets calculation. I run the following scenario (I would

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] 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

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

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