Re: [GNC] Problem With Price Editor

2018-06-22 Thread C M Reinehr
Les, Actually, you did receive an answer to your question, from John Ralls, only a few hours after your post: On Jun 21, 2018, at 2:51 AM, Les wrote: Yesterday, I created a new stock account, like all of the other stock accounts that I have. The strange thing is while the stock is listed

Re: [GNC] Backup and restore GnuCash Settings

2018-05-16 Thread C M Reinehr
As a long time Linux user and having used GnuCash for several years I can tell you that your GnuCash settings are in a hidden file in your home directory: ~/.gnucash You didn't say how you made your backup so, as David asked, did you back up your hidden files. If, for example, you used `tar` b

Re: [GNC] find AND REPLACE?

2018-04-12 Thread C M Reinehr
I'm still a novice at GnuCash but from previous discussions I do not believe that there is a global find and replace utility. But two ideas come to mind. If your file format is XML, isn't that a text file? If it is, you could use a text editor ('vi' if you're on Linux) to do a global search & r

Re: GnuCash 3.0 Released

2018-04-02 Thread C M Reinehr
John, Thanks for all your hard work. GnuCash is an invaluable piece of software. Cheers! CMR On 04/02/2018 03:17 PM, John Ralls wrote: GnuCash 3.0 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 3.0, the first release in our new 3.x stable series. New Features for Users:

Re: Segmentation Fault

2018-02-23 Thread C M Reinehr
John, Thanks very much. That's good news -- not that I have a corrupted data file, but that I have a way forward! CMR On 02/23/2018 12:04 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Feb 23, 2018, at 9:40 AM, C M Reinehr wrote: John, FYI, by clean I meant that I was running only Debian compiled pro

Re: Segmentation Fault

2018-02-23 Thread C M Reinehr
Noted. I'll take care of that. When I first started using Gnucash I think I did that just to make it easier to back up. CMR On 02/23/2018 11:46 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 23 februari 2018 18:40:27 CET schreef C M Reinehr: John, FYI, by clean I meant that I was running

Re: Segmentation Fault

2018-02-23 Thread C M Reinehr
lite3_error_fn()] DBI error: -6: An invalid or out-of-range index was passed to libdbi Thanks! CMR On 02/23/2018 11:00 AM, John Ralls wrote: On Feb 23, 2018, at 8:10 AM, C M Reinehr wrote: This morning I am unable to start Gnucash. Whenever I try I receive the following message:

Segmentation Fault

2018-02-23 Thread C M Reinehr
This morning I am unable to start Gnucash. Whenever I try I receive the following message: ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ;;;   or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable. ;;; compiling /home/cmr/.gnucash/gnctimeperiod-utilities.scm ;;; WARNING: compi

Re: mailing list

2018-02-07 Thread C M Reinehr
Likewise, there is a link to instructions as to how to manage your subscription in the signature of every list email: gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are

Re: Keeping track of sales and expenses for a specific craft show

2018-02-07 Thread C M Reinehr
Ravenkwill, I would suggest setting up your chart of accounts to record the revenues & expenses and then use the notes field of each entry to identify the specific craft show. Later, you can then use the notes field as a filter when running profit & loss reports, or specific views. CMR On

Re: Reconciliation Report

2017-12-02 Thread C M Reinehr
The accounting software that I use to manage my business includes the following "Bank Reconciliation Report": 1)    The bank balance as of the reconciliation date; 2)    A list of currently unreconciled deposits & charges; 3)    A subtotal of the above (2); 4)    Followed by an "Adjusted Stat

Re: Adding Fixed Assests

2017-11-07 Thread C M Reinehr
While your debit entry is to the fixed asset account your opposite, credit, entry should be to your cash account (reducing cash) or equity account(representing ownership). On 11/07/2017 03:45 PM, Kevin Barber wrote: Hello Can anyone tell me how to record fixed assets in GnuCash. When I put t

Re: Vendor Bill - Invoice Entries

2017-10-17 Thread C M Reinehr
and so far GC has (mostly) met the needs but now we’re looking at trying to have more data available that is not strictly just dollars and cents so to speak. In any case, are you (or anyone else here) aware of some common commercial packages? > > > > >> On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:31

Re: Vendor Bill - Invoice Entries

2017-10-16 Thread C M Reinehr
I second the comments by Michael. While I use GnuCash to keep up with my personal accounting, for my business I use commercial accounting software which provides all of the modules described and quite a few more. You can license as few or as many modules as desired -- at a cost, of course. So,

Re: Version Migration

2017-08-31 Thread C M Reinehr
I do something similar, working between my office PC & my home PC but I use SpiderOakONE to backup & synchronize the two PC's. However, my GnuCash file is an SQLite database and I found that SOO did not play well with the GnuCash file, since GnuCash writes each transaction, one at a time to the

Re: Version Migration

2017-08-31 Thread C M Reinehr
There may be other ways to backup the database, but there is a built-in .dump command which will "dump" the entire contents data & schema into an SQL formatted, text file. This file can then be read back by sqlite to replicate the entire database. Since an sqlite database is just a single file