Re: [GNC] transaction imported do not show up

2019-02-16 Thread David Carlson
I hope that no news from anatoly means that he has found his missing transactions. David Carlson On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 3:52 PM David Cousens wrote: > Thanks David, > > I had suspected that GnuCash remembered the initial account assignment as > that was my experience of it bu

Re: [GNC] transaction imported do not show up

2019-02-16 Thread David Carlson
. The dates, however, must appear in a certain format, and if incorrect, will usually cause an import to fail except possibly the first or second week of the year. That is all spelled out [except the Imbalance part] in the OFX specification used by all institutions that know how to apply it. David

Re: [GNC] transaction imported do not show up

2019-02-14 Thread David Carlson
lected. Good Luck. David Carlson On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:44 PM anatoly wrote: > Thanks David: Doesn't work. > > -Anatoly > On 2/14/19 15:58, David Carlson wrote: > > anatoly, > > In the bank or credit card register where the downloaded transactions are >

Re: [GNC] transaction imported do not show up

2019-02-14 Thread David Carlson
anatoly, In the bank or credit card register where the downloaded transactions are not appearing check View > Filter By.. and be sure Show All is selected. David Carlson On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:23 PM anatoly wrote: > Hi David: I didn't get it. I open gnucash. Normally it knows the

Re: [GNC] Struggling with Quicken import

2019-02-12 Thread David Carlson
the accounts and categories that exist in those transactions. David Carlson On Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:04 PM Bucky Carr > Quicken2016 has a .PRN export option that looks like this: > > "Date","Num","Payee","Category","Memo","Amo

Re: [GNC] Struggling with Quicken import

2019-02-12 Thread David Carlson
I am not by my Gnucash right now but if I recall, there is a slightly different work path to import accounts without transactions. David Carlson On Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 12:22 PM dmacklewis I installed Gnucash 3.4.1 on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and created a file > with one account

Re: [GNC] Importing Quicekn Files

2019-02-12 Thread David Carlson
I just peeked at Quicken 2019 and they also have a QXF file format which does not work for GnuCash either. I did not have time to figure out what they do use that format for. For us it is another tree in the forest. David Carlson On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:23 PM John Ralls wrote

Re: [GNC] transaction imported do not show up

2019-02-12 Thread David Carlson
Do not overlook the possibility that you may be looking in the wrong file for the fresh data. Usually it is easiest to employ a file manager to look for data files that have the correct name and recent date stamps. David Carlson On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:20 PM David Cousens wrote: > Anat

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts

2019-02-10 Thread David Carlson
amount. This will be apparent in your chart of accounts view. You do not need to run a report to see that. David Carlson On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:45 PM Nathanial Jones wrote: > SPAXX is just the fund that Fidelity puts your cash balance into. I just > treat it as cash and ignore th

Re: [GNC] GC 3.4 quit aborts file save process (was Re: postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes)

2019-02-10 Thread David Carlson
want to set up a test of release 3.4 but I need to review all the prep necessary to be able to return to 2.6.19 after the test, so that will take a while. I also need to be able to return to 2.6 17 in Linux on a different machine with my current data file. David Carlson On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 7

Re: [GNC] GC 3.4 quit aborts file save process (was Re: postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes)

2019-02-10 Thread David Carlson
. I will have some time in a couple of hours. David Carlson On Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 10:33 PM John Ralls David, > > Can you reproduce the interrupted save on Windows? I haven't tried that or > Linux yet, though I was able to easily do so on Mac. The quit code path is > a bit different

Re: [GNC] Transactions not appearing in report

2019-02-09 Thread David Carlson
Nancy, Did you revise the Accounts selections for the report(s) to include the new accounts? That must be done manually in the configurations for most reports. David Carlson On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 6:52 PM Nancy Tague wrote: > I’ve been using GnuCash only a few months, since I took o

Re: [GNC] GC 3.4 quit aborts file save process (was Re: postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes)

2019-02-09 Thread David Carlson
removal when using the default data file format. This is even more critical if the process takes a long time due to various circumstances including large file size or leaving several open windows and/or reports open when closing the file. David Carlson On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 6:01 PM John Ralls

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

2019-02-08 Thread David Carlson
If he hasn't deleted his backups yet he may be able to pick one before the event and re-run the scheduled transactions. Just a thought David Carlson On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 11:39 AM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry > wrote: > > >

Re: [GNC] I just need a line feed

2019-02-07 Thread David Carlson
. Last, I need to be sure to save the file with a modified filename but the original suffix in text-only format. That is working for me. Of course the linefeeds do need to be correctly placed for the application. David Carlson On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:06 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > &g

Re: [GNC] Debian Files for GnuCash 3.4-x

2019-02-07 Thread David Carlson
s out I have an old Dell tower that could become my GnuCash machine. Before I start, is this a viable plan? David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lis

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

2019-02-05 Thread David Carlson
I was not trying to assign any blame or credit for the new scrollbars. IIRC I first saw one in a GTK3 application, and I was definitely upset by not having a page up page down function on my mouse. If you have not seen that yet, you eventually will. David Carlson On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:02 PM

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

2019-02-05 Thread David Carlson
page. Thus there is no longer a 'page up' 'page down' function with the mouse button. That gets very annoying when reading a long document. David Carlson On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:17 PM Steve Cohen wrote: > On 2/5/19 2:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > GTK3 as default rather than GTK2.

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

2019-02-05 Thread David Carlson
If you are using release 18.04 the default desktop was switched from Unity to Gnome and that Gnome probably uses GTK3 as default rather than GTK2. I think those scroll bars first appeared there but they seem to be becoming as fashionable as useless 'antique' bathroom sinks. David Carlson On Tue

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-05 Thread David Carlson
library. Most of what you will find here is based on the assumption that the stock or fund is bought or sold from the same security account at the same brokerage house, not 'in kind' transfers between brokers or from your safety deposit box to you

Re: [GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

2019-02-05 Thread David Carlson
ata file. Sometimes a bad data file can cause a crash. Again the exact procedure escapes me, but other users or devs may be able to help. Sorry I cannot be more help right now. David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
What version Gnucash? what os? On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:27 PM Bostjan Vilfan wrote: > Hello, > I haven't used gnucash for some time, and when I tried to call the program > the splash screen appears, and the program immediately terminates. Can > someone help? > Regards, > bostjanv >

Re: [GNC] Transferring portion of mutual fund account to another fund account

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
ask your accountant. David Carlson On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 6:37 PM Harry Foerster Hello I'm a recent user of Gnucash coming over from the Quicken world. > > > > I would like to get some guidance on how to properly transfer a portion of > a > mutual fund total units in acco

Re: [GNC] Smarter dating of account reconcile

2019-02-04 Thread David Carlson
most banks post statements monthly on either the same date or very close, it works fine for me as is except for the fourth month in non-leap-years for some crazy reason. David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update yo

Re: [GNC] Question about display of reports

2019-02-02 Thread David Carlson
Mark, you left out which version you are using. On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:08 PM Mark Stockwell via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi > > Whenever I run a report from my version of Gnucash, for every line > displaying balances, there is another ghost column to the right with

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] [MAINT] server upgrade planned Feb 3, 2019 1200-2300 US/EST

2019-02-02 Thread David Carlson
Isn't there a football game scheduled at 5:30 pm ct? On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 3:17 PM Derek Atkins Hi, > > Just a reminder that this is planned for tomorrow. I'm still not 100% > sure of the exact timing, but I'll announce on IRC before I start and > will be available on IRC during the process.

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

2019-02-02 Thread David Carlson
On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 5:50 AM Maf. King wrote: > On Saturday, 2 February 2019 11:29:20 GMT humming.b...@posteo.net wrote: > > > > PS: There's a typo in the Android note "/Note that GnuCash for Android > > is not a *port *of the GnuCash program to Android.*"*/ > > > > Yeah, I can see it isn't

Re: [GNC] Unable to pick date/description/credit or debit column headers

2019-02-01 Thread David Carlson
t's own title section. Then you will be able to select each field separately. David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-

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

2019-02-01 Thread David Carlson
enefit of all. I don’t take the approach that > someone asking for help is not interested in or capable of understanding > the questions asked or implementing the suggestions being offered if they > go beyond, “click this ‘Easy’ button right here." > > Regards, > Adrien > &

Re: [GNC] undo needed, was Re: Reconciliation is not adding up correctly

2019-01-31 Thread David Carlson
ions of program, user and data. Twenty percent or more unavailability is not acceptable. Worse, Auto means that it happens exactly when the quarterback has the ball, the defensive line is breaking through, the receivers are all covered with flypaper and the TV replay cameras are not properly aimed. That is why

Re: [GNC] Gnucash leadership team

2019-01-31 Thread David Carlson
to contribute favorably to the development. The fact that GnuCash has survived and grown for as many years has it has is a sign that it has staying power. David Carlson On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:27 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Cricket Onebit wrote: > > > Before I comm

Re: [GNC] undo needed, was Re: Reconciliation is not adding up correctly

2019-01-31 Thread David Carlson
s. The scenario you describe is exactly when my action plan to save before every import, every reconcile, and every 31 minutes pays off. David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefer

Re: [GNC] undo needed, was Re: Reconciliation is not adding up correctly

2019-01-30 Thread David Carlson
Elmar, True, but if you have been keeping backups you can open a backup file simultaneously with your data file, find the eroneously deleted transaction, copy it [Transaction > Copy], return to the main file and paste it back in [Transaction > Paste Transaction]. I do this a few times each year

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-29 Thread David Carlson
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 12:31 PM Jason Voss Not receiving duplicates.However, I am receiving lots of email.Trying to > identify topic categories of interest to cut down on volumn.It is far from > clear where or how to define these. > I don't want to unsubscribe but I need a large reduction in total

Re: [GNC] reconcile history

2019-01-29 Thread David Carlson
An issue that I frequently have is that when I download transactions from a credit card account there is always one or more payments that now also appear in the bank account if I did not notice and match it up correctly to the transaction from the bank during the import process. Since this is

Re: [GNC] moving info securities from windows to linux

2019-01-28 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 9:31 PM uhopfer@gmail Where does gnucash keep info about securities and can this info be moved > to linux? I have been using gnucash for several years on windows and > download security prices. This info about securities in not in the > *.gnucash data file. Gnucash is

Re: [GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

2019-01-28 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 3:10 PM Bucky Carr wrote: > > 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

Re: [GNC] Printer Problems

2019-01-27 Thread David Carlson
Lester, Regarding your underlying question, GnuCash has been playing catch-up with printer support in Windows for years. Releases in the 2.6 series sometimes had issues in Windows 7. I am still using Windows 7 on one of my computers but I prefer to run GnuCash on one of my Linux machines. I

Re: [GNC] Postponing reconciliation-ending balance

2019-01-26 Thread David Carlson
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 11:00 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net wrote: > You could just click away from the Reconciliation window, go back to > GnuCash, enter your transaction, and then upon returning to the > reconciliation, you can proceed. I’ve done this several times. That

Re: [GNC] How to remove unused accounts

2019-01-25 Thread David Carlson
Lorrie, There are some other choices. If you want some accounts that you do not use to be omitted from some reports use the Accounts selection for those reports to only select the accounts you want. If there are old accounts that are essentially just missing the last transaction to close them

Re: [GNC] Trouble entering Fund sale transaction

2019-01-19 Thread David Carlson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 8:14 PM Michael Matz wrote: > Try entering the number of shares, clear the value for price, entering the > total value and then hit return. GnuCash should then calculate the price. > > Michael > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 5:11 AM Steve Kelem > > I have an account that is

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-19 Thread David Carlson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 11:50 AM stephen.m.butler51 < stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com wrote: > My CC is set up as a straight liability account. Reconciliation works > fine with it. > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > Original message From: john_mike < >

Re: [GNC] Date Completion - sliding 12 month window

2019-01-18 Thread David Carlson
Parke, I can tell you that I am using release 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity desktop and that setting works for me, but all preferences are very slw to respond, just as file saves are too. When I hover over the radio buttons the text background changes, and If I click the button

Re: [GNC] Features

2019-01-17 Thread David Carlson
> > > I migrated from Moneydance several years ago, then it was easy to use the QIF format. I think there were some rough edges, possibly involving stocks, so I recommend testing first. Good luck. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] OFX import sometimes loses transaction memos

2019-01-17 Thread David Carlson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 1:15 AM Geert Janssens Op donderdag 17 januari 2019 06:33:25 CET schreef David Carlson: > > I think that I need to spend more time examining the transactions that > had > > their memos dropped during import to see if I can find a threshold string > > le

Re: [GNC] OFX import sometimes loses transaction memos

2019-01-16 Thread David Carlson
ses any restrictions or not at this stage. > > > > David Cousens > > On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 18:19 -0600, David Carlson wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 4:36 PM David Cousens wrote: > >>> David > >>> > >&g

Re: [GNC] OFX import sometimes loses transaction memos

2019-01-16 Thread David Carlson
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 4:36 PM David Cousens David > > Have you tried examining the file with ofxdump? If you are on Linux, it can > be installed with "sudo apt install ofx". Not sure about how to get it for > WIndows or MacOS. It will dump to stdout whatever ofxdump can determine > about an ofx

[GNC] OFX import sometimes loses transaction memos

2019-01-16 Thread David Carlson
Using GnuCash 2.6.17? in Ubunutu 16.04 I noticed that the OFX importer from time to time will fail to import some, but not all transaction memos for only one of the banks that that are currently active in my data. This bank tends to send lenghthy memos. One of the failed memos had 98 ASCII

Re: [GNC] Formatting reply posts

2019-01-13 Thread David Carlson
Certainly you know how difficult it is to select text on a smartphone. David C On Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 3:01 PM Geert Janssens Op zondag 13 januari 2019 21:30:54 CET schreef Stan Brown: > > The real issue, I'm sorry top say, is that many people are lazy, and > > just start typing wherever their

Re: [GNC] Formatting reply posts

2019-01-12 Thread David Carlson
Unfortunately, gmail seems to force me into top posting by opening up my reply with the previous text at the bottom an d hidden below three dots. Especially on a tablet, where it is difficult to do anything more sophisticated than touchong a virtual keyboard with my thumb hoping I won't need

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
recently found the hp49g+ calculator that i bought about a decade ago and discovered that it can work either in exact or approximate CAS modes, as they describe them. And it still works! David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:31 AM Fred Bone wrote: > On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 9:44, David Carl

Re: [GNC] Investment Accounts not Displaying Decimals

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
I believe you just have to live with it in release 2.6.21 or several other releases below 3.3. You should be able to manually re save any particular entry in decimal form if it is really bothering you, but why bother if it does not appear that way in reports? David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:52

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
Absolutely, I was not expecting agreement with the bank, I just think the creation of an unbalanced transaction is bad form. David Carlson On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 9:03 AM John Ralls > > > On Jan 9, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Michael or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: &

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
I have created https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797032. David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:29 AM David Carlson wrote: > With those numbers payment number 2 has an error. > > David C > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:23 AM David Carlson > wrote: > >> I am wor

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
With those numbers payment number 2 has an error. David C On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:23 AM David Carlson wrote: > I am working on a test scenario.The interest formula is ipmt( 0.03500 / > 12.00 : i : 180.00 : 172,000.00 : 0 : 0 ), the others have the same numbers > and the 71st payment

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-09 Thread David Carlson
> > > On Jan 8, 2019, at 5:46 PM, Christopher Lam > wrote: > > > > Well the SCM has numerous references to "round" and "rounding errors" so > it's to be expected. > > > > Please file a bug with example numbers, and hopefully these

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-08 Thread David Carlson
wrote: > The thee functions are defined in > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/libgnucash/app-utils/fin.scm, > prefixed with gnc: (so gnc:ipmt etc.). > > At line 41ff you'll see that ppmt = pmt - ipmt. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Jan 8, 2019,

Re: [GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-08 Thread David Carlson
. If ipmt were expressed as pmt-ppmt, there would be no imbalance, but one of the other two ways to express all three may be less likely to generate inaccurate results. David C On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:19 PM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Jan 7, 2019, at 3:14 PM, David Carlson > w

Re: [GNC] ERROR MESSAGE - NO SUITABLE BACKEND FOUND

2019-01-07 Thread David Carlson
y don’t know. > > I am using Windows 10, home. > > > > Thx Tom. > > > > *From:* David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, January 7, 2019 3:01 PM > *To:* Tom Murphy > *Cc:* Gnucash Users > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] ERROR MESSAGE - NO SUITAB

Re: [GNC] ERROR MESSAGE - NO SUITABLE BACKEND FOUND

2019-01-07 Thread David Carlson
Tom, What version of GnuCash did you update from? David C On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 6:30 PM Tom Murphy I am using Windows 10 with the latest updates installed. In the > instructions it says the file is saved automatically so I am using whatever > the default is. > > -Original Message- >

Re: [GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

2019-01-07 Thread David Carlson
I wonder if GnuCash follows exactly the same rules for income and expense accounts that it does for asset and liability accounts. I know that I never bother with reconciling income or expense accounts. David C On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:22 PM Liz wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 07:34:35 -0800 >

[GNC] Loan Mortgage repayment assistant problem

2019-01-07 Thread David Carlson
I just had a scheduled transaction that was set up by the loan/mortgage repayment assistant appear with 0.01 Imbalance-USD. I would think that GnuCash should have an accuracy method that would prevent this from happening. Is this a bug? I am using GnuCash 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 today. David C

Re: [GNC] ERROR MESSAGE - NO SUITABLE BACKEND FOUND

2019-01-07 Thread David Carlson
That normally means that your data is in a database format but GnuCash does not have the correct tools to open it. This can happen after an update. Alas, I do not use a database format but I do know that there are differences depending on which operating system you are using. Let us know which

Re: [GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-06 Thread David Carlson
tried to paste into a spreadsheet the resulting cell structure was so bad that it was impossible to clean up to get a decent print anyway. David On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 9:55 AM Geert Janssens On Thursday, January 3, 2019 5:33:06 PM CET David Carlson wrote: > > I was able to run a quick test

Re: [GNC] Line entry creates incorrect balance

2019-01-04 Thread David Carlson
Ted, This is my initial advice to a new user: First skim through the Help manual up to chapter 6 https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml Then start GnuCash following the instructions in chapter 3 and create a test file with a minimal set of accounts. You should consider it to be a throw-away test,

Re: [GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-03 Thread David Carlson
paste the data to a new libreoffice calc file I get > only 'paste only' as an option under >edit, and nothing else recognisable > from >insert. > > > > I have tried 'insert sheet' under >insert but only get the option to > insert before or after and then cannot copy

[GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-03 Thread David Carlson
I had to paste this message into a different computer that is able send G-Mail, so I hope I got all the good parts... I was able to run a quick test using release 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 and found that first, when I tried to save a P report in HTML format GnuCash did not append a .html suffix. In

Re: [GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-03 Thread David Carlson
n to > > insert before or after and then cannot copy the 'new' sheet into an > > existing one, if I add 'after' > > > > There doesn't seem to be a method of cut and paste directly, afaics. > > > > Thanks, Barry > > > > On 02/01/2019 17:51,

Re: [GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

2019-01-02 Thread David Carlson
Finbar, You may need to first open a new blank spreadsheet then cut and paste from the html document into the spreadsheet rather than trying to directly open HTML with Calc. My experience with LibreOffice Calc is that it will import several different kinds of files. I use it regularly to

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

2019-01-02 Thread David Carlson
to skip all the effort to correctly account for realized gains and losses and just forward your brokers' tax report to your accountant. That is my 2 cents... David Carlson On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:12 AM D via gnucash-user wrote: > Jon, > > I can't test this right now, since I'm not at m

Re: [GNC] Non-zero starting balance?

2019-01-01 Thread David Carlson
Bo, If you still have copies of your bank statements you can review the register a nd compare the running balances to your statements to see if or when the balances do not match. If there are a few outstanding items at the end of a statement period they should account for any difference. You

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report keeps listing all my individual stocks

2019-01-01 Thread David Carlson
ign currency assets, it would be nice > to have another way to collapse the individual stock accounts, but this > solution will work for the time-being. A new challenge for another day. > > Thanks again! > > Stephen > > > > On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, 5:45:10 PM GMT-5, Dav

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report keeps listing all my individual stocks

2019-01-01 Thread David Carlson
gt; > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Adding an exchange to the list of exchanges (David T.) > 2. Re: Tutorial for moving stock between accounts? (David Carlson) > 3. Re: Tutorial for moving stock between accounts? (David Carlson) > 4. Re: Tutorial for moving stock bet

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

2018-12-31 Thread David Carlson
and purchase are just virtual transactions. This sort of situation might come up in transfers of custodial assets in or out of trusts or other tax favored accounts. David C[arlson] David C[arlson] On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 10:09 PM David Carlson wrote: > I forgot to mention that if the value has chan

Re: [GNC] Tutorial for moving stock between accounts?

2018-12-31 Thread David Carlson
Now David Cousens, you are confusing me. If you are referring to re-writing the original purchase transaction to correct an error, and the cash that is also transferred in that transaction is also corrected to the new brokerage account, then I agree with you. If, however, this is a new

Re: [GNC] Location of GnuCash data files

2018-12-31 Thread David Carlson
The thread GNCupdating advice seems to have answers that could apply to this thread. Adding to both: In the release 2.6.xx family, a simple method to find the last used data file is to start the File > Save as process and see where GnuCash wants to put the new file. Then cancel before actually

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-30 Thread David Carlson
Wow, that looks like a lot of progress has been made! Thanks to the developers for their hard work! David C On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:03 PM John Ralls wrote: > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.4, the fifth release of > the 3.x stable release series. > > Changes > > Between 3.3

Re: [GNC] How to journal this transaction?

2018-12-30 Thread David Carlson
I would either enter a simple transaction from a/r to expense or use two transactions , one from a/r to cash and one from cash to expense. David C On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 1:44 PM gn00b Someone owes me $100 (Accounts Receivable). But instead of paying me $100, > they pay for an expense of mine

Re: [GNC] Backspace key stops working

2018-12-30 Thread David Carlson
John requested that users report every detail of your actions leading up to the problem and exactly which keystrokes do not work. So far the developers cannot replicate the problem. A "Same here" comment does not help with diagnosing the problem. David C On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:09 AM

Re: [GNC] Import qif does not remember account allocation.

2018-12-30 Thread David Carlson
Dave W, Once is enough with the duplicated messages. The previous responses by John and Derek seemed to cover your concerns but since you are asking for elaboration, I as an experienced user can answer your questions #1 & #2. The QIF Import wizard in the GnuCash Releases 2.6.21 and earlier

Re: [GNC] "Save Report Configuration" Crashes GnuCash and Truncates saved-reports-2.8

2018-12-29 Thread David Carlson
David T, I am a little bit behind, as I am still using release 2.6.x where x ranges between 16 and 19 depending on which machine I have fired up, so I am still looking at a file named saved-reports-2..4, but I think that it is not too different from your file. I think you are aware that the file

Re: [GNC] Gnucash-created "closing" entries

2018-12-28 Thread David Carlson
Stan, You could try using the Close Books function to create model transactions then duplicate them to get copies that likely do not contain the odd dates. David C On Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 1:37 PM Stan Brown > From: David Cousens > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year

Re: [GNC] Getting the date order in a report ?

2018-12-24 Thread David Carlson
I am not sure if this will help. Check that the register sort order is set to date posted. If that does not work please let us know which GnuCash release you are using and your operating system. David C On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 4:49 AM Finbar Mahon Hello, this is not urgent, just so I don't

Re: [GNC] report filtering

2018-12-20 Thread David Carlson
Paul, If all the transactions are in only one account, start your Edit > Find >Number > Contains ... or Edit > Find > Number > Matches Regex ... operation from that account register. If they are in several accounts, start your Edit > Find >Number > Contains ... or Edit > Find > Number >

Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 189, Issue 50

2018-12-19 Thread David Carlson
Elmer, What thread are you responding to? David C On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 8:58 AM Elmar I gather this is only in version 3.x? Any hope for us still on version > 2.6.12 ? > > - Elmar > > On 12/18/18 10:58 PM, gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote: > > In GnC, click on the Tools menu and then on

Re: [GNC] Export Report to PDF - characters split across pages

2018-12-19 Thread David Carlson
Michael, Try exporting the report to html. David C On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 5:31 AM Michael Hendry wrote: > Here is a screen-shot to demonstrate the problem: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmde3eqphnhabp6/Screenshot%202018-12-19%2011.22.14.png?dl=0 > > The report is readable, but inelegant. >

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread David Carlson
a 'wildcard' type of accounts selection, it's a > good entry-level idea for a budding scheme hacker :) > > On 19/12/18 5:42 am, David Carlson wrote: > > On that subject, I would like to see a way to document the current > settings > > of a report, perhaps by including it as an a

Re: [GNC] Wildcard in standard report definiton

2018-12-18 Thread David Carlson
On that subject, I would like to see a way to document the current settings of a report, perhaps by including it as an appendix to the report printout. Then I would like to see a way to export and import settings from one data file to another. David C On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:58 PM Adrien

Re: [GNC] How do you print the check register?

2018-12-14 Thread David Carlson
Chris, By Check Register do you mean a list of transactions in one ban account? To do that, open the Account window for that bank account, Click on View > Filter By..., choose the date range that you want to print out, then choose Reports > Account Report, and print it out. Note that you may see

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

2018-12-10 Thread David Carlson
l Message- > From: gnucash-user blueyonder.co...@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Stephen M. Butler > Sent: 10 December 2018 17:47 > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected > > On 12/10/18 4:46 AM, Stan Brown wrote: > > Hi, Arni

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

2018-12-10 Thread David Carlson
hese have worked perfectly for > 11 months. > Best Regards > Arnie > > > > *From:* John Ralls > *Sent:* 10 December 2018 01:17 > *To:* Arnie Reeves > *Cc:* David Carlson ; Gnucash Users < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when a

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

2018-12-10 Thread David Carlson
ever I have the same excessive delay waiting for > Reports to open. Do you have any thoughts to correct this please. > > Best Regards > > Arnie > > > > > > > > *From:* John Ralls > *Sent:* 10 December 2018 14:26 > *To:* Arnie Reeves > *Cc:* David Carl

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

2018-12-09 Thread David Carlson
gt; fine) and 3.3 etc. Which is best, and bug free, for my simple home accounts. > > Arnie > > > > > > From: karnd...@blueyonder.co.uk > > Sent: 08 December 2018 21:37 > > To: David Carlson > > Cc: Gnucash Users > > Subject: Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Transfer column gone?

2018-12-08 Thread David Carlson
Starnes wrote: > As far as I know, I only got one response... to double-click on the dark > column line. Nothing happened with that. > > Gerry > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 3:57 PM David Carlson > wrote: > >> Gerry, >> >> Which of the three responses was the on

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Transfer column gone?

2018-12-08 Thread David Carlson
Gerry, Which of the three responses was the only one you tried? I personally think John Ralls' has the best chance of working, but as he stated it is very tricky to get the mouse focus into precisely the right spot. If that fails there is another way that requires deleting a file that also

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

2018-12-08 Thread David Carlson
I did forget to mention that I use Gnucash mostly in Ubuntu 16.04 with occasional forays into Windows 7 and rare forays into Windows 10. David C On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 3:21 PM David Carlson Arnie, > > Did you get a Windows update or have any other significant change to your >

Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

2018-12-08 Thread David Carlson
Arnie, Did you get a Windows update or have any other significant change to your computer? Release 2.6.19 itself has not changed, and various 2.6.x releases are still working for me. David C On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 12:10 PM Arnie Reeves via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org wrote: > I use

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Transfer column gone?

2018-12-06 Thread David Carlson
Just wondering, since there apparently is not a standardized trick to reset all column widths in the view, would toggling between 1 line and double line views or switching between basic ledger auto split ledger or transaction journal views make any difference? David C On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 11:04

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-04 Thread David Carlson
Another quirk to watch out for is whether Explorer was refreshed after the last file was created. David C On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:44 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > True. I forgot about that one. I use sqlite and indeed it is always > inactive. > > Regards, >

Re: [GNC] Text Files

2018-12-04 Thread David Carlson
Gareth, Windows does not show the file extensions in File Explorer unless you change a setting in your Windows preferences. Most of the experienced Windows users, A.K.A. 'Old Fogies' (like me) change that setting early on and forget that some people may not be familiar with it. The extension

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