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

2018-12-03 Thread David Carlson
Lorrie, I am away from my computer right now so I cannot confirm the exact wording, but it s something like how often to make backups. I dont remember the default. It may be only 5 minutes, I have it set to 30 minutes but I religiously do manual saves before certain activities such as imports.

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

2018-12-03 Thread David Carlson
Lorrie, If, at some time in the past you modified that data file with that (short) filename by going into Edit >Preferences > General and selecting 'Retain log/backup files: Never, then no log or backup files will be generated. You did not do that because you do see .log files being generated.

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Backup

2018-12-03 Thread David Carlson
Ian, I think you need to ask your cloud about that. Gnucash doesn't do backups. David C On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 5:50 PM IanCarol - PC I am using cloud backup service to back up my Gnu data. > I wish to be able to restore to a different PC. How can I do that? > > Ian Waterfield >

Re: [GNC] Text Files

2018-12-03 Thread David Carlson
I think that Windows calls them text files if once you opened one with Notepad. They are constructed with text characters, but they are not exactly human readable. David C On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 1:39 PM Gareth Davies via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org wrote: > Thanks for the reply D,

Re: [GNC] How to automate $ value on the contra account when editing a transaction

2018-12-03 Thread David Carlson
Interesting idea... I would like to see it implemented as a pop-up dialog asking the user if (s)he would like to update the 'other side' to the same value if it is a simple two line transaction. If the user closes the transaction without responding yes the imbalance amount is entered. David C

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-02 Thread David Carlson
ts to pdf and it will print. However, the result is a > blank page. HB > > On 12/2/2018 9:00 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > That behavior is very similar to what you see when the output goes to the > wrong printer. > > Have you tried things like printing to PDF or printing from a

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-02 Thread David Carlson
he Pages area is blank. This indicates there are no pages to print > - I think. If I then go ahead and click on print then the print icon shows > up in the bottom tray. But it indicates there are no documents in the cue. > It then goes away after a couple of minutes. > > Thanks, > > HB > >

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-01 Thread David Carlson
You can see how old this bug is, I am not sure if you can run IE9 in windows 10. Perhaps someone knows if this work-around can be adapted to WIN 10. On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:40 AM David Carlson wrote: > HB, > > I found the bug report. Check comment 40. > > https://b

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-01 Thread David Carlson
oblems. That may > be my inability to search properly. So if anyone knows the fix that you are > referring to I hope they will give me the location. > > Thanks for the help, > > HB > On 12/1/2018 1:30 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > That looks identical to the same file on

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-01 Thread David Carlson
hanks for the help, > > HB > > HB Sidman > 703-938-6700 (O) 703-562-1953 (F) > > On 12/1/2018 11:46 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > I did not address the failure to print problem. That is probably not > related to the .chk files but something else. Can you print r

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-01 Thread David Carlson
I did not address the failure to print problem. That is probably not related to the .chk files but something else. Can you print reorts? David C On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:42 AM David Carlson wrote: > HB, > > Windows always calls *.chk files 'Recovered File Fragments' > &g

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

2018-12-01 Thread David Carlson
HB, Windows always calls *.chk files 'Recovered File Fragments' If the files are in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash\checks' directory they are not fragments but the files that you want, at least for 2.6.x releases of GnuCash in Windows. You can open them (carefully) with

Re: [GNC] Can't lock user???

2018-11-28 Thread David Carlson
Your subject line is misleading. I think you are having issues with Actions > Online Actions > Get Transactions... Is that correct? It would be helpful to know what version GnuCash you are running and your computer OS. David C On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:37 PM Hook wrote: > I have 3 users

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread David Carlson
I just found a discussion about how it is applied in GnuCash: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bayes I am not sure if it still applies to release 3.x. David C On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:47 AM David Carlson wrote: > Joseph, > > If you are looking for a technically detailed answer, Gnu

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread David Carlson
Joseph, If you are looking for a technically detailed answer, GnuCash uses a technique called Bayesian matching which is well known in mathematical circles. The success is very dependent on the details of implementation, and GnuCash took steps toward improvement in the 3.x series by using a

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-27 Thread David Carlson
The developers cannot guarantee anything. Many users have had good results, but many of us needed to run tests with about a month's data at a time mostly because Quicken allowed sloppy records that do not import very well. If that is your situation you might be better served to manipulate

Re: [GNC] Moving to Gnucash 3

2018-11-25 Thread David Carlson
; based on what you've read. > > > > > > There are issues, but it's not like gnucash 3.x has suddenly become > > > completely > > > unusable. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Geert > > > > > > Op zondag 25

Re: [GNC] Moving to Gnucash 3

2018-11-24 Thread David Carlson
Paul, You are not the only one that concerned about whether the new releases meet your needs any better than what you used before. A bird in hand is better... I am staying with my favorite 2.6.15 or 2.6.17 until I am satisfied that 3.4 or whatever is sufficiently well debugged to not present

Re: [GNC] Import CSV Multi-currency

2018-11-24 Thread David Carlson
GTI, Whenever there is more than one currency in a transaction GnuCash creates a split to record the exchange between currencies, so there is a separate split line for each currency. When a multi-currency transaction is imported, there will be two split lines, not one. That is an artifact of

Re: [GNC] Import CSV Multi-currency

2018-11-22 Thread David Carlson
2018 às 01:14, David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> GTI, >> >> While I am not addressing the issue you stated in your first post, I do >> expect an import to consider existing multi-split transactions that match >> the amount and ti

Re: [GNC] Import CSV Multi-currency

2018-11-22 Thread David Carlson
nto multi-line requires extensive extra > processing because I have a ton of transactions. > > Em qui, 22 de nov de 2018 às 21:09, David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com> escreveu: > > > I have not used the new CSV importer, so I am not sure whether this > com

Re: [GNC] Import CSV Multi-currency

2018-11-22 Thread David Carlson
I have not used the new CSV importer, so I am not sure whether this comment actually applies to your case... If the new CSV importer is used similarly to the old CSV importer, there is a step in the process to offer an opportunity to match the new transaction to existing transactions if there are

[GNC] Account ID when importing CSV Transactions

2018-11-18 Thread David Carlson
I have been using GnuCash for many years and I am still using release 2.6.17 or similar depending on which computer I am using. I just noticed that when I am importing a CSV transactions file and I get to the step to determine which account to import the transactions into, the list of accounts

Re: [GNC] Could not read the contents of GnuCash: Error opening directory '[path name here]': Permission denied

2018-11-16 Thread David Carlson
There could be several problems, and you may need to do some research to figure out which you are having and how to work around it. First, are you able to open and mount the Veracrypt volume. You will need to have the Veracrypt program installed and running and have your Veracrypt key to succeed

Re: [GNC] order of transactions for mutual funds

2018-11-14 Thread David Carlson
€ capital losses > > I hope it is now easier to understand my initial question. > > Thanks! > > > > El mié., 14 nov. 2018 a las 19:40, David Carlson (< > david.carlson@gmail.com>) escribió: > >> If funds were used to buy a different security f

Re: [GNC] order of transactions for mutual funds

2018-11-14 Thread David Carlson
n't the lots > functionality work for them? I believe that it uses FIFO exclusively... > > David T. > > On November 14, 2018, at 8:23 PM, David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think that Christian is asking a slightly different question. I > inter

Re: [GNC] order of transactions for mutual funds

2018-11-14 Thread David Carlson
I think that Christian is asking a slightly different question. I interpret it that in one parent custodial mutual fund account he purchased Fund A on dates 1, 2 and later then sold some or all of Fund A and bought Fund B in the same custodial account on date 3. Now I am not sure if he needs to

Re: [GNC] How to identify the parent account of any sub-account

2018-11-13 Thread David Carlson
I do not need to file a bug report about a missing highlight since it is only missing in release 2.6.17 and possibly other 2.6.x releases but not in the current 3.3 release. However, judging by recent flurry of emails regarding control over the new (to GnuCash) GTK-3 tools, it may not easy for

[GNC] How to identify the parent account of any sub-account

2018-11-12 Thread David Carlson
I have recently observed that in release 2.6.17 of GnuCash the parent account is not highlighted in the Edit Account window, at least when account colors are used for some accounts. Since release 2.6.17 is no longer supported by the developers, and, in fact, the current release uses a completely

Re: [GNC] (no subject)

2018-11-09 Thread David Carlson
I think that editing the FITID of a transaction in the OFX file will also trigger a 'new' import. David C On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:38 AM Derek Atkins wrote: > Changing the date on the transaction is not sufficient; GnuCash stores the > unique FITID to match against the OFX file, so it will

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

2018-11-04 Thread David Carlson
I based the estimate to be massive on your comments that you said you lost hundreds of transactions and it will take hours to reconstruct your lost data. If you make a backup every 15 minutes, you should only lose 15 minutes work at most. David C Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 7:56 PM btrib 100

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

2018-11-04 Thread David Carlson
Btrib, I believe the CSV importer in release 3.3 is greatly improved over the old importer. However, being relatively new it probably has a few kinks remaining to be worked out. IT appears that you are trying to do a massive import from old files, possibly without sufficient planning and

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
So because Liinux does not use a backslash, that is erroneous? On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:15 PM Wm via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 01/11/2018 09:27, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:09:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: > >> On 31/10/2018 01:24, D

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
that is not a constructive comment. David C On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:00 PM Wm wrote: > On 01/11/2018 09:19, Colin Law wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 08:23, Wm via gnucash-user > > wrote: > >> > >> On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: > >>> Check out

Re: [GNC] delete transactions

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
James, Look under File>Properties>Accounts and see if you have set a value for Day Threshold for read only transactions. If so, either increase the number of days or set it to zero to disable it. Then you should be able to edit the transaction to assign an account to any split line or even add

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
If I recall correctly QDF format is a proprietary and encrypted format owned by Intuit. The only way to extarct the data is to use the Guicken program to open the file and then export to QIF format. Hang on to Quicken until you have experimented with importing the QIF files into GnuCash to be

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-01 Thread David Carlson
Wm, If you think that link contains incorrect and misleading information, why don't you contact the developers and help them correct it. David C On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:22 AM Wm via gnucash-user wrote: > On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: > > Check out

Re: [GNC] int

2018-10-31 Thread David Carlson
I do not think it is possible to make a zero value transaction split line actually show zeros. Years ago I set up a special income account that I called 'zComments' [to make it sort to the bottom] to use as a collector for transactions that were there just as reminders. Since then, GnuCash now

Re: [GNC] Online Banking Upgrade hosed Name and Memo field

2018-10-30 Thread David Carlson
changed credit > unions. Besides this one problem, I'm pretty happy at this one. > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, at 11:41 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > What do you mean by online banking.? Are you actually using the OFX > import? > > If so, just do not use

Re: [GNC] No longer able to reconcile register accounts

2018-10-29 Thread David Carlson
Obviously the solution to your problem is to move to Arizona! David C On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:09 AM Colin Law wrote: > I am seeing similar problems in the UK running 3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10, from > Ubuntu repo. > The issue occurs if one tries to enter 28/10/18 in the statement date, > which is

Re: [GNC] alpha advantage

2018-10-28 Thread David Carlson
eekend. What list are you talking about that > I should "search?" > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 9:57 PM David Carlson > wrote: > >> Steven, >> >> AlphaVantage stopped working for those of us with more than a few >> securities several months ago when t

Re: [GNC] alpha advantage

2018-10-28 Thread David Carlson
Steven, AlphaVantage stopped working for those of us with more than a few securities several months ago when they started throttling services. Some of us have also had issues after downloading release 3.3 or so of GnuCash. Search this list for info that seems to match your particular problem or

Re: [GNC] OFX import file xml tags for accounts

2018-10-26 Thread David Carlson
John, GnuCash is designed to remember those choices after the first import. Sometimes the choices vary, but GnuCash always proposes a choice and gives you a chance to override it. David C On Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 4:20 PM John A Brown wrote: > gnuCash successfully imports OFX file from my bank.

Re: [GNC] Upgrade and Importing

2018-10-25 Thread David Carlson
Congratulations to Sunfish62 and Fell for doing an incredible job of revising that page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup. to make it very easy to read and removing all the fluff. David C On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:31 PM D via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Just copy them.

Re: [GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

2018-10-22 Thread David Carlson
Christian, You are referring to the "Tutorial and Concepts Guide where it says: "Account for the profit or loss as coming from an Income:Capital Gains or Expenses:Capital Loss account. " (section 9.7.1.1)" I presume, since the preferred method of accounting for capital losses may vary according

Re: [GNC] Report Loading GC 3.3

2018-10-21 Thread David Carlson
David T, I hope that is intentional to make GnuCash load faster. Does it save time for you? David C On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 3:05 AM David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I just noticed that on v.3.3, reports do not load on startup. In version > 2.x, all

Re: [GNC] Split Transaction now lists 2 items?

2018-10-19 Thread David Carlson
19, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 14:39, David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> ...So if you want to see only one line in the register view for a > >> particular account, enter only t

Re: [GNC] Split Transaction now lists 2 items?

2018-10-19 Thread David Carlson
...So if you want to see only one line in the register view for a particular account, enter only the total in the split line for that account. There can still be as many other split lines as you want. David C On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 4:40 AM cicko wrote: > Jack, correct me if I'm wrong, I

Re: [GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

2018-10-13 Thread David Carlson
Colin, Does the entire window width depend on on the current width of columns other than the description column? David C On Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 8:17 AM Colin Law wrote: > Yet more information. I don't think the basic behaviour has changed since > 2.6.19, the difference is that the minimum

Re: [GNC] Latest Manual?

2018-10-10 Thread David Carlson
That couldn't possibly be junk. It has to be history!!!  David C On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:50 AM Derek Atkins wrote: > John Ralls writes: > > > When I search using Google for “gnucash manual” I get that docs.phtml > > first, followed by the version 3 pdf for the T, the version 3 pdf > >

Re: [GNC] checking account

2018-10-10 Thread David Carlson
ally has SubAccounts. David C On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 8:19 AM varda241 wrote: > Thanks, but all 3 views still have the same view of 3 or 4 lines. > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > ---- Original message > From: David Carlson

Re: [GNC] checking account

2018-10-09 Thread David Carlson
Hi Varda241, It sounds like you are used to seeing the Basic Ledger View with a single line setting. Possibly, the Funds In and Funds Out columns were called On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:02 PM Varda Rotenberg via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Had to reinstall gnucash on ubuntu

Re: [GNC] checking account

2018-10-09 Thread David Carlson
Hi Varda241, It sounds like you are used to seeing the Basic Ledger View with a single line setting. Possibly, the Funds In and Funds Out columns were called Deposit and Withdrawal. These features can be changed easily. If you go to the Gnucash.org website and find the Help manual and Tutoria

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transaction list column for a ount

2018-10-08 Thread David Carlson
Joel, I have not found a way to add columns to that list. What I like to do is append the amount and the "home" or bank account name to each description When I save it. David C On Mon, Oct 8, 2018, 10:59 AM joel_graff wrote: > Is it possible to show the amount of the scheduled transactions

Re: [GNC] Log In Change & Gnu

2018-10-05 Thread David Carlson
That sounds like a permissions issue. You need to be sure that both the GnuCash program and your data file are accessible under your new User ID. David C On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:57 PM Colin Law wrote: > Which operating system are you using? > How are you trying to open the accounts? > Try

Re: [GNC] PriceQuotes and AlphaVantage assistance request

2018-10-04 Thread David Carlson
nvsoar, You could look at getting some of your prices via yahoo_json instead of Alphavantage. It is near the bottom of the Single Quote source list in the security editor. That works for me with US stocks. David C On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:56 PM John Ralls wrote: > > > > On 4 Oct 2018, at

Re: [GNC] Price Editor

2018-09-20 Thread David Carlson
Les, that seems very strange as the price editor should be displaying all the prices that are currently in the data file. Are you using the regular XML data file format or a database format? David C On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:20 PM Les wrote: > I have noticed that beginning this week

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-19 Thread David Carlson
s prompting I found > them to be unnacceptably slow. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > On Sep 18, 2018, at 11:36 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > John, > > Did you find a reference to floating point in my last message? If so it > was obsolete or inadvertent, as I k

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-19 Thread David Carlson
or typos > > El mié., 19 sept. 2018 1:22, David Carlson > escribió: > >> There have been several discussions over the years around various aspects >> of the topics of numeric accuracy, displaying accurate values vs easily >> readable values, whether GnuCash records do

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread David Carlson
f the CSV is > opened with calc/excel we need to modify all the prices to be considered > numbers not strings (i.e. insert "=123 + 3/45"). > > Thanks for your suggestions!! > > > > El sáb., 15 sept. 2018 a las 16:26, David Carlson (< > david.carlson@gmail.com>) es

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-15 Thread David Carlson
he decimal formal is converted to > fractional format, but fractional number is not the same that I inserted > before. :-( > > Any idea? > > -- > Christian Pinedo Zamalloa (zako) > Sent from my mobile device, please excuse brevity or typos > > El sáb., 15 sept. 2018 14:4

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-15 Thread David Carlson
Christian Pinedo Zamalloa You have discovered that it is impossible to have all three values shares, price and total exactly as reported by your broker because he usually has to round off one of the numbers. The solution is to let GnuCash set the price after you enter the number of shares and

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-15 Thread David Carlson
AM David Carlson wrote: > One more detail: in the General Ledger, when changing the criteria to > matches regex, entering .* for the regex and changing type to add results > to current search, the new result is not filtered by date as it was > originally. In fact, the View > F

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-15 Thread David Carlson
ble. I did not test the condition where the filter setting may have been saved at the beginning of the trial. David On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:35 PM David Carlson wrote: > The help manual Chapter 8 section 8.1 fails to point out that the find > assistant [Split Search] Type of Search defaul

Re: [GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-14 Thread David Carlson
urrent search" in the search type radio box." I hope that we can get all of that into the help manual. David C On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:31 PM D wrote: > I think you just close the search tab. > > On September 14, 2018, at 6:13 PM, David Carlson < > david.carlson

[GNC] searching in General Ledger View

2018-09-14 Thread David Carlson
While I happen to be using release 2.6.19 or so, I think my problem is still current. I opened a general ledger view then I searched for transactions containing certain text in the description. This left the results in the general ledger view. How do I return to the general ledger view before the

Re: [GNC] Importing csv transactions

2018-09-10 Thread David Carlson
Paul, Actually, during the CSV format you can scroll down the data that you are about to import to see if there are any lines that will prevent the import. Just scroll down the date column to see if there are any dates that do not match your selected date format. From experience I can tell you

Re: [GNC] Saving in GnuCash painfully slow: what can I do?

2018-09-08 Thread David Carlson
This bug report https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804 addresses Release 3.2 with HiDPI monitors in Windows 10 cases. Also has there been any attempt to isolate the effect of having reports open? I also recall that there was a bug report suggesting that having many backup files in the

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Question

2018-09-06 Thread David Carlson
Mark, I suggest trying your proposed fix on a test copy of your datafile. You may find that you also need to re-reconcile other months or "indulge" in some creative temporary offsetting transactions to get August or September reconciliations to end with the correct ending balance. I have not

Re: [GNC] Taking an existing transaction and scheduling future repeats

2018-09-03 Thread David Carlson
Right click and schedule has been a feature for a long time. In fact that is my preferred way to do it On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 3:21 PM Colin Law wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 21:14, Stan Brown > wrote: > > ... > > I'd like to right-click it and have one of the options be to start the > >

Re: [GNC] file save over network taking very long time

2018-08-31 Thread David Carlson
I have refrained from commenting on this because I do not run release 3.x, but now I will, in case it helps the developers to think of other issues that may be in play. I am running release 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 installed on a VirtualBox guest and either viewing it directly or using PuTTY with

Re: [GNC] Help breaking up a file

2018-08-28 Thread David Carlson
Eric, GnuCash is known to be slow to open, but there are some tricks to make it faster. One is to just leave it open until you close down your computer. Another is to close all reports before closing GnuCash. I think keeping the file on a local SSD would help, tho I cannot verify by personal

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-20 Thread David Carlson
different ’tricks’ for using those and other fields >> to accomplish user specific goals are (or should be) documented. >> >> I would be happy to get set up for editing and start on this unless you >> already planned on running with it. >> >> Fin

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-20 Thread David Carlson
ith it. > > Finally, “Tutorial & Concepts Guide” is a bit winded. Could it simply be > “Tutorial” or “Using GnuCash”? (and then incorporate any ‘official’ methods > from that wiki page into the document, with a link to that page for the > non-standard methods) > > Regards,

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-20 Thread David Carlson
I just tried to find reference to the rate field in the Tutorial and I found nothing. I think it should probably be mentioned in chapter 4 section 4.2. That section even fails to explain single line vs two line view or dragging around field widths, so it has a long way to go before it could

Re: [GNC] Reconcilliation deferal

2018-08-17 Thread David Carlson
In earlier (2.6.x) versions of GnuCash one could highlight any transaction in the reconcile window and either click the edit button i the title bar or double click the transaction in the reconcile window to go directly to that transaction in the register, edit it and return to resume reconciling.

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-17 Thread David Carlson
I think that some installations of Debian and Ubuntu (and probably most other flavors of Linux) default to 600x800 pixels if there is not a good screen driver installed. The Dell Inspiron may need a non-free driver. That could cause what Graham is seeing. I thought that GnuCash could deal with

Re: [GNC] 3.2 and missing colors on accounts page

2018-08-16 Thread David Carlson
That was broken in some of the early beta releases. Has it been fixed? David C On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 5:14 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Look under Preferences > Accounts > Account Colors. (at the bottom) One > preference controls the tab, one the background

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation, v. 2

2018-08-16 Thread David Carlson
Somewhat terse, but I like it. David C On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:00 PM, David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I’ve attempted to incorporate the suggestions that others have made for > the section on file storage formats, and I attach the resulting version 2 > for

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-16 Thread David Carlson
Graham, Try temporarily to grab the right edge of the Account field and drag it left until it is very narrow. That should make it easier to see the Balance. After double clicking or dragging the right edge to fix Balance double click Account and lastly drag the right edge of Description way

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-15 Thread David Carlson
While file backups are not germane to the topic, it might be nice to mention them in passing as the users might tailor their procedure to the particular data type they choose. David C On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:46 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > I believe SQLite is included on Windows as well. > -derek

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation flag revision

2018-08-13 Thread David Carlson
Dale Watch that other thread about release 3.2 possibly different from 2.6.x. So far I have not seen any comments about whether editing the action field does or does not unreconcile a particular split line. David C On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 1:03 PM Adrien Monteleone <

Re: [GNC] Frequency of 28 Days

2018-08-12 Thread David Carlson
That should be on the frequency tab of the scheduled transaction editor. David C On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 2:44 PM, David Carlson wrote: > I also feels Colin's frustration because "it doesn't work" is not an > adequate description of your problem. > > Take a screen shot

Re: [GNC] Frequency of 28 Days

2018-08-12 Thread David Carlson
, 12 Aug 2018 at 18:24, Andrew Bell wrote: > > > Colin, you really need to take a chill pill or leave the gnucash forum. I > > have tried all that has been said. I will try again when my dogs stop > > bouncing around. > > > > Three replies from myself, one from Dav

Re: [GNC] Get Quote is Not Working?

2018-08-11 Thread David Carlson
Not quite... If you have a sacrificial computer such as a Virtualbox machine, try release 3.2 on it first, along with a test copy of your data file. Then, if you do not like the results you have not corrupted your main machine. Before installing 3.2 on a Windows machine, I would suggest making a

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Report

2018-08-10 Thread David Carlson
Which version of GnuCash are you using and which OS? On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 8:59 AM, Mike stagl wrote: > When running a stock reconciliation report, I cannot get the Start Date > and End Date to work correctly. If I choose Start of Previous Month and > End of Previous Month, or even use

Re: [GNC] Going Back to Go Forward?

2018-08-06 Thread David Carlson
I would consider needing to close and reopen a bank account register after each transaction edit executed by pasting some text from the clipboard to be a major showstopper when I have ten or twenty transaction s a day. David C On Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 10:42 PM Michael via gnucash-user <

Re: [GNC] liability or expense

2018-08-06 Thread David Carlson
I don't know how Google Play works. If it is like a credit card then you are spending money on some expenses, possibly movies during a month then paying Google later, then you are missing the expenses which you have now paid for. Look at your bill from Google to see those expenses and add them

Re: [GNC] Projecting the future

2018-08-06 Thread David Carlson
My method to predict future bank account balances is to enter scheduled transactions for all large expenditures and incomes, even if they are estimates out to between one and three months in advance. I flag these estimates with a keyword in the number field, so I can tell if I have replaced the

Re: [GNC] More Price Editor questions

2018-08-05 Thread David Carlson
Keith, I think that you have the latest version that is pre-packaged for Ubuntu 16.04. I am running the same version. There are later versions for Windows and Mac but they are not likely any better at downloading stock prices through AlphaVantage and they have other open bugs that make them

Re: [GNC] ver 3.2 Fails to Display Graphics in "Tutorial and Concepts Guide" (main help file)

2018-08-04 Thread David Carlson
Steve, Your first post had several answers. I think that whatever program displays the help file is not rendering the figures. I do not have that problem on my Windows computer. David C On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 2:54 PM, wrote: > None of the "GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide" graphics (.png

Re: [GNC] Price Tool fail

2018-08-04 Thread David Carlson
Alphavantage quotes has not been working very well lately, but I just got a few of my prices a minute ago. David C On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Keith Bellairs wrote: > Just tried to run the price tool and it reported unable to retrieve for all > of 2 but my securities. Has there been a

Re: [GNC] Hangs on startup

2018-08-04 Thread David Carlson
Finbar, Your screen grab did not come through all the way to my computer. Have you read any of the discussion here about the first start-up of release 3.2 being more slow than normal, and subsequent start-ups still being substantially slower than 2.6 21 or earlier? In Windows in particular the

Re: [GNC] Frequency of 28 Days

2018-08-02 Thread David Carlson
The Scheduled Transaction editor can be set to repeat daily or every 28 days or whatever you want. David C On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:41 AM, adb34 via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I am using this for home use. I get some of my payments every 28 days. Can > anybody give me

Re: [GNC] Closing and reopening Gnucash

2018-08-02 Thread David Carlson
Richard, Some versions of GnuCash are not able to find GnuCash data files that are in network servers or USB removable drives. There is a bug report about that. However, If your file manager program is able to mount and view the directory containing the data file, you can either double click

Re: [GNC] I just looked at Debian Testing (buster)... and GC 3.2 is finally there.

2018-07-31 Thread David Carlson
Patrick, If you have been watching this mail list you can see that even release 3.2 of GnuCash still has several bugs that are serious enough for many users to wait for more of them to be squashed before they take the plunge. Also, there are several background problems that are making it hard to

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 3.2 file open issue

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
I think that David Cousens is closing in on the problem. I have seen that GnuCash 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 cannot always see network mounted servers, but on my LAN it appears that it is important to assign the correct domain name when mounting the server with Nautilus. David Carlson On Fri, Jul

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
gt; > Thanks. I was worrying that I just wasn’t getting it. I downloaded the > software and it offers an option to change currency to sterling which I > did. It was that simple so I haven’t do e any conversions from USD. > > Thanks for your patience. > > > On 27 Jul 20

Re: [GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
> time – you’ve all been really helpful and maybe its just that gnucash won’t > do what we expect. > > From: gnucash-user gnucash.org> on behalf of David Carlson > Date: Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:19 > To: Hugh MacDonald OBE > Cc: Gnucash Users , Stan Brown < > the_sta

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 3.2 file open issue

2018-07-27 Thread David Carlson
Interesting! when running GnuCash locally in the Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop the network drive does appear in the GnuCash File>Open dialog, but when running it remotely in Windows with XMing/PuTTY via SSH the network drive is not visible in the GnuCash File>Open dialog. David C On Fri, Jul 27,

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