Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
And if you stack bunch of thermal papered receipts together, they weather out a lot faster than in months. -Original Message- From: sunfis...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2024 4:44 AM To: dewaj Cc: sunfish62--- via gnucash-user Subject: Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If you are on desktop version of MS Outlook then you can save single message as a .msg file and link that. Just keep in mind you will need MS Outlook to open those .msg files though... -Original Message- From: Stephen M. Butler Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2024 3:37 PM To: gnucash-use

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
w.uschamber.com/co/start/strategy/how-long-to-keep-business-documents' -Original Message- From: Stephen M. Butler Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2024 3:15 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records? On 11/6/24 11:38, Kalpesh Patel wr

Re: [GNC] File Cabinet, 3-Ring Binders, Paper Records?

2024-11-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Making digital copies into cloud, albeit in a foggy one, is a lot easier than sending paper copies to Iron Mountain for safe keeping. Then there is cost of keeping digital copies vs physical copies. Most vendors -- at least credit cards, banking and investment houses -- provide digital copies of

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-11-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
out 30 transactions, and in the end it took less time than the amount of time I spent working on the Export/Input technique. Once again, Thanks On 2024-10-31 8:13 a.m., Kalpesh Patel wrote: > With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to > experiment something wi

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I remember something like that from many moons ago. Specifically it had to do with vacuum tubes and mechanical relays, rather than transistors, and early computers were room sized ones when that term came to be in the computer world's fold. Somewhat nebulous meaning similar to that was supposedly u

Re: [GNC] Stocks with prices in more than one currency

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
While I don't know the full background on your situation, something is not adding up right. If the setup for your book is correct then the exchange rate between two currencies should reconcile the report to correct value for the Advance Portfolio and the Current Value for it. -Original Mess

Re: [GNC] Showing account totals as of today

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Not sure if this was mentioned or not but in COA windows, you can add additional "Total" columns that has different types of total amount. Selection is made by clicking the down arrow at the end of the heading line (the one that has the text "Account Name" in it) and putting a check mark by clic

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to experiment something within the account. In that case, it is rather going to be best by making a copy of the file somewhere else. Then restore it back if you don’t like the result after the experiment or experiment with the

Re: [GNC] How do I do a backup of Gnucash?

2024-10-21 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Here is a link to YouTube video to setup the built-in backup on Windows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3iAiAqMtvg While the demo is shown performed on Windows 11, it is good for backing up on MS Windows 7 and up. -Original Message- From: halatch1008 Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 202

Re: [GNC] Australian Stock Exchange Module in Finance::Quote

2024-10-21 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Sadly, manual labor ... -Original Message- From: Ernie Wakamatsu Sent: Monday, October 21, 2024 12:17 AM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: John Ralls ; sunfish62--- via gnucash-user Subject: Re: [GNC] Australian Stock Exchange Module in Finance::Quote Hi All So, what are the options for those

Re: [GNC] Australian Stock Exchange Module in Finance::Quote

2024-10-20 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I looked at it and sadly the tech that they are using requires client side java script side processing. I couldn't find a java script interpreter that lived strictly within Perl so would have to tie into virtual browser (like Selenium framework) launched from Perl but that dependencies are a no go

Re: [GNC] Set up a security, what now?

2024-10-17 Thread Kalpesh Patel
H I thought the namespace was just a free format text that wasn't tied to anything for commodity pricing other than a nice way to tidy up commodities into groups. I must have misunderstood its purpose ... if it is indeed tied up like that then the source of pricing dictates the name se

Re: [GNC] What files in my in my business folder need to be backed up?

2024-10-15 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Ah, at minimum have another full copy of the operational hard drive lying around 😊, which implies backing up everything. Windows provides a free tool for backing up an image of the running machine on a scheduled basis as well as files & folders backup, and good old "dd" (disk duplicate) command

Re: [GNC] To whoever explained the 4% safe withdrawal rule - thank you

2024-10-08 Thread Kalpesh Patel
While I am not a financial professional, I would also think that the popular 4% withdrawal rule is not for everyone. Everyone should look at financial picture in totality as investments and social security (or pension) benefits are just a small piece of that pie as you need to consider your sp

Re: [GNC] Newbie trouble deleting transaction

2024-10-08 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Also be careful in that if you have any future dated transaction in the register then "blank transaction" won't be the last transaction if sorted by date (View --> Sort By ...) . Best way to tell if it is "blank transaction" that you cannot delete is to close that register and then reopen it f

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize

2024-10-08 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Just as a side note in case it did not bubble up: for currencies the source cannot be changed from within GNC. There are documented workarounds by setting env vars. In most cases it is not necessary to deploy the workaround. -Original Message- From: Kalpesh Patel Sent: Monday, October

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize

2024-10-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
It really depends upon which source you will be using to get the pricing for your commodities. F::Q is collection of difference sources contributed by member which GNC relies to retrieve pricing information. Out of those some require API key and some don't. You specify the source to use in the s

Re: [GNC] Newbie trouble deleting transaction

2024-10-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Telltale sign of such a “blank transaction” is that it will have today's date filled-in -- and no other columns -- for the entire transaction when you look at it in the register. -Original Message- From: John Ralls Sent: Monday, October 07, 2024 10:39 AM To: Paul-A Cc: gnucash-user@gn

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Setting up commodity and maintaining by updating its value is considered a normal user activity in GNC ... whether it is your cup of tea or not that is different story. -Original Message- From: Boniforti Flavio Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 2:24 AM To: R Losey Cc: gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I don’t think GNC cares who "owns" it. I would think that it is not any different than you owned share(s) of say IBM or Facebook or Google. Technically purchase of share(s) gets you a partial ownership proportionate to total outstanding in that corporation - it is immaterial to GNC whether it is

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
is always fine manual for it to read. With GNC, you can create temp book (files) to learn and then delete them so that you can start afresh again until you get it correct. From: Boniforti Flavio Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 2:23 AM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Reconcile accounts out of monthly sequence

2024-09-25 Thread Kalpesh Patel
But you don't have to reconcile it one month at a time. You can reconcile all in once from the opening the account until some date (including as of today if desired) in one shot if you know the opening balance and the closing balance as of closing date. -Original Message- From: John Ralls

Re: [GNC] Owning stocks which are not publicly quoted - which account type suits better?

2024-09-24 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If you want to track it properly then you would want to set it up as a "stock" and all of the workflows, such as setting up the security, that goes with it. This will then flow correctly into your report, like advance portfolio, if you ever wanted to generate them. What makes you believe it sho

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation question

2024-09-23 Thread Kalpesh Patel
: Monday, September 23, 2024 12:54 PM To: Kalpesh Patel Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation question Thank you Patel. This leads to the next question: why am I not able to click "Finish" when doing this? I do know that I have other credit card transactions which have not yet been recon

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation question

2024-09-23 Thread Kalpesh Patel
You should use the closing date (which might be the billing date) for reconciliation. Your credit card statement should have date range for which the bill is applicable. Last day of that range is the closing date. -Original Message- From: Boniforti Flavio Sent: Monday, September 23, 20

Re: [GNC] Import from Quicken to GnuCash not Working

2024-09-23 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Once you have gone through below mentioned reply, you might want to review my prior posts on it at https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/msg40455.html which is likely to provide good pointers for migration. -Original Message- From: Keld Sorensen Sent: Monday, Septembe

Re: [GNC] Database storage

2024-09-19 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Anyone remembers Commodore PET and C64? 64MB or less of core and of course big whopping modern 3.5 inch 1.44MB floppy drives? load "asteroid",8,1 -Original Message- From: Roberts K Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2024 3:18 PM To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote started multiplying prices by 100

2024-09-19 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Looks like that change took place in Version 1.58 Release back on Aug 12, 2023 where '.X' denotes scaling in effect for alphavantage. See https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/releases/tag/v1.58 As a side note, Alphavantage has really tighten up ability to pull free quotes from their A

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-12 Thread Kalpesh Patel
PasswordSafe can support Yubikey's authenticators if you want a really good local password manager. It is Open Sourced but for Windows OS only though ... -Original Message- From: David Cousens Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2024 4:41 PM To: stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com; gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-12 Thread Kalpesh Patel
"Well, yes, that's inevitable, otherwise how could your password be checked! :-)" -- modern algorithms does away with storing anything that in one fashion or another stands in for the password. Conceptually store a known pattern that has been encrypted by using an algorithm that takes the key

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-11 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Technology has advanced since UNIX's /etc/passwd came into existence (in nineteen sixties?). There are newer algorithms that have replaced that are far superior to it and even though /etc/passwd is there, it is just a place holder in most part and the actual password from it not used, but undern

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
It is not true that password on a zip is very weak. It really depends on the type of algorithm you have selected to encrypt it with when you password protect it. While I am in agreement that GnuCash is a financial tool, not a security tool, I don't think security should be overlooked. To be hon

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
, 2024 4:09 PM To: Kalpesh Patel ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server? I'll need to take a closer look at CryptSync. I did go and install syncthing and am synchronizing GnuCash files for my family, m

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
One of the thing about encrypted virtual drive is that you have to declare its size when you create it for most packages which limits what you can do with it. It creates number of profound issues: It will contain un-used space which will take up space if it hosted in one of the foggy cloud's dr

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
IMHO, that is probably asking too much from a person that has never put a foot in the software development world. Let's keep the "customers" in mind as to who they are. While I completely agree that SQL backend does have many benefits, if one was dive in without understanding it, it is more li

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-08 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If your data is valuable enough to protect it, which goes without saying for financial (or any?) data, with a backup then don’t "plug in a USB drive" in back of your router and store it there! Those USB port(s) are great for sharing multi-function printers... and that’s about it! The security o

Re: [GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

2024-09-08 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If you are paranoid about cloud provider snooping into your files and folders when storing data in the cloud, please look into excellent open source tool called CryptSync (https://tools.stefankueng.com/CryptSync.html) which I have mentioned it in the past. It works as advertised so far. I do no

Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift?

2024-09-05 Thread Kalpesh Patel
: Kalpesh Patel Cc: Gyle McCollam ; David Warren ; Boniforti Flavio ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift? Certainly, but you are missing the "other things" that your salary is paying -- such as insurance, perhaps? savings? taxes? I don't know

Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift?

2024-09-03 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Couldn't one can elect to track paycheck by net rather than gross? -Original Message- From: Gyle McCollam Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2024 3:27 PM To: David Warren ; Boniforti Flavio Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] [newbie] how to treat a gift? Don't forget on the payc

Re: [GNC] Investments - I want to play too! (figuring out money into holding account, purchase bond or stock index fund out of holding fund)

2024-09-03 Thread Kalpesh Patel
You should use SPAXX as if it was just another security, like mutual fund or stock -- technically those brokerage do not hold cold cash in the brokerage account, but rather deal with money market "fund", so you sell SPAXX at $1/share to convert into cash and buy them at $1/share when you deposit

Re: [GNC] Report stock price history

2024-09-03 Thread Kalpesh Patel
nday, September 02, 2024 2:23 AM To: 'R Losey' ; 'David Houlden' ; Kalpesh Patel Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Report stock price history you can use price scatterplot select Reports > Assets & Liabilities > Price Scatterplot Now select op

Re: [GNC] Report stock price history

2024-09-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Is there any way for the price scale to start at zero? -Original Message- From: Christopher Lam Sent: Monday, September 02, 2024 10:37 AM To: David Houlden Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Report stock price history On Mon, 2 Sept 2024 at 21:36, David Houlden wrote: >

Re: [GNC] Report stock price history

2024-09-01 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I wished "Sample Graphs" from the "Example" would have allowed you to select an account but it doesn't ☹. Then you could have used Trading --> --> security to display the graph of the pricing graph. -Original Message- From: R Losey Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2024 12:46 PM To: David

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation "Postpone" does not work

2024-08-29 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Does that mean cancelling the reconciliation and postponing behaves same? If you need to make edits to transactions then cancelling seems better option rather than postponing one. I feel like postponing leaves too many items dangling in case you forget to complete it. -Original Message--

Re: [GNC] Rounding issues with Stock

2024-08-27 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Also for the account, check the 'Smallest Fraction' setting and adjust as necessary by first selecting the account and then clicking the 'Edit' button in the ribbon at the top which should show you all of the setting available for the account. While you are add it, you may want to check the 'Fra

Re: [GNC] Rounding issues with Stock

2024-08-27 Thread Kalpesh Patel
When you are entering the transaction, if you just provide the total shares ('Shares' column) and total amount ('Buy' or 'Sell' column) for the transaction and leaving Price blank will permit GNC to calculate the price per share which should be very close. -Original Message- From: NS

Re: [GNC] Get Quotes hung

2024-08-23 Thread Kalpesh Patel
control… From: Fred Tydeman Sent: Friday, August 23, 2024 3:11 PM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: R Losey ; Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Get Quotes hung It appears to depend upon where one is in the world. Last week in Medellin, Colombia, it took hours on a fast internet connection. Today, in

Re: [GNC] Get Quotes hung

2024-08-21 Thread Kalpesh Patel
badly enough and might need a fresh install. What version of GNUCash, and on which type and version of OS are running on? From: Fred Tydeman Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 7:08 PM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: R Losey ; Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Get Quotes hung On Wed, Aug

Re: [GNC] Get Quotes hung

2024-08-21 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I am not seeing such delays and completes in about a minute. I do see failures now and then and that has all to do with Yahoo performing maintenance on their systems and is transient in nature. Silly question I'll ask: did you verify that all those stocks are getting data from Yahoo and Yahoo o

Re: [GNC] Importing to Gnucash

2024-07-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
When you are at the 'Import Preview' window/step, you can click on the arrow pointing downward next to label of each column which will expand to all available assignments that can be done for that column. You can select from that drop down list. Each column is individually controlled so that you

Re: [GNC] CSV Importer - Debit vs Credit

2024-07-05 Thread Kalpesh Patel
: Thursday, July 04, 2024 1:17 PM To: 'Kalpesh Patel' ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] CSV Importer - Debit vs Credit I can easily write a little Python thingie and put it in my right-click menu, but it's just an added annoyance in this increasingly annoying world.

Re: [GNC] CSV Importer - Debit vs Credit

2024-07-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
ied how it imports, you can save that as a template to use it next time in the future so you don't have to figure it out again. -Original Message- From: Kalpesh Patel Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2024 12:59 PM To: 'Paul Kroitor' ; 'gnucash-user@gnucash.org' Subject: RE: [

Re: [GNC] CSV Importer - Debit vs Credit

2024-07-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Sadly, you will have to do some pre-processing before import. Put minus sign in front of debits or credits, depending upon how the book is setup. GNUCash does not have a conditional way of importing data in CSV by looking at a column. CSV files can be edited in any text editor. -Original Messa

Re: [GNC] Can I have two GnuCash releases installed in Windows 11

2024-07-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I don't think two different version of GNUCash can exist on Windows machine (install of new version will uninstall the previously installed one). However, there is nothing that precludes you from going back one minor version if you needed to. In that case, you just simply uninstall the latest ve

Re: [GNC] Problem with Online Quotes/Price Database

2024-06-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
; Kalpesh Patel ; sba...@gmail.com; cho...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GNC] Problem with Online Quotes/Price Database I use the simple way on Windows. Go To the Start Menu and the Gnucash folder under "G" within it - click on "Install Online Price Retrieval for Gnucash", let it d

Re: [GNC] Problem with Online Quotes/Price Database

2024-06-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
It is very likely that when you uninstalled Strawberry Perl, it also uninstalled Finance::Quote library which is needed to download quotes. At a Windows' CMD (Command line) console, you should be able to installed it. Instructions are as follows: 1) At the command prompt execute following to brin

Re: [GNC] Delete acct + move txns - can't specify acct

2024-06-03 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Is there any reason why not just simply rename account and then re-parent the account to where you actually want the transaction to show in the account list rather than delete the account and move the transactions during delete? -Original Message- From: Mark at Lorimark Sent: Monday,

Re: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash

2024-05-22 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Ah, go to the contra cash account for the transaction and do it over there... thanks for that tip! -- Original Message -- Received: Sun, 19 May 2024 05:38:58 PM EDT From: Fred Tydeman To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash > By m

Re: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash

2024-05-19 Thread Kalpesh Patel
That is the behavior, sadly, where it goes back to what the original transaction was. It is undesired but it is there and not likely to be fixed.. (I run into it when I want to duplicate the transaction and then just update the quantity) To get around, you technically have to enter the entire t

Re: [GNC] Question about OFX imports

2024-05-13 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I do see a good reason to do so, at least in my use case. I am imagining case where if I were to download good number of transfers transactions (I do so for last three months in a moving window fashion through CSV, QIF and OFX imports), I could end up needing to touch many other accounts, pos

Re: [GNC] Stomped with interface between GNC (v4.18) and F::Q (v1.61_02)

2024-05-10 Thread Kalpesh Patel
That was it. Rounding down to 9 decimal places works. Thank you! -Original Message- From: John Ralls Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2024 10:13 PM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: GnuCash User Subject: Re: [GNC] Stomped with interface between GNC (v4.18) and F::Q (v1.61_02) Kalpesh, I think your

Re: [GNC] Update on financequote?

2024-05-10 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Your query seems to be garbled up but from what I make out from it: yes, F::Q works fine as of v1.61_03 release if that is what you are asking. -Original Message- From: interesse Sent: Friday, May 10, 2024 7:29 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] Update on financequote? Hell

Re: [GNC] Importing historical stock prices to GnuCash in Windows

2024-05-10 Thread Kalpesh Patel
You may want to look at https://github.com/ka-patel/dl_quotes/tree/main/yfinance which is Python based... -Original Message- From: sunfis...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, May 10, 2024 2:59 AM To: Leung Wing Cheong Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Importing historical stock pr

[GNC] Stomped with interface between GNC (v4.18) and F::Q (v1.61_02)

2024-05-08 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Hi GNC User community - I am developing a second F::Q module of my own. The first one works fine but second one seems to NOT want to work no matter what. I am in middle of debugging it and it has stomped me why not so hoping someone might be able to help me zero in where I am falling sort on th

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-03 Thread Kalpesh Patel
My bad here ... since working with Perl 5.005 ... -- Original Message -- Received: Fri, 03 May 2024 02:37:19 PM EDT From: "Kalpesh Patel" To: Bruce Schuck , GnuCash User Cc: Kalpesh Patel , Fred Tydeman Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03 > Hi Bruce, >

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-03 Thread Kalpesh Patel
FallbackPrereqs. Might be worth adding to it... -- Original Message -- Received: Fri, 03 May 2024 11:30:22 AM EDT From: Bruce Schuck To: GnuCash User Cc: Kalpesh Patel , Fred Tydeman Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03 > On May 2, 2024 at 23:44:53 EDT Kalpesh wro

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
. From: Fred Tydeman Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2024 11:40 AM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: Bruce Schuck ; GnuCash User Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03 make depend fails (as there is no 'depend' target in the makefile). On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 6:16 AM Kal

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If you are installing it into the system installed perl, which most likely you are doing so with a su switch user utility, then correct way to do so would be to: # sudo su - # cd # make depend # make # make test # make install # make clean (space and then followed by a dash is important on the

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

2024-05-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
"Gets nothing on my linux." sounds like those modules have not been initialized as your system is NOT running in an "island" configuration since sudo make install works. This might possibly be an outbound firewall issue although if wget and/or curl works then not. Run following: perl -MCPAN -e

Re: [GNC] Identify error transaction in QIF import

2024-04-28 Thread Kalpesh Patel
While this is not specific to the problem at hand (which others have provided work around - namely fall back to GNC 5.5 which likely is to have better success), given that I went through the migration while back (circa GNC v4.3) to import data since at least 1993, these are the lessons I've lear

Re: [GNC] Any bank that still functions well with AqBanking? Does Paypal?

2024-04-23 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Bryan - GNC does not have extensive of online download capabilities as Quicken does; rightfully so -- that is what Quicken provides in return for purchasing a license for, and that is what Quicken already offers and does well. Most of us, if not all, who came over from Quicken world that wanted

[GNC] F::Q Dependencies list

2024-04-20 Thread Kalpesh Patel
In case you are interested in seeing what packages are needed for F::Q, go to this site.. https://cpandeps.grinnz.com/?dist=Finance-Quote &dist_version=&phase=runtime&perl_version=v5.

Re: [GNC] GNC] Finance-Quote 1.60 released!

2024-04-18 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I was able to reproduce the issue in Frankfurt so it definitely is "geo" based issue; specifically EU countries. Attached is a drop in replacement YahooJSON.pm module that works with EU and other regions if anyone wants to use it before new package is released that incorporates these changes.

Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.60 released!

2024-04-18 Thread Kalpesh Patel
am.grif...@gmail.com; Kalpesh Patel Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.60 released! On 4/17/24 11:57 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > You can also save cookies to a file named cookies.txt as follows: > #curl -c cookies.txt https://login.yahoo.com -I > and then following to display 11 char

Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.60 released!

2024-04-17 Thread Kalpesh Patel
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Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.60 released!

2024-04-17 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Richard, Is this happening on Windows 10 with Strawberry perl? There is one other user is having problem getting secure cookies on Windows 10 which is what this appears to be as well. It is related to some Perl's SSL package being broken or not installed correctly but haven't been able to pin

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-04-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I have always wondered why two are not in sync... -Original Message- From: Bruce Schuck Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 6:14 PM To: David Reiser ; Fross, Michael Cc: david amaral ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again? On 4/14/24 3:02 PM, Da

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-04-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Verbose; not terse ... 😊 gnucash-cli.exe --verbose -Q dump yahoo_json aapl -Original Message- From: David Reiser Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 6:02 PM To: Fross, Michael Cc: david amaral ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org; Bruce Schuck Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails ag

Re: [GNC] Finance::quote YahooJSON

2024-04-13 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I am currently using modified YahooJSON.pm module for my needs and seems to be working from the States. It is pulling data so far. Head over to https://github.com/ka-patel/dl_quotes/blob/main/FinanceQuote/YahooJSON.pm if you are interested in its early release before Bruce can do his vetting and

Re: [GNC] Finance::quote YahooJSON

2024-04-11 Thread Kalpesh Patel
You may want to review my personal project at https://github.com/ka-patel/dl_quotes ... -Original Message- From: Geoff Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2024 7:57 AM To: fromvendor ; 'GnuCash User eMail List' Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::quote YahooJSON > Is there a way to import data to the

Re: [GNC] Split Transactions Version 5.6

2024-04-11 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Just to add some distinction, if you are coming from Intuit's Quicken world then its split is not same as GNC's split ... the way I think is, split happens when "one" side of the transaction in double entry is broken down into multiple segments -- example: going out to a restaurant with a frien

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-10 Thread Kalpesh Patel
" WOULD honor the check " -- that is the price to be paid because of automation where date, whether hand written out or otherwise, cannot be deciphered correctly 100% of the time by the check processing equipment and its OCR, but the check number is in MICR line which is decipherable by all chec

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
would think that this “floats” would be a liability account… From: R Losey Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2024 12:44 PM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date) I thought "floating a check" means that one issues a check, knowing

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
In the states, isn't that what is called "floats"? -Original Message- From: Liz Sent: Monday, April 08, 2024 6:50 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date) On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:11:37 -0500 R Losey wrote: > Since I first learned about recording t

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

2024-04-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
... to the point of auto backup taking place at a set frequency by setting it up ... that is in: Edit --> Preferences --> General: Auto-save time interval -Original Message- From: Geoff Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2024 6:21 AM To: Dave parker ; Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE:

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-04-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Not sure if anyone answered it or not but really it is a moving target in terms you have to match up which source provides which quotes. Internet is always moving and these data sourcer/aggregator always update along with it as they add/modify/remove what they offer... no one offers entire unive

Re: [GNC] Imported Transactions Show as Cleared

2024-04-02 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Which format are you exporting as? Not sure which column you are seeing but this is the order I see when I import using CSV importer: Date Amount Description Memo A U+C C Info Additional Comments Out of those, if there is a tick mark in "A" column then the transaction will be added as a new; a

Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?

2024-03-27 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Looking at "ERROR 429: Too Many Requests." I am guessing that they are throttling your queries because number of requests from IP address you have exceeds what they believe to be a normal person browsing would be making... -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett Sent: Wednesday, Mar

Re: [GNC] gnucash suggestions

2024-03-20 Thread Kalpesh Patel
y format) and adjusting rest of the attributes accordingly. As the painting appreciates, it can be tracked in price database. I am sure there is better way to do so, so comments and/or suggestion are welcome… From: David Warren Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 4:58 PM To: Kalpesh Patel

Re: [GNC] gnucash suggestions

2024-03-19 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Just in case this is lost or not known, a new namespace can be created by simply specifying text in the namespace field when defining a "new" commodity or security. Existing commodity or security can be shuffled or put under a new namespace by editing the security and simply typing in new string

Re: [GNC] Help

2024-03-18 Thread Kalpesh Patel
gnucash.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. gnucash suggestions (J. A. Harris) > 2. Re: UNSUBCRIBE and Lemmy.World (Kalpesh Patel) 3. Re:

Re: [GNC] UNSUBCRIBE and Lemmy.World

2024-03-17 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If the e-mail client is configured via IMAP access to email server, then whatever email is deleted on your client is also removed from your server so you don't need to clean up multiple times... IMAP keeps "one" view for all of the email clients that access those emails. My outlook client is co

Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

2024-03-12 Thread Kalpesh Patel
ink I answered it already but in case it isn't correct, how should one track its daily Exchange rate since Currencies namespace is not mutable? -Original Message- From: john Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2024 10:35 AM To: Kalpesh Patel Cc: Adrien Monteleone ; Damon Hudac ;

Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

2024-03-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
abase But XAU no longer works with Alphavantage at least. GC=F (SI=F for silver) works fine. Regards, Adrien On 3/7/24 10:50 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: > Oh! > > XAU symbol is indeed named Gold in Currencies name space which seems > ... ___ gnucas

Re: [GNC] Bill total does not match real total

2024-03-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I remember EBCDIC being used heavily during mid '80's on Fortran punch cards... -Original Message- From: Fred Tydeman Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2024 10:08 AM To: stepbystepf...@comcast.net Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Bill total does not match real total Actually, DFP

Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

2024-03-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Oh! XAU symbol is indeed named Gold in Currencies name space which seems ... -Original Message- From: Kalpesh Patel Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2024 11:44 AM To: 'Damon Hudac' Cc: 'gnucash-user@gnucash.org' Subject: RE: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Pri

Re: [GNC] Error Retrieving Gold Price for Price Database

2024-03-07 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I don't believe GNC by default contains Gold in the currency namespace. It is likely added. For Yahoo purposes thus yahoo_json, XAU or Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index is an index at Nasdaq so query would require caret ('^') prefix so the symbol is '^XAU' (without quotes). For Gold spot prices,

Re: [GNC] Yahoo json unauthorized

2024-03-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Is your F::Q up to date? Last version released is 1.59. Version can be displayed by navigating to 'Help' --> 'About' window. It should say "Finance::Quote x.xx" somewhere in the middle of the window. What ever number is x.xx is the version of the installed F::Q. It also could be that it is a tr

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If are you going from HTML to PDF then that sounds like the method employed by that converter and not GNC itself. Once you run the report, if you look at the top of the report window, there is 'Make PDF' button/icon (at least I see it on Windows version of it). Pressing that should save it as a tr

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