Welcome to the GnuCash-user email list, Grant! On 2023-08-18 12:20, Grant Neie via gnucash-user wrote:
I have been a GnuCash user for years using various Windows devices, but have recently started using a MacBook Pro and have experienced several problems....
You don't explicitly ask for help solving these problems. Are you looking for solutions, or are you just reporting your experiences for the list's information?
In either case, with your experience using computers I'm sure you will know that some key information will help clarify your reports. What version of GnuCash did you use on Windows? What version are you using now, on MacOS? How did you transfer your data from the old computer to the new?
The initial installation did not allow personal limits of transfer choices so that I waste a lot of time scrolling through a long list unless I remember the exact choice to manually enter it. I am a simple user and have no need of the plethora of choices.
I am not sure what you mean by "transfer choices", or "personal limits" of transfer choices. Where do these transfer choices come into play? Do you mean, when you are entering a transaction, and you click in the column for the other account in the transaction, the list of possible account names which appear as a pop-up menu? If so, I would call that the "account selection list". Are you familiar with the option to type parts of the account names, and the ":" which separates account names, to winnow this list?
And, where do you recall setting limits on these transfer choices? Was it perhaps part of the preferences of the GnuCash app? In that case, finding the exact UI pane where you set these choices would help you use the terminology that will point others to the feature.
If the limits are indeed part of your personal user preferences, then maybe none of your personal preferences got migrated from your Windows computer to your Mac when you transferred your book file. If that is the case, then there is a page on the GnuCash wiki about how to migrate all of your preferences, reports, customisations, etc. from one computer to another. That information might help you.
...Secondly, the totals listed for some of the accounts in the summary window are much higher than what the actual account has for the last entry’s running total....
Another tip for getting good results from an email list like this is to limit each discussion thread to one topic. It looks like you are encountering two different problems. I suggest raising this second problem in a separate email thread, with a second (and descriptive) Subject: line.
.... Here now, I am confused as to why GnuCash programmers don’t let me keep it simple, but, like a lot of programs now, insist on loading the system down with controls that seem to be making the choices for me....
Finally, please don't blame the GnuCash programmers for trying to load your system down and to make choices for you. Believe me, they have nothing against you personally. They are volunteers, writing complex software which you are free to use without paying for it. They implement features which empower a range of users, not just you, to get a variety of work done. And, when there is complexity, there is often a path through the complexity… but it is up to us users to read the documentation and educate ourselves about how to find that path.
And, if you want software with fewer capabilities which does what you want more simply, you are welcome to make it happen. The source code of GnuCash is freely available to you. You can learn how to program that code, modify the application, and make your own variant which keeps things simple for you. Of course, modifying an application like GnuCash is hard work. Aren't we grateful to the skilled people who do that work for us, for free?
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