Re: [GNC] How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?

2023-07-23 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 23 Jul 2023, at 12:02, Fred Bone wrote: > > But aren't you supposed to record each collection separately for GASDS > purposes? What happens if the two weeks are in different tax years? Ah, I hadn’t thought about that aspect, but Chris had mentioned earlier that as his church is not a re

Re: [GNC] Another try at "How to record payments for several items paid with a single transaction?"

2023-07-24 Thread Michael Hendry
On 24 Jul 2023, at 12:05, Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:06:26AM +0100, Maf. King wrote: >> On Monday, 24 July 2023 10:38:35 BST Chris Green wrote: >>> Maybe I should put this a different way, the answers so far don't seem >>> to quite address my question, probably because I'm

Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

2023-08-07 Thread Michael Hendry
On 7 Aug 2023, at 10:46, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > > OK, lets try to get to the bottom of this. > > When I say I have had issues, I am unaware that I should not take the > suggestion of 'open anyway' unless > > I have tried several times to get an answer to why I have had th

Re: [GNC] keyboard shortcut - how to implement for open/close splits?

2023-09-12 Thread Michael Hendry
On 12 Sep 2023, at 18:17, George Riner wrote: > > I really wish there was a keyboard shortcut to open/close the Splits on the > transaction I'm in. > > Is there some edit I can make to a file somewhere in gnucash that would make > this effect? > > :George > > GnuCash Version: 4.13 > Build

[GNC] Crash report

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hendry
ash as being involved, Is this of any use to the development team? I could obviously send the whole report as an attachment if that would help. Regards, Michael Hendry - Translated Report (Full Report Below) - Proc

Re: [GNC] DOS Payroll, Inventory, A/R, A/P, and G/L program

2023-11-01 Thread Michael Hendry
On 1 Nov 2023, at 14:47, Bruce McCoy via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > On Tue, Oct 31 at 6:40 AM Michael Hendry wrote: > >I have some accounts in TAS Books which > >I created and maintained on Windows XP > > Me too. I’v

Re: [GNC] Crash report

2023-11-02 Thread Michael Hendry
On 2 Nov 2023, at 03:16, john wrote: > > Michael, > > That's enough of the crash report to figure out what's going on: It needs a > NULL check before the GTK_IS_WIDGET at > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/d617129db83b37cc12b3c2434c55e73efb4d98d6/gnucash/gnome/gnc-plugin-page-report.c

[GNC] Extract from Crash Report

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hendry
, Michael Hendry - Translated Report (Full Report Below) - Process: Gnucash [90913] Path: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version

[GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-12 Thread Michael Hendry
I have set up some accounts as Liabilities and want to change them to Income. This can’t be done by deleting the accounts and transferring the transactions to another account because only Liability Accounts are offered as alternative destinations. I would like to export the transactions to CSV,

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:48, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. > > I have the following: > > Assets:Current Assets:Currency > > And under that I have: > > Cash in Wallet > Coin Jar > Envelopes > > The latter was for an e

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 09:13, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I spoke too soon. > > It turns out that GIMP has a date picker when editing meta data. > > It also does not honor the first day of week setting in MacOS preferences. > > So this is a problem with GTK, not just GnuCash. > > The questi

Re: [GNC] Selective Export of Transactions omitting sub-accounts

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 09:36, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 13 Aug 2019, at 08:48, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> I have a somewhat detailed asset tree, but I did a test on a subset of it. >> >> I have the following: >> >> Asset

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
; > Maybe some sort of user profile corruption myself and the OP share? > > Anyone out there on Mojave with Monday working as the first day? > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Aug 13, 2019, at 3:49 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> When I bring up the date-picke

Re: [GNC] First Day of the Week

2019-08-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 17:00, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I think Christopher confirmed earlier that the Transaction Report code is not > considering locale at all. > > There’s already a bug on it from 2015: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752395 > > Though it seems at that point

[GNC] Deleting a transaction which includes a reconciled split doesn't bring up a warning

2019-08-15 Thread Michael Hendry
Income from various members of my Rotary Club at weekly meetings destined for a particular charity (say Income:CharityX) now needs to be attributed to individual members for Gift Aid tax reclamation purposes. I have set up individual accounts (Income:CharityX:Member01, Income:CharityX:Member02

[GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-23 Thread Michael Hendry
As previously mentioned on the list, I’ve just become Treasurer of our local Rotary Club, which has two sets of books, one relating to the business of running the club (annual subs, insurance, secretarial support, etc) and the other to the club’s charitable activities. The club part is straight

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-23 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 23 Aug 2019, at 14:48, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > The business features certainly offer some perks with respect to reporting, > reminders and info lookups. > > I’d probably take that approach in some fashion if I had to tackle the > problem myself. > > However, if the only reason yo

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-24 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 24 Aug 2019, at 15:41, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/23/2019 10:59 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: >> >>> For example, the price of the meals at meetings is rounded up to the >>> nearest pound, and the remainder is earmarked for “Charity Choice”. Not all >>> members attend every

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-24 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 24 Aug 2019, at 21:58, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/24/2019 11:57 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> Thanks, Mike. >> >> The club itself keeps its own financial records for running expenses etc. >> Any income arising from charitable a

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-25 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 24 Aug 2019, at 23:03, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/24/2019 5:39 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> This is for the Gift Aid claim. We have to put in an annual claim to the >> taxman, identifying each contributor and his/her total amount donated d

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-26 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 25 Aug 2019, at 15:55, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/25/2019 3:25 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > First (and an important question) >Is your organization om the cash or accrual basis? You should always state > that. Cash. > The business featur

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-26 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 03:36, doncram wrote: > > In your case, Michael Hendry, are there other persons who need or work with > some of the information? No, I’m playing in a one-man-band - which is (mostly) a good thing! > Surely then there are communication / information > sh

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-26 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 26 Aug 2019, at 17:27, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 3:43 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >>> And I see that your organization does pledges. Here in the US, pledges ARE >>> receivable,b

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 08:20, elvis wrote: > > >>> If #1 one, that is quite messy, yes, and you’ll need lots of manual >>> transactions and some sort of searchable/filterable tag system as I >>> described previously. (to avoid hundreds or thousands of accounts and >>> sub-accounts) >>> >>> But

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 09:41, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > > >> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 1:40 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >> OK, so provided I’m careful to clean up any outstanding invoices before the >> end of the financi

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 13:24, Mike or Penny Novack > wrote: > > On 8/27/2019 2:40 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> I had understood from a recent response from Mike Novack that using an >> accrual-basis system for cash-basis organisation would be wrong. > "Wron

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-27 Thread Michael Hendry
gt; that simple. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 5:30 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a way of creating regularly repeated >> invoices as Scheduled Transactions, but I’m currently th

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-08-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 22:29, elvis wrote: > >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> This is how I would do it. I'm assuming you have around 30 people to >>> account for. >>> >>> Make up all your accounts and sub accounts and sub sub accounts and cross >>> accounts. >>> >>> Have a transaction in each per

Re: [GNC] 2 Questions About Debit Cards

2019-08-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 28 Aug 2019, at 10:05, Haim Roman wrote: > > Hi. I'm new to GnuCash and to bookkeeping/accounting in general. I have 2 > questions about debit cards. > > (1) I made my debit card account a Liability account, as I did with my > credit card accounts. In the GnuCash archives, someone wrote

Re: [GNC] 2 Questions About Debit Cards

2019-08-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 28 Aug 2019, at 13:27, Gary Holtum wrote: > > First you need to fund the debit card. $ has to come from somewhere. Then you > use the debit card to purchase many different things. Ah, this isn’t the way debit cards work in the UK - we can use debit cards in the same way as we use credit c

Re: [GNC] Issue with adding transactions afterwards

2019-08-31 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 31 Aug 2019, at 10:38, Petra Pynnönen wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm doing the accounting of association and I got a small issue because > there's one transaction I forgot to add in 02.04.2019. Is there any > possibility to add it afterwards without having to alter all the transactions > a

Re: [GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

2019-09-01 Thread Michael Hendry
After looking at various ways of recording members’ individual contributions (using multiple children of Income: accounts), and examined the scope for simplifying data entry from using the Business Features, I’ve decided the answer to my question is “No”! It’s much simpler to use a spreadsheet

Re: [GNC] Non-expense, non-income transactions?

2019-09-03 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 4 Sep 2019, at 00:29, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On 9/3/2019 3:08 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote: > >> I am looking for suggestions on how to account for cash pulled from the >> checking account to be used for making change for our fund raising event >> and then redeposited into checking. > > Ro

Re: [GNC] Assign one payment to multiple invoices (from several customers)

2019-09-06 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 5 Sep 2019, at 16:07, Bat wrote: > > Hi > > this is a subject that appears regularly on the mailing list, but I can not > find fine answer neither plan to improve the situation. > > Some of my customers often pay for their invoices plus for the one of other > customer. So I get one payme

Re: [GNC] Import error on QIF file

2019-09-10 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 10 Sep 2019, at 09:46, Michael Meador wrote: > > A QIF file exported from Quicken 2017 that is the largest account (a bank > account) will not complete an import into gnucash. The last step of the > import process just says "failed" with no errors listed. The other accounts > (several)

Re: [GNC] cryptocurrency with many decimals

2019-09-13 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 13 Sep 2019, at 18:40, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am taking part in the airdrop of Stellar Lumens (XLM) in the keybase > application so I received some free XLM cryptocoins that I would like > to account with gnucash. > > The problem I have is the number of decima

Re: [GNC] A question on loans

2019-11-20 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 20 Nov 2019, at 15:24, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have a rental property, and I am just setting it up in gnu cash. The > property has an existing loan. I have paid down some of the loan, but am > still making payments. How do I set up the accounts so I reflect the > purchase price of the con

Re: [GNC] Credits

2019-12-15 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 14 Dec 2019, at 22:00, Aaron Mina wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to know how credits are used in GNUCash. I am running 2.6.19 on > Ubuntu. I have a client that I want to start off with credits. I put in a > credit while opening the new customer dialogs.I just posted an invoice

Re: [GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

2020-01-03 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 3 Jan 2020, at 01:35, Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I thought that was discussed, but delving into the bug threads and others > linked therein, I see the issue a bit more clearly. > > Certainly, I think the current underlying approach is the more sane one long > term wi

Re: [GNC] how to delete a new file

2020-01-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Jan 2020, at 21:51, Harvey Moxness wrote: > > I hope someone can help I am new to gnu/cash and trying to set up a simple > bookkeeping file, as a chequebook. When i get to the point of entering > transactions, there is no space for "balance" at the end of the entry line. > So I must

[GNC] Unreconciling a transaction causes trouble with later reconciliation

2020-01-21 Thread Michael Hendry
I’m using GC version 3.8 running on iMac with High Sierra, and have encountered the following problem: I failed to record the receipt of £40 via BACS on 9th December On 13th December I recorded the deposit of a cheque for £40 in the same account. My bank statement for the month to 16th Decemb

Re: [GNC] Unreconciling a transaction causes trouble with later reconciliation

2020-01-22 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 21 Jan 2020, at 22:26, Michael Hendry wrote: > > I’m using GC version 3.8 running on iMac with High Sierra, and have > encountered the following problem: > > > > I failed to record the receipt of £40 via BACS on 9th December > > On 13th December I record

Re: [GNC] General Ledger with Gnucash

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 11 Mar 2020, at 20:03, Adrian Yong wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > I have reading a lot of posts on this issue... > > I have been using QuickBooks for quite a while. > > I would like to generate a GL like i do in QB.. > > The GL should contain all the parent and children accounts... > > In

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] PDF Reports

2020-03-18 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 18 Mar 2020, at 03:00, David Carlson wrote: > > I added gnucash-user to the cc to distribute this to wider audience. > > I believe that if you export to pdf, then some pdf readers do split between > lines. I think Firefox is one that works ok, but it has been a while since > I tried it. >

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] PDF Reports

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
er Mac users as it stands, or for other OSes with appropriate modification. Regards, Michael #!/bin/sh # h2p.sh # # Michael Hendry # 19th March 2020 # # Convert all .html files in current directory to .pdf files in subdirectory ./pdf (created if necessary) # # Requires “htmldoc” - see https://fo

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] PDF Reports

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
open-source utility I came across. Regards, Michael > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Mar 19, 2020 w12d79, at 3:28 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> Morning, Alan. >> >> I’m currently working through a series of reports which _will_ need to be

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] PDF Reports

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 19 Mar 2020, at 15:59, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > > >> On Mar 19, 2020 w12d79, at 10:43 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >>> On 19 Mar 2020, at 13:29, Adrien Monteleone >>> wrote: >>> >>> Michael, >>>

[GNC] GnuCash 3.8 crash

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
e foot here, but I don’t think my misbehaviour should have caused a crash. Any advice? Regards, Michael Hendry Process: Gnucash [49473] Path: /Applications/Gnucash 3.8.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version:

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.8 crash

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
PS I’ve confirmed that the crash is reproducible, albeit with some differences in the crash report. When I re-opened the second file I found that the Separator Character was “das” (not blank as before). I was able to switch back to “colon” again. Michael _

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.8 crash

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 19 Mar 2020, at 18:33, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Mar 19, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> PS I’ve confirmed that the crash is reproducible, albeit with some >> differences in the crash report. >> When I re-o

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.8 crash

2020-03-19 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 19 Mar 2020, at 18:53, John Ralls wrote: > > Michael, > > Thanks, probably the same thing just a different chunk of freed memory got > overwritten so the actual crash happened in a different place. > > Regards, > John Ralls OK - any further useful action for me to take on this? Michael

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.8 crash

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 20 Mar 2020, at 00:55, John Ralls wrote: > > Michael, > > Found, fixed, and pushed. Thanks for reporting it. > > Regards, > John Ralls Thanks for your prompt attention to an issue which probably only affected me. Michael ___ gnucash-user maili

[GNC] Existing multicolumn reports pick up old versions of selected single-column reports which have been edited.

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Hendry
Scenario: Report 1: Balance Sheet 2017 Report 2: Balance Sheet 2018 Report 3: Balance Sheet 2019 Create Multicolumn Balance Sheet which includes these three reports. This behaves as expected. Edit Report 1 - let’s say to omit the links to accounts. Run Multicolumn Report again - no change in o

Re: [GNC] Existing multicolumn reports pick up old versions of selected single-column reports which have been edited.

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 20 Mar 2020, at 15:33, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > From your explanation, it appears you’re taking 3 saved configurations and > putting them into one multicolumn, correct? That’s correct - this is the “official” (as opposed to “experimental”) method. I think my original multicolumn sh

Re: [GNC] Existing multicolumn reports pick up old versions of selected single-column reports which have been edited.

2020-03-20 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 20 Mar 2020, at 17:05, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > >> On Mar 20, 2020 w12d80, at 12:01 PM, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >> >> I haven’t looked into it thoroughly, but I don’t think there is an >> equivalent “experimental” report fo

[GNC] Dipping my toes into Scheme

2020-03-23 Thread Michael Hendry
Rather than dive into Scheme programming with a completely new report, I’d like to try editing an existing report to provide a little customisation. I’m looking at the experimental report balsheet-pnl.scm by Christopher Lam, which I found here on my Mac… /Applications/Gnucash 3.8.app/Contents/

Re: [GNC] Dipping my toes into Scheme

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 24 Mar 2020, at 01:20, Christopher Lam wrote: > > This may indicate a Mac .app issue -- maybe it doesn't like being modified. > For that matter it may be much safer to play on a Linux VM and downloading > the sources instead. > Alternatively try the config-user.scm method on > https://wik

Re: [GNC] Dipping my toes into Scheme

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 24 Mar 2020, at 21:56, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sicklylife/gnucash Thanks, Stephen. I now have 3.8 up and running in my Ubuntu 18.04 VM, and can experiment without fear. Regards, Michael ___ gnucash-user mailin

Re: [GNC] Dipping my toes into Scheme

2020-03-24 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 24 Mar 2020, at 21:36, Bruce Irving via gnucash-user > wrote: > > GnuCash Users > Subject: Re: [GNC] Dipping my toes into Scheme > Message-ID: <98fb916d-1962-40f5-96db-7a7154da3...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > >> I have an Ubuntu 18.04 VM on my Mac, but the mo

Re: [GNC] Cycle between basic, autosplit, transaction views?

2020-03-29 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Mar 2020, at 18:42, david whiting wrote: > > ViewStyleBasicAction On my Mac the relevant file is in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash. The term “Primary” on a Mac is the key, as opposed to the key, so the effect on the relevant menu is: If the image doesn’t come through, try:

Re: [GNC] Build ID: 3.3+ (2018-09-29) can't unvoid transactions

2020-05-04 Thread Michael Hendry
On 4 May 2020, at 06:17, Gene Selkov wrote: > > Hello, > > After a botched csv import, I have a bunch of empty transactions that are > marked read-only. I can't delete them; the explanation is that they have > been voided. I tried the Unvoid Transaction menu on one of them, with > no success. It

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Hendry
On 15 Apr 2024, at 01:45, Oleander via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs&Maintenance? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account so that my "Hou

Re: [GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

2024-05-26 Thread Michael Hendry
Hi, Michael, We’ve corresponded about this in the past. I was keen to keep track of restricted funds within GC in a way which would make unspent restricted income persist as restricted funds beyond the year end, and you suggested the use of a Liability account for this purpose, Unfortunately,

[GNC] Crash Report

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
report if that would be useful. Regards, Michael Hendry Process: Gnucash [48185] Path: /Applications/Gnucash 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash Identifier:org.gnucash.Gnucash Version: 5.5-1 (5.5-1) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent

Re: [GNC] Crash Report

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
plenty of other things I can find to do in the meantime on this fine sunny day in Scotland. Michael > On 23 Jun 2024, at 08:19, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Here are the first few lines of a crash report that came up this morning as I > was reconciling a credit card account. I’m not

[GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Hendry
Further to my recent crash report: Start to reconcile a bank account. Edit a pension payment during reconciliation because the regular payment has gone up Open the Scheduled Transaction editor and adjust for new payment. Go on with the reconciliation until the next pension increase prompts the

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-03 Thread Michael Hendry
Are you closing the Scheduled Transaction Editor tab between uses or just > clicking different SXes to edit? While I’m able to edit two SXes at once it > doesn’t seem from your description that that’s what you’re doing. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Jun 23, 2024, a

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
at I’ll be > able to figure it out and fix it. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Aug 3, 2024, at 06:04, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Sorry, John, >> >> I failed to follow-through on this because of family illness. I did get as >> far as taking

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
but bad practice by 1999 when > Tom quit working on it. Too bad nobody’s given it the thorough overhaul it > needs. Even so modern OS design makes it pretty unlikely that it could cause > another program, never mind macOS, to crash. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >>

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
nabled, that could be why your system rebooted itself. > MacOS gets security updates every 2 months and will reboot to fully install > them. The last few came out in March, May and July. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 8/5/24 11:41 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> Thanks, John

Re: [GNC] Consistent way to hang Gnucash

2024-08-05 Thread Michael Hendry
llege of General Practitioners journal, and picked up two early and readily-treatable cancers in that 100. Perhaps we should take this conversation off the GnuCash List? Regards, Michael > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Aug 5, 2024, at 12:29, Michael Hendry

Re: [GNC] Detailed Search

2024-09-07 Thread Michael Hendry
I’m Treasurer of a Rotary Club, which keeps its books on a cash basis - so can’t use the business features necessary for invoicing. (For this reason, I have to ask members NOT to pay by electronic means before the 1st July - early payments by cash and cheque can hit the books on or after the 1st

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

2018-12-19 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 19 Dec 2018, at 13:29, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 19 december 2018 12:29:05 CET schreef Michael Hendry: >> Here is a screen-shot to demonstrate the problem: >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmde3eqphnhabp6/Screenshot%202018-12-19%2011.22.14 >&g

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

2018-12-19 Thread Michael Hendry
> > Thanks, Geert (and Victor and David). > > Now I know that it’s not a matter of my failing to spot an option within > Gnucash, I’ll go for the “print-to-pdf” feature on my iMac - it’s a single > step as opposed to HTML->PDF. > > Michael > > Well, that would have worked if Gnucash hadn’t

Re: [GNC] new to gnucash

2019-01-05 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 5 Jan 2019, at 16:41, Mike Kerstetter wrote: > > Hello all. I'm brand new to gnucash. I want it to do just the basics of > keeping a register and reconciliation of a couple bank and credit card > accounts. I had Money Sunset Deluxe and currently have Quicken (which is now > charging a yea

[GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Michael Hendry
I have been contentedly using Gnucash since 2010, initially on Ubuntu but more recently on iMac, and although I have no problems with the version I’m using it’s probably time I upgraded. I have a few questions: 1. Will 2.6.16 still run on the Mac when the withdrawal of support for 32-bit softw

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-28 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 28 Jan 2019, at 16:15, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:47 AM, Adrien Monteleone >> wrote: >> >> A developer could chime in but my recollection from when this arose last >> year or so is, “no.” If it were critical to run a 32-bit version, you’ll >> need a VM running an

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Hendry
Progress notes on upgrade: I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg this morning and dragged-and-dropped Gnucash.app into my Applications folder after renaming the earlier version. The verification failed when I tried to run the App. I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg also, and went through t

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Jan 2019, at 16:54, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Progress notes on upgrade: > > I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg this morning and dragged-and-dropped > Gnucash.app into my Applications folder after renaming the earlier version. > > The verification failed

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Jan 2019, at 17:45, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 29, 2019, at 9:08 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 29 Jan 2019, at 16:54, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>> Progress notes on upgrade: >>> >>> I downloaded

Re: [GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

2019-01-30 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 29 Jan 2019, at 18:50, John Ralls wrote: > > I just uploaded a new Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg to both SourceForge and > Github with a re-signed app. It validates successfully for me but I got a > different spctl error from Michael's. > > I've also updated the SHA-256 (which changed anyway

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

2019-02-06 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 3 Feb 2019, at 14:59, Jamestk wrote: > > Ira me again, this seems to be happening on v3.4 > > Changes made by ticking entries are no longer saved after opting to > postpone, anyone else noticed this? A slightly different (but perhaps connected?) reconciliation problem happened to me yes

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

2019-02-07 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 7 Feb 2019, at 17:22, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 7, 2019, at 12:52 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 07:37, Michael Hendry >> wrote: >> >>>> On 3 Feb 2019, at 14:59, Jamestk wrote: >>>> >&g

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 08:38, Colin Law wrote: > > On a Mac is it possible to open a second instance of GC while one is > still running? Yes, but opening the second instance brings up the lock file warning, and this is the first time I’ve seen that warning in many weeks. It usually happens afte

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: > > I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the > save process. Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it > possible that you failed to wait for it to finish saving? > > David T. That’s what I was imply

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: >> >> I know that on my Mac, it takes some time for gnucash to actually finish the >> save process. Mine is a somewhat older macbook pro with an SSD. Is it >>

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 15:42, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: >>>> >

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 15:42, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:02, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 09:25, David T. wrote: >>>> >

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 17:26, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 15:31, Michael Hendry >> wrote:> ... >>> | => ls -lt >>> total 84324 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 m

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 23:54, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> Actually, the first file was modified on 8th Feb at 00:01, followed by the >> lock file at 00:03. >> >> The MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6

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

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 23:48, John Ralls wrote: > >> >> Is it up to me to initiate this? > > It works best if you do, but if you prefer not to I'll do it for you with the > information in this thread. > > Regards, > John Ralls I think you would express the problem more coherently than I. But I

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

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 17:37, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> PS Looking at the log files, I’m reminded that a number of scheduled >> transactions took place during the session. Inspecting these it seem

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

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 9 Feb 2019, at 11:20, Michael Hendry wrote: > >> On 8 Feb 2019, at 17:37, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >>> >>> PS Looking at the log files, I’m reminded that a number of

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

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Hendry
I’ve been experimenting with the timing of Gnucash->Quit after clicking Save. There is an activity indicator after Save is clicked, which disappears when the mouse is moved away from the Save button, which makes it look as though the process is complete. If Gnucash->Quit is clicked promptly aft

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

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 9 Feb 2019, at 23:16, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> I’ve been experimenting with the timing of Gnucash->Quit after clicking Save. >> >> There is an activity indicator after Save is cl

[GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

2019-02-10 Thread Michael Hendry
On starting GC this morning, I got this message: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0pw5bs11od7cpm/Screenshot%202019-02-10%2008.49.03.png?dl=0 It seems to say that there are no Scheduled Transactions to deal with today, then that two have been created. There appears to be no action for me to take, so I

Re: [GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

2019-02-10 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 10 Feb 2019, at 08:53, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On starting GC this morning, I got this message: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0pw5bs11od7cpm/Screenshot%202019-02-10%2008.49.03.png?dl=0 > > It seems to say that there are no Scheduled Transactions to deal with to

Re: [GNC] Using 4.3 on Mac - contradictory notification message on startup

2019-02-10 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 10 Feb 2019, at 09:39, Colin Law wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 08:56, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> On starting GC this morning, I got this message: >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0pw5bs11od7cpm/Screenshot%202019-02-10%2008.49.03.png?dl=0 >>

[GNC] Version 3.4 Mac OS - intermittent fault with transaction editing popup

2019-02-11 Thread Michael Hendry
This came to my notice when trying to examine a number of Split Transactions. I selected the first transaction and right-clicked to bring up the menu, but when I clicked Split Transaction nothing happened. I tried one or two other transactions, and sometimes the popup menu options work and some

Re: [GNC] Version 3.4 Mac OS - intermittent fault with transaction editing popup

2019-02-11 Thread Michael Hendry
> On 11 Feb 2019, at 15:07, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Feb 11, 2019, at 3:27 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >> >> This came to my notice when trying to examine a number of Split Transactions. >> >> I selected the first transaction and right-clicked to

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