Re: [GNC] Easier way to print to PDF

2024-05-20 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
PDF pitfall: some apps print a graphical file, which cannot be searched, and some print text with annotations to set position and font size, name, bold, italic, underlined, which can be searched.  You can even find apps to convert the first to the second!  My presbytery sends out the first,

Re: [GNC] Simultaneous access

2024-05-16 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Yes, if gnucash was running as a remote service, it might be able to deal with multiple users.  Imagine that gnucash becomes a web service and the user interface is a relatively simple web page.  Even in this scenario, you would need to avoid processing too much in JavaScript and local files

Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.61 released!

2024-04-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Flatpak? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this

Re: [GNC] Finance-Quote 1.60 released!

2024-04-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Will there be a flatpak release?  No hurry, as yahoo fetching is still off the rails.  So many web pages one can scrape the price off of! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] FYI Web tables, CSV, prices info and inquiry

2024-04-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
. On Apr 12, 2024, at 10:02 PM, "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user" wrote: Not all users know that the nice table of your stocks and prices that you see on so many web sites like my morningstar portfolio can be selected and pasted into a spreadsheet like Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreO

[GNC] FYI Web tables, CSV, prices info and inquiry

2024-04-12 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Not all users know that the nice table of your stocks and prices that you see on so many web sites like my morningstar portfolio can be selected and pasted into a spreadsheet like Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice Calc, maybe not perfectly, but so it is easy to turn them into a clean

Re: [GNC] Finance::quote YahooJSON

2024-04-11 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Yes, off the rails again: Found Finance::Quote version 1.59. * 23:45:21  WARN [GncQuotesImpl::parse_one_quote()] Skipped NYSE:VZ - Finance::Quote returned fetch failure.Reason Error retrieving quote for VZ. Attempt to fetch the URL

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

2024-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
That's a lot of crontab weirdness for a cosmetic bug of bad code or bad install, on top of the flatpak weirdness.  Maybe either there should be some command line option to direct Finance::Quotes to the right or unusual mechanisms, or Finance::Quotes should just check and move on silently,

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

2024-04-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
The quotes were fetched despite these usual errors, so it is only a cosmetic error. On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 09:27:11 PM EDT, Bruce Schuck wrote: On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, David G. Pickett wrote: > Ran OK for me last night, 28 seconds, but running too often seems to > create errors:

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

2024-04-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
as to yahoo limits On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 10:03:26 AM GMT-7, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: My personal portfolio has 26-28 stocks (I recently closed 2 positions) (Diversity has it's virtues, and while IRSs are free choice, different 401Ks have different restricted

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

2024-04-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
My personal portfolio has 26-28 stocks (I recently closed 2 positions) (Diversity has it's virtues, and while IRSs are free choice, different 401Ks have different restricted choices.)  When it is in a mood to block, it seems to block them all, not just the last few. On Wednesday, April 3,

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

2024-04-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
the JSON-Parse problem. Please give it a try. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 2, 2024, at 08:54, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I tried timing all for a common NYSE stock VZ but they seemed all slow or > failed, so I asked others what worked for them. > >

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

2024-04-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I tried timing all for a common NYSE stock VZ but they seemed all slow or failed, so I asked others what worked for them. Now I am on a broken flatpak dist of Finance Quote 1.59 (flatpak stuff runs in an alternate universe, and even though 1.58 had json, 1.59 fails for the lack of perl json

Re: [GNC] Linux, Gnucash

2024-04-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Best ask the group! On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 05:06:39 PM EDT, James Baxter wrote: Sir,As I am not complaining or crying. To start with. I am using Linux Mint. I am not get my questions answered. I am looking to get Gnucash working with stock/tickers working. I have my doc, and

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

2024-04-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4 LTS. On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 01:10:17 PM EDT, David G. Pickett wrote: On my batch job it says: Price retrieval failed: Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: missing_modules JSON::Parse On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 01:07:16 PM EDT, David G. Pickett

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

2024-04-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
On my batch job it says: Price retrieval failed: Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: missing_modules JSON::Parse On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 01:07:16 PM EDT, David G. Pickett wrote: I eagerly installed it but in the Security editor Edit screen it says Finance Quote is not

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

2024-04-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I eagerly installed it but in the Security editor Edit screen it says Finance Quote is not installed properly, and the Get Quotes of the Price screen is dimmed out. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

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

2024-03-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Yes, but as I went to flatpak to get a later release, it is discouraging that it fails to get updated for newer releases of Finance Quote and for all I can tell, newer GnuCash.  Maybe they update the GnuCash but ignore the Finance Quote update? On Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 10:57:00 PM

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

2024-03-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
and currencies). On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:59 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:  So anyone care to recommend a source setting for quotes that works? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences

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

2024-03-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
So anyone care to recommend a source setting for quotes that works? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please

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

2024-03-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Here is more info on the problem, as a publicly available Google drive URL to a plain text file: wget.txt | | | | wget.txt | | | On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 12:44:02 PM EDT, David G. Pickett wrote: Fred, Sorry, but the mail handler makes trash out of carefully

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

2024-03-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Fred, Sorry, but the mail handler makes trash out of carefully formatted and informative text.  I do not know why it hates the noble new line character?  I'd send attachments but they probably get removed, but maybe I can send Google Drive URLs to files?  On Ubuntu bugs, I can go to the web

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

2024-03-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com On Mar 26, 2024, at 00:18, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: PS: New error tonight: Found Finance::Quote version 1.58.* 23:59:55 ERROR [parse_quotesource_error()] Unrecognized Finance::Quote Error Can't use string ("18.590101") as a HASH ref whi

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

2024-03-25 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
HTTP response 500 (Internal Server Error)* 00:07:56  WARN [GncQuotesImpl::parse_one_quote()] Skipped FUND:WFILX - Finance::Quote returned fetch failure. On Monday, March 25, 2024 at 03:20:24 AM EDT, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi David, Am 25.03.24 um 05:13 schrieb David G. Pi

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

2024-03-25 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
 isodate => 2024-03-25      symbol => vz      volume => 14582800        open => 40.53    currency => USD         low => 40.48 real 258.87user 2.44sys 0.21 za =Finance::Quote reported a failure for symbol vz: Search failed: Failed to find vz at /app/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.3

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

2024-03-25 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
flatpak run --command=sh org.gnucash.GnuCash gnucash-cli --quotes info/app/bin/gnucash-cli: /app/bin/gnucash-cli: cannot execute binary file On Monday, March 25, 2024 at 03:20:24 AM EDT, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi David, Am 25.03.24 um 05:13 schrieb David G. Pickett via gnucash

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

2024-03-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
gnc-fq-dump's functionality has been replaced with gnucash-cli -Q dump [ ...] Regards, Geert Op zaterdag 23 maart 2024 20:40:43 CET schreef David G. Pickett via gnucash-user: > Version: 5.5Build ID: Flathub 5.5Finance::Quote: 1.58 > Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (all the latest updates

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

2024-03-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
cli -Q dump [ ...] Regards, Geert Op zaterdag 23 maart 2024 20:40:43 CET schreef David G. Pickett via gnucash-user: > Version: 5.5Build ID: Flathub 5.5Finance::Quote: 1.58 > Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (all the latest updates from flatpak, snap, Software > Updater, Software). &

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

2024-03-24 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
rch 24, 2024 at 08:00:59 AM EDT, Geert Janssens wrote: gnc-fq-dump's functionality has been replaced with gnucash-cli -Q dump [ ...] Regards, Geert Op zaterdag 23 maart 2024 20:40:43 CET schreef David G. Pickett via gnucash-user: > Version: 5.5Build ID: Flathub 5.5Finance:

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

2024-03-23 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Version: 5.5Build ID: Flathub 5.5Finance::Quote: 1.58 Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (all the latest updates from flatpak, snap, Software Updater, Software). Apparently the Usage is a bit off, or that script is not being distributed by flatpak: $ (cd

[GNC] Finance Quotes Yahho of the rails again?

2024-03-22 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Verizon, A are still traded? Found Finance::Quote version 1.58.* 00:49:23  WARN [GncQuotesImpl::parse_one_quote()] Skipped NYSE:VZ - Finance::Quote returned fetch failure.Reason Error retrieving quote for VZ. Attempt to fetch the URL

Re: [GNC] gnucash suggestions

2024-03-18 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I think sort order should be a selection on any table-flavored report.  For instance, I prefer the portfolio report to be symbol sorted for ease of comparison with online positions, but it is account sorted. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Separating tax years for payments in next year

2024-03-09 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I recently created ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalEven and ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalOdd to allow me to get a meaningful report on estimated tax and various tax withholding.  The payments in Jan 2024 for 2023 estimated and later for 2-23 tax due do n

[GNC] Separating tax years for payments in next year

2024-03-08 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I recently created ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalEven and ExpenseAccounts/Taxes/FederalOdd to allow me to get a meaningful report on estimated tax and various tax withholding.  The payments in Jan 2024 for 2023 estimated and later for 2-23 tax due do not clutter the reports on 2024 tax year,

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

2024-03-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
You might export as CSV and print it from excel, Google Sheets, libreOffice Sheets or as a spreadsheet into table in a word processing document. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

[GNC] Minor silliness bugs

2024-02-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I run the latest gnucash from flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux.  When I launch gnucash from my taskbar of favorites, it sends a notification to my top central bar menu that it is ready, when it is only ready to display a splash, and many additional seconds must elapse before all the XML is

Re: [GNC] Enhancement: Future sched txn update if updated template.

2024-01-18 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
11 or 12 sx templates, why not have one that fires monthly? Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. ---- Original message ---- From: "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user" Date: 1/16/24 6:18 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] Enhancement: Future sched txn u

Re: [GNC] Enhancement: Future sched txn update if updated template.

2024-01-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
templates, why not have one that fires monthly? Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user" Date: 1/16/24 6:18 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] Enhancement: Future sched txn update if updated te

[GNC] Enhancement: Future sched txn update if updated template.

2024-01-16 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I schedule my periodic transactions a year in advance, but with constant inflation, often the amount goes up.  It'd be nice to have a way to, by interactive option after I update the template, have gnucash update the already generated future transactions to match an updated template

Re: [GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

2024-01-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Being a Linux GNUCash personal finance user, not doing electronic imports of anything but stock prices, I have found it to be relatively stable using the flatpak updates, which are far more current than the apt updates.  More aggressive users, and those on other platforms, may have more

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote upgrade

2023-12-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I run Ubuntu 22.04 and used flatpack to install: Version: 5.4Build ID: Flathub 5.4.1Finance::Quote: 1.58 $ flatpak --helpUsage:  flatpak [OPTION…] COMMAND Builtin Commands: Manage installed applications and runtimes  install                Install an application or runtime  update               

Re: [GNC] Enhancement suggestion

2023-12-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
o? On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:27 PM Glenn Fowler wrote: Hi that is expected behavior with xml, have you tried the database format? On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:05 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > One problem with gnucash is inadvertently u

Re: [GNC] Enhancement suggestion

2023-12-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
wrote: Hi that is expected behavior with xml, have you tried the database format? On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:05 PM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > One problem with gnucash is inadvertently uncommitted modified > transactions.  It's be nice if th

[GNC] Enhancement suggestion

2023-11-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
One problem with gnucash is inadvertently uncommitted modified transactions.  It's be nice if the tab lit up if that account included such, so I can commit it before wandering off.  If the system is rebooted or gnucash is killed for batch stock price updates, these modifications are lost, even

Re: [GNC] Bad date not caught

2023-10-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
String to date parsers provide a way to tell if the entire string was not digested, see 'man strptime' that says it returns a pointer to where it stopped, should be at the end of the string. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

[GNC] Inventory

2023-09-12 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Does GNUCash do inventory at least on a small scale?  It seems like a security or stock, you could define a price for sales or a recent/current cost for supplies, and when you sell or order it might be like a stock sale or order. ___ gnucash-user

[GNC] GnuCash autofill headaches

2023-06-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Maybe, suggestion, move the leading matches to the top of the list and the others below, maybe even sorted by match start column, and then by value.  Thus it works like as old if you type enough leading and hit tab or click on it. ___ gnucash-user

[GNC] Stuck on old quotes version

2023-06-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
What do I need to do to rise above 1.5301 ?  I may have some residue of old app deb install as well as flatpak to get later versions of gnucash. dgp@dgp-p6803w:~$ flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes infoFound Finance::Quote version 1.5301.Finance::Quote sources:aex     

Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

2023-06-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Now if only the digest email back was a readable as and, unmodified from, the email out? -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Wed, May 31, 2023 3:00 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails Quick tutorial on OS file name extensions

Re: [GNC] gunzip test.gnucash fails

2023-05-31 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Quick tutorial on OS file name extensions (suffixes) and file type: While '.gz' tells your OS it needs to go to gunzip to be uncompressed into a file without the '.gz', gunzip does not care about the name.  To bypass the OS extension association, you can force the input and output file names

Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

2023-05-29 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of David G. Pickett via gnucash-user Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 4:42 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage I have seen it fumble, too, not sure if it is FQ or AA.  Funds do their nav some time after 4 eastern, so I do my

Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

2023-05-27 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
: gnucash-user On Behalf Of David G. Pickett via gnucash-user Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 4:42 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage I have seen it fumble, too, not sure if it is FQ or AA.  Funds do their nav some time after 4 eastern, so I do my quotes

Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

2023-05-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I see last night it missed all my funds, so I am running it again.  That worked!  Maybe I will add another run to make sure!  9:15? -Original Message- From: David G. Pickett To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Fri, May 26, 2023 4:42 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

2023-05-26 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I have seen it fumble, too, not sure if it is FQ or AA.  Funds do their nav some time after 4 eastern, so I do my quotes on cron at midnight.  This also means the 6 minute run time is not a problem.  But silently lost quotes seems like a bad behavior.  Does the code log when the price fetch

Re: [GNC] Finance:Quote again [sorry]

2023-05-13 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
You seem to get to choose either Alphadvantage, which turns slow after a few stocks, or Yahoo v6, where we wonder how long before Yahoo discovers the v6 URL bypasses their v7 authentication and they stop servicing it. ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-11 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
An alternative proposal is to create data elements to allow auto-saving of both the modified and unmodified transaction of uncommitted changes, so if the file is reloaded, the uncommitted state is restored as it was at the time of the save.  Then auto save would ensure these uncommitted

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-08 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
crontab. -Original Message- From: David T. To: David G. Pickett Cc: David G. Pickett via gnucash-user Sent: Sun, May 7, 2023 11:34 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save? Nope and nope. Sorry. It seems to me that leaving GnuCash open and running a con job against the open

Re: [GNC] Yahoo JSON - throwing unauthorized error

2023-05-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I have previously posted my mystery regarding why I am stuck 1.5301 even after downloading and installing later versions!  I went to flatpak to get later releases than the Ubuntu base.  I guess I can start doing uninstall hacks using synaptics!  If it is not broke -Original

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
. David T. On May 6, 2023, at 9:02 PM, "David G. Pickett via gnucash-user" wrote: "Don't do that!" does not prevent data loss from human error, which for this app behavior is too easy to create and not realize. If the commit was automatic every time you modified a transaction

Re: [GNC] Yahoo JSON - throwing unauthorized error

2023-05-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
PS: I give up on Yahoo! Switching all my securities to Alphadvantage was tiresome, as the gui was no responsive to the keyboard, but I found the source could be found using page up.  Some display at the security editor main screen or somewhere would help to see which is running quotes where,

Re: [GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
"Don't do that!" does not prevent data loss from human error, which for this app behavior is too easy to create and not realize. If the commit was automatic every time you modified a transaction when the new state was valid, then I would not leave the tab in an uncommitted state, but that is

Re: [GNC] Yahoo JSON - throwing unauthorized error

2023-05-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Yeah, it's back.   - Is Yahoo aware of their server rejects?   - Is there some magic cookie or such we need to be authorized?  Many previous fixes proposed, which did not seem to prevent its return! ___ gnucash-user mailing list

[GNC] Auto commit with auto save?

2023-05-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I often accidentally leave a transaction complete but with the cursor of that sheet still on the same line, so despite an aggressive auto save setting, such a transaction is not committed to the saved image.  Of course, if it is not in valid form, it cannot be committed!  But if the host goes

Re: [GNC] Changes to transaction entry, and quirks

2023-05-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I miss the old entry of transaction account, as it had fewer keystrokes/clicks to get the average desired entry. I have it set to the leaf value mode, which itself is a mixed deal since sometimes I am not sure what the full path is, but it fits better (takes less column width).

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-14 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Stopped working again just that quick: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get -- /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not exist in filesystem, trying to use abstract socket instead. ** (process:164114): WARNING **:

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-11 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Maybe patch the code to load a junk string in there "Enter_your_key_here" and suppress the warning? -Original Message- From: Bruce Schuck To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Cc: rlo...@gmail.com; geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be; m.muruganan...@hotmail.com; hell...@gmail.com; dgpick...@aol.com

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-09 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
currency quotes are requested and only then emit a warning for a missing AlphaVantage API key. That would be an enhancement request for you to file though. Regards, Geert Op zondag 9 april 2023 01:50:55 CEST schreef David G. Pickett via gnucash-user:> I have no currency rate quotes, just

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-08 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Alphavantage is required for currency rates Saludos Cordiales Murugan From: gnucash-user on behalf of David G. Pickett via gnucash-user Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:41 PM To: hell...@gmail.com Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
> Sent: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 3:45 pm> >> Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed> >> > >> And you'll see there's a whole other thread on this -> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106181.html.> >> Bug

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
r 5, 2023 3:45 pm> >> Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed> >> > >> And you'll see there's a whole other thread on this -> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106181.html.> >> Bug report at https://bugs.gnuc

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
/106181.html. >> Bug report at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798815 >> >> If you include a namespace parameter for now it will work. >> >> Cheers David H. >> >> On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 23:00, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user < >> gnucas

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
/show_bug.cgi?id=798815 If you include a namespace parameter for now it will work. Cheers David H. On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 23:00, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I can still only update quotes with the interactive button, the flatpak run gnucash command that ran in 4.* is still broken

Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106181.html.  Bug report at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798815 If you include a namespace parameter for now it will work. Cheers David H. On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 23:00, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: I can still only update

[GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

2023-04-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I can still only update quotes with the interactive button, the flatpak run gnucash command that ran in 4.* is still broken: dgp@dgp-p6803w:~$ flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashMissing data file parameter gnucash-cli

Re: [GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8

2023-03-31 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Sent: Fri, Mar 31, 2023 12:51 pm > Subject: Re: [GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8 > > > >> On Mar 31, 2023, at 9:32 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user >> wrote: >> >> Nice to see the get quotes button come to lif

Re: [GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8

2023-03-31 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8 > On Mar 31, 2023, at 9:32 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Nice to see the get quotes button come to life in 5.0-1, but my cron script > still blows up: > > flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnu

Re: [GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8

2023-03-31 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Nice to see the get quotes button come to life in 5.0-1, but my cron script still blows up: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucasherror: app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/master not installed

[GNC] No 5.0 Quotes fix, went back to 4.8

2023-03-30 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As the month end approaches, and 5.0 cannot see my Quotes setup, I did a flatpak uninstall and an Ubuntu Software install, going back to 4.8, and voila, my Quotes work again. Let me know if you ever release a 5.? that can pick up a good Quotes install from 4.?, so I can return to what seems

Re: [GNC] Problems with Finance::Quote and GnuCash Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25)

2023-03-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Poking aroun more, I see in Edit Security DIA it says "Warning: Finance Quote is not installed properly.". Checking my cron job log, it says: flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not

Re: [GNC] Problems with Finance::Quote and GnuCash Version: 5.0 Build ID: 5.0+(2023-03-25)

2023-03-28 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I see since it updated to 5.0 the quotes are not coming in from my daily cron and the get quotes button is grayed out, so you broke something.  Any concrete suggestions on specific actions on how to reactivate this, which was running fine in 4.13 ?

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

2023-03-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I we can pop to 900, we can pop to 100.  -Original Message- From: aeg To: David G. Pickett Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 3:29 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers David, I like your idea, as its logical sequencing would obviously be clearer, but as

Re: [GNC] Confusing version numbers

2023-03-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
It is, generally a military style numbering, so the '.' is not a decimal point, more a tab, not an alphanumeric sort but a numeric sort.  One AT project started their order numbers at 100,000,000 so they were always 9 digits with 900M headroom.  Maybe we could make the first revision after 4 as

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2023-01-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
r machine, there is a warning that the LCK file is present. (I don't know if that was what you intended to ask, but I have done this a couple of times by accident). On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:10 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: If open on multiple machines, does gnuCash notice save on one machi

Re: [GNC] Scary moment

2023-01-02 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
If open on multiple machines, does gnuCash notice save on one machine in open session on other machine, as many apps do when the local copy is updated ?   Should it? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Is it safe to use Greek, Chinese etc characters

2022-12-21 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Also be careful to copy, but not transcribe, as the Cyrillic alphabet has an 'а' that looks very like the Roman 'a' in most font choices, to the delight of many hackers! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] GNUcash is using 538MB

2022-12-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
If we are talking disk space, my personal finances and lots of daily stock quotes for several years fit into a gnucash file of 2.8MB, but in my dir I have 239MB of 92 files accumulated for this quarter, each a full snapshot of one moment.  This is gzip'd xml, not any RDBMS flavored version.  If

Re: [GNC] GNUcash is using 538MB

2022-12-17 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
People get excited about this all the time, sadly!  RAM usage is more a developer concern.  Modern OS use virtual memory, so the RAM is redistributed based on usage.  A page of RAM (usually 4,096 bytes) may be true virtual memory, where modified pages are backed up in a swap file, or it may

Re: [GNC] URGENT: Fake gnucash website with fake download,

2022-12-11 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Even riskier is clicking a link with a Cyrillic a (thanks unicode utf8), looks great and very wrong.  Don't go by eye.  Use a trusted bookmark?  Use gnucash.org?  host names are case insensitive. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] Stock spinoff

2022-12-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I usually Google search out the OCC Memo on the split or spinoff, as it does a precise analysis of the basis.  (OCC Options Clearing Corp manages stock option contracts traded on Options markets). ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

[GNC] Obsolete library warning

2022-10-21 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
My weekly update check find this warning!  Will gnucash move to a different library? dgp@dgp-p6803w:~$ flatpak update -yLooking for updates…Info: org.gnome.Platform//41 is end-of-life, with reason:   The GNOME 41 runtime is no longer supported as of September 17, 2022. Please ask your

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote v1.53 RC1 Available for Download

2022-10-01 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I have the flatpak install on Ubuntu, and 1.49 was fine, but better is the enemy of good enough.  I downloaded and extracted, but was not sure how to install.  I googled up  https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/finance-quote-install.html and 

[GNC] Price update works but complains a lot

2022-09-09 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I update prices nightly from Yahoo as JSON with a cron job, and it logs an ugly error or two as it does its work, successfully.  Any suggestions? flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does

Re: [GNC] Currency quotes stopped

2022-09-03 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
I noticed Yahoo stopped carrying the price of gold as XAUUSD=X, so I guess any symbol on any service can disappear, it is just odd for it to disappear for currency or gold or metal.  Of course, they have to get it from someone else, so they have little control.  You might be able to find a new

Re: [GNC] How to bulk import about 130 Securities entries?

2022-08-16 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As xml is text, and xml storage is used in my gnucash, one might add securities by running the *.gnucash through gunzip, add in the text, and run it back through gzip, unless there is a nasty checksum in there somewhere?  Keep a copy of the original! I pulled this from my file using shell

[GNC] Morningstar dumping free services, free quotes might be under attack?

2022-06-25 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
As I looked at my publicly traded portfolio today on Morningstar, they told me they are dropping the free basic services.  It's a sad trend after so many years. I am worried we might lose some of our gnuCash free quote servers.  Of course, gnuCash perl quotes itself can only be modified by

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-08 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
fixed in the repo. Testing those nightlies is of course welcome and encouraged, but you should do it with a copy of your book or a test book.  Regards,John Ralls On Apr 7, 2022, at 4:56 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Which one, flatpak offers 1000+ GNUCash options

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-07 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
h/issues/24 > > Maybe it will be fixed in a future release of flatpak. > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:04 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I suppose there is a way for flatpak to remove it and reinstall it. > > If you need to reinstall gnucash,

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
should be handled by the GnuCash 4.10 flatpak release. The canberra-gtk-module noise is harmless, and documented in  https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3521. Regards,John Ralls On Apr 5, 2022, at 7:33 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: Despite all the errors/warnings, much better

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-05 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Sounds a lot like https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798486 except that it's supposedly fixed in the 4.10 flatpak. Does running GnuCash like  WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCashmake any difference? Regards,John Ralls On Apr 4, 2022, at 2:57 PM, David G. Pickett v

Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart

2022-04-04 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] 4,10 Defective Net Worth Line Chart > On Apr 2, 2022, at 9:52 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS > > -Original Message- > From: David G. Pickett > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Sent: Sat, Apr 2, 2022 1

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