Hello, Can GNU Cash be controlled by 2 computers? I have an XP computer and a Windows 10 computer and it would be great if somehow I can make the XP computer see the Windows 10 computer GNU file. This way 2 people could create invoices at the same time, maybe?
Sent from cell phone On Feb 9, 2018 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please (Wm) > 2. Re: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff > Combined into a Single Share (Wm) > 3. Latest version for Windows? (cicko) > 4. Re: Price Retrieval Failure, Part 2 (John Ralls) > 5. Re: Latest version for Windows? (John Ralls) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 20:50:40 +0000 > From: Wm <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 07/02/2018 18:17, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > Go to Preferences > General > Numbers. You can increase your decimal > > precision. Did that solve the small fraction issue? > > That isn't a good way to go if your base currency is a 2 decimal one. > Creating a commodity with the appropriate number of decimals and using > that is better. > > By chance there is another more recent but simpler thread > > === > Subject: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff Combined > into a Single Share > === > > it is the same basic problem. "put the other leg in equity" doesn't > work for me and the variance is actually the value not the price which > is what makes them different to traded investments which gnc deals with > well as you can just put the the date and price in for market traded things. > > > As for modeling the investment, I?m not familiar with p2x. I?ll let someone > > else chime in who is. > > > > On that note, I tried looking it up but didn?t come up with anything useful > > explaining it. Do you have a few info links I could pour over? Once I > > understand what it is, I might be able to help modeling it in Gnucash. > > > > The only related thing I found was Peer-to-Peer lending but that didn?t > > involve negative interest rates as far as I could tell. > > peer to peer is now p2x in common terms because the second peer is no > longer an individual in most cases and almost all lending goes through > an intermediary. very few actual p2p transactions happen. > > the lending can now involve: personal loans (how it started), mortgages, > agriculture loans, 3rd world specific investments, invoice factoring, > business loans, pawnbroking, etc and possibly some other stuff you and I > probably don't want to know about or get involved in :) I stick to > reliable exchanges. > > Perhaps I should have left out the word "interest" if it is confusing. > A non zero return occurs if you buy an interest bearing instrument at > anything other than par. You are buying someone else's interest (a > premium) or getting some of their interest because they don't want the > risk of the principle (a discount). There are loads of other reasons > for buying and selling, of course. > > The point is interest and other returns are *traded* and I'm not finding > it obvious how to do this in gnc as part of a composite tx. > > gnc likes simple investment returns > > one leg asset receiving > one leg income to balance > third leg asset to join them up > > or similar. > > Maybe I should change the way I work so that I produce 3 tx per month > > asset change > income > and the one gnc wants > > I'm certain my tx is right in accounting terms but somehow it isn't > being "seen" by gnc for what it is. > > Anyway, it has been useful to me to explain so no harm done. Who knows > I may wake up with the answer tomorrow, I am certainly closer in my own > mind. > > -- > Wm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:17:49 +0000 > From: Wm <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff > Combined into a Single Share > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 08/02/2018 14:28, David Carlson wrote: > > If you want to create a fictional stock and manually enter prices from time > > to time that is easy. > > > > Just use the security editor and invent a name and symbol, possibly under > > the group called Fund. Do not set an online quote source. Then manually > > use the price editor to enter prices for whatever dates you like. > > I think you'll find it is the value that alters not the supposed price > which is probably a nominal 1 for the OP. > > gnc deals well with the price changes but not so well with value changes. > > -- > Wm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 06:57:37 -0700 (MST) > From: cicko <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Latest version for Windows? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I find a bit confusing as to where to find the latest version for Windows. > The maintainance releases are apparently going out but somehow I can't > figure out what the flow is. > > The main www.gnucash.org page points to > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.19-1.setup.exe > which does not exist. > > The Installation page simply points to the Windows directory on SourceForge. > The Stable version there is > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download > which looks like the first 2.6.19 version? > However, on the same page there is a hash > 1fa83d9578e8c62bd7dcef3b953e0e7610bf03bed9c1a037a72a6eee1ac79e37 > gnucash-2.6.19-3.setup.exe > which refers to 2.6.19-3 version for Windows(!). > > And, finally, Windows wiki page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows) > points to > https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ > which shows what I believe are the weekly maintenance builds, based on the > info in their names and the description on the wiki page. > > So, if I want to get the *latest stable version* for Windows, which one > should I use? > Thanks! > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 07:33:39 -0800 > From: John Ralls <[email protected]> > To: "David T." <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Price Retrieval Failure, Part 2 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > GnuCash on the Mac doesn?t install anything. You drag the bundle to wherever > you like, and you can have as many as you like. If you want to try a ?fresh > installation? (shouldn?t make any difference, nothing in the bundle should > change with use) just open up the dmg and drag Gnucash.app somewhere else. > > The variables in the environment file are overridden by those variables being > set in the launcher script (Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash). In 2.7.4 and > later there is no launcher script and the code that writes the environment > file is changed to use paths relative to {GNC_HOME}. > > You?re right that GnuCash shouldn?t be overwriting files in GNC_DOT_DIR. I?ll > have a look at that. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Feb 8, 2018, at 9:14 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In reply to my own message, in the interest of trying to run a fresh > > installation of GnuCash, I logged in to a different (new) Mac user account > > and replicated the test there. In other words, I opened GnuCash and created > > a simple file with AAPL and tried to retrieve prices. I receive the same > > error. > > > > Because GnuCash on the Mac installs the application bundle at the system > > level, the environment file there is still invoked (a check in that account > > confirms that this file is accessible in the new account), so I wonder > > whether there is something going on there that causes my problem. > > > > I don?t know whether this is a problem, but digging through the enviroment > > file yields two variables with John?s folder structures: > > > > GNC_DBD_DIR=/Users/john/Development/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-2.6-Leopard/inst/lib/dbd > > XDG_DATA_DIRS=/Users/john/Development/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-2.6-Leopard/inst/share;{XDG_DATA_DIRS};/usr/local/share;/usr/share > > > > These should be removed, or scrubbed to be generically valid. > > > > At this point, I am at a loss for how to proceed. > > > > I would try for a ?clean slate,? but I would have thought that downloading > > and installing the newer version would have done that. Since I have been > > using GnuCash so long, and have sporadically attempted to contribute to the > > project, my machine has numerous development tools (git, SourceTree, etc.) > > and GnuCash content (gnucash-docs, gnucash-htdocs) installed; I imagine I > > could delete all of that as well, and try from there. Given how much > > trouble it has been for me to get these development technologies to work, I > > am loathe to take this step, however. > > > > Geert mentioned that the Alphavantage settings will be incorporated into > > 3.0; when is that slated for release? Is the feature active on 2.7.4?and > > should I try using that (*he shudders*)? > > > > David > > > >> On Feb 9, 2018, at 9:40 AM, David T. via gnucash-user > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Unfortunately, adding these lines to my config.user did not result in any > >> further information. I am stumped, and disappointed. > >> > >> <aside> > >> It seems that an upgrade of GnuCash not only tanks one?s customized > >> environment file in the application bundle (understandable), but also any > >> additional files that a user might have put into the DOT_GNUCASH_DIR > >> folder?like, custom scheme reports, or a config.user file that a user > >> might have created in vain attempts to get said custom reports to load > >> into their personal installation of GnuCash. I find this circumstance to > >> be rather troubling, as the files that a user has put into this folder > >> should not be summarily sent to the executioner by the next version of the > >> application. This is especially troubling given that the authorized > >> methods for creating and using custom scheme reports (as convoluted and > >> sensitive as they are) specifically directs such reports to be placed into > >> this folder. If *I* were to have written a custom report for GnuCash (as > >> opposed to simply copying someone else?s work to my own system) I would be > >> pretty ticked off to find my work discarded this way. Thank g > oodness I had backups, but really, one shouldn?t have to restore from a > backup on this. > >> </aside> > >> > >> I have now created a simple file to test out price retrieval. I put one > >> stock account that uses AAPL, a cash account and Equity, and created a > >> simple buy transaction (to create one price entry). For me, this file > >> fails in the same way. I attach it here, so that someone else can test it. > >> If it works for you, then there is something about my Mac that F::Q > >> doesn?t like. And then I am really up the creek, because it?s a big > >> operating system out there? > >> > >> David > >> > >> <TestAlpha.gnucash> > >> > >>> On Feb 8, 2018, at 11:40 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> David, > >>> > >>> You can put the attached config.user file in your DOT_GNUCASH_DIR ($HOME/ > >>> Library/Application Support/Gnucash) > >>> > >>> If you then start gnucash from the command line, it should print out the > >>> value > >>> of your API key there, together with the version of Finance::Quote that > >>> got > >>> installed. Unless the OS X edition doesn't print this early boot > >>> information... > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Geert<config.user> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 07:41:52 -0800 > From: John Ralls <[email protected]> > To: cicko <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Latest version for Windows? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > > On Feb 9, 2018, at 5:57 AM, cicko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I find a bit confusing as to where to find the latest version for Windows. > > The maintainance releases are apparently going out but somehow I can't > > figure out what the flow is. > > > > The main www.gnucash.org page points to > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.19-1.setup.exe > > which does not exist. > > > > The Installation page simply points to the Windows directory on SourceForge. > > The Stable version there is > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download > > which looks like the first 2.6.19 version? > > However, on the same page there is a hash > > 1fa83d9578e8c62bd7dcef3b953e0e7610bf03bed9c1a037a72a6eee1ac79e37 > > gnucash-2.6.19-3.setup.exe > > which refers to 2.6.19-3 version for Windows(!). > > > > And, finally, Windows wiki page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows) > > points to > > https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ > > which shows what I believe are the weekly maintenance builds, based on the > > info in their names and the description on the wiki page. > > > > So, if I want to get the *latest stable version* for Windows, which one > > should I use? > > You should use > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download > > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download> > or > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe > > <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe> > > (They?re the same file; Github lacks SourceForge?s annoying advertising). > > And I?ll get the mess of wrong pointers and names cleaned up. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > ------------------------------ > > End of gnucash-user Digest, Vol 179, Issue 32 > ********************************************* _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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