Also you can use the search feature to search for the lost transaction. Colin
On 2 March 2018 at 19:38, Evan Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > This will sound like a stupid response, but it’s happened to me a bunch… > > Are you 100% sure you have the date right on the transaction when you enter > it? I’ve had this happen too many times when I enter just the month/day on > a transaction, and GnuCash puts in last year’s year for some reason… causing > the new transaction to jump up off the top of the screen when I hit “Enter” > to create the transaction. Most common around the end of the year (for me), > and you say you’re coming back to the DB after time off, so it might just be > “helping” you in an incorrect fashion. > > The fact that it auto-fills when you try to re-enter it suggests that the Tx > is in your ledger somewhere. If you’ve been clearing/reconciling your > transactions, you can probably find it fast by scrolling up and looking for a > Tx in the cleared section of your ledger which says “n” in that column. > > —Evan > >> On Mar 2, 2018, at 1:26 PM, David Dutra <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I'm very much a newbie and I'd appreciate some help. I used GnuCash last >> year for our small nonprofit to keep track of income and expenses based on >> transactions through our check book. I figured out how to use it for simple >> and split transactions last year and it worked fine. I haven't used it since >> and when I tried to carry on where I left off a year ago, I encountered a >> problem. >> >> >> >> I set up a payment and split it into its two expense components - no >> problem. I hit Enter, but instead of entering that transaction and moving to >> the next line for the next entry, my transaction disappeared from view and >> all that was left was the date. However, when I began to enter it again >> beginning in the Memo column, the whole transaction reappeared with the >> correct amounts and splits. Hit Enter, and the same thing happened - line >> disappeared except for the date. Same thing happened when I clicked on the >> Enter button on the menu rather than hitting Enter on the keyboard. >> >> >> >> Not sure why I was able to figure it out a year ago, but having issues now, >> but I'm assuming I'm making some simple mistake. Can anyone help me out?? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> David >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
