David T If you had met a certain grandchild of mine you would understand banana s and hot dogs.
David C On Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 6:47 AM David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It looks as if Art has entered descriptive information into an account > field. GnuCash will always ask if you want to create the nonexistent > account (that’s a feature, BTW). Based on the sample string, you’d need to > tab out of the account after “bananas”, put “Hot dog” in a memo > (presumably), and the calculation into the amount field. Although, why > you’d put hot dogs in an account for bananas is beyond me. > > David T. > > > On Jun 13, 2018, at 10:07 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Here is a tip. When that (...) does not exist ... prompt appears, if you > > do not know which transaction triggered it, click on the red x button to > > close the file. this will bring up a prompt asking if you want to save > > your changes to a certain named window, which may be an account name or > > search results, for example. This will help you find the offending > > transaction. Once you have the offending transaction in focus, delete > all > > the characters in the account field. then you will get a chance to exit > the > > transaction abandoning all changes. Now you can save the file and > continue > > entering data or close the file. > > > > David C > > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Art via gnucash-user < > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > >> I must've hit the wrong button somewhere because I keep getting this > >> pop-up, Account ExpenseAccounts:Food:fruits:bananasHot dog 1.99*2 does > >> not exist, would you like to create it, Yes/No?To which I answer, "No" > but > >> the pop-up just shows up again!I finally said, "Yes", then canceled the > >> thing. That seems to have fixed the problem. > >> I'm running GC 3.0 Build 2.6.17b-2765-g70e636646+(2018-04-01) under > >> Ubuntu 17.10.This version has sticky fields. I.e., whenever I duplicate > >> transactions, I have to click on the original so I can overwrite the > text. > >> Thanks,Art > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >> 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 > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.