How can I get the “Note” column to show up? > On Jan 19, 2022, at 9:00 AM, [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: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 48 (Liz) > 2. Re: OneDrive and GnuCash (Edward Doolittle) > 3. Re: Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57 (Peter) > 4. Re: Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57 (David Carlson) > 5. Re: OneDrive ([email protected]) > 6. Re: OneDrive (Chris Green) > 7. Re: Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57 (Peter) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:53:08 +1100 > From: Liz <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 48 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:17:10 -0800 > Heide Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> after I recorded the split transaction, the furniture account shows >> 250.00 but did not show it is for a chair. Did I do something wrong? >> why on the split transaction it shows a chair but not on the >> furniture account ledge? > > I think you have put the "chair" on the notes for the payment to the > credit card company, rather than on the note in the split for the > furniture. > > The long answer is to make the credit card account another account in > Gnucash and enter the two transactions separately into the credit card > account, then pay the credit card from the cheque account. > > Liz > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:01:21 +0000 > From: Edward Doolittle <[email protected]> > To: David Carlson <[email protected]>, Gnucash Users > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash > Message-ID: > > <dm6pr05mb67640e108b4d307f6bc6bec2f6...@dm6pr05mb6764.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > I tried OneDrive with gc for a while. It worked until it didn?t. I?m still > not sure what happened, but I think MS unilaterally decided to reorganize my > OneDrive setup. Gc just did not like what it did and starting one day gc > would not open the file. I?m not sure what was wrong, and I couldn?t find > out, because I don?t get the Windows file system at all (Unix guy here) and I > just could not figure it out even with Google?s help. My hypothesis was that > somewhere along the line something like a symlink was being used and gc > didn?t like it. But I still don?t have a clue, and I don?t need the > aggravation, so I just moved my gc files out of OneDrive. > > I?ve not (yet) had any problems with Office apps and OneDrive which led me to > believe the problem is that gc accesses the Windows file system at too low a > level, but I?m sorry, I just don?t have time these days to help debug this > problem. > > Aside from that, I was always sweating over race conditions. Once a long > time ago I lost some work because it wasn?t uploaded by OneDrive and then I > force opened the file on another computer overriding the lock (bad habit cuz > I had to do it fairly regularly). The work was in the cloud somewhere but it > was less trouble in that case for me to retype it. So my fault, really, but > I really really don?t need to expend a chunk of my brain mentally modelling > the cloud sync and lock behaviour every time I use gc. > > Other cloud file services might provide better warnings, and might allow you > to wrap the call to gc in a test that will pop a warning until the file is > up-to-date in the cloud. Heck, OneDrive might provide such a wrapper too but > I don?t know the system well enough. > > One piece of advice for everyone: when transferring data from paper to gc, > keep the paper with potentially unsynced data in a separate pile until you > know it?s ok (for whatever sense of ok is relevant to you ? cloud synced or > hard drive synced or backed up to external hd, e.g.). When you know it is > synced or otherwise backed up, then file it. In addition to losing data to > the cloud issue described above, I?ve also lost data the old fashioned way > (power failure on a desktop without battery backup), and both times I had > more trouble than necessary re-running my transactions because I managed all > those slips of paper poorly. > > Edward > ________________________________ > From: gnucash-user > <[email protected]> on behalf of > David Carlson <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:52 PM > To: Gnucash Users > Subject: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash > > Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? > > Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and log > files? > _______________________________________________ > 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: 3 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:01:33 +0800 > From: Peter <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > This is interesting. > > I have had this problem of gnucash intermittently not removing the LOCK > file for some time. > My method of closing gnucash is firstly to save the data and the close > using the menu. I always follow this process and never use the 'X' method. > > August 24, 2021 gnucash ver 4.6, I investigated using SQLlite instead of > the compressed XML for data storage. > SQLite worked but the resultant file(s) were much larger than the XML > compressed version so I decided to continue to use the compressed XML. > > From that date (August 24, 2021) to today I still get gnucash > intermittently not removing the LOCK file. > This includes ver4.7, ver4.8 and ver4.9. It may happen ver4.6 but unsure. > Ever time I updated I hoped it would resolve the issue but it still happens. > About 20 days ago I deleted the SQL subdirectory and files from my local > data disk. This seemed to make no difference to the issue. > > > > On 19/01/2022 06:17, [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: Exiting GNUCash (D.) >> 2. Re: Exiting GNUCash (David Carlson) >> 3. OneDrive ([email protected]) >> 4. Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 48 (Heide Wang) >> 5. Re: OneDrive and GnuCash ([email protected]) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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: 4 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:32:22 -0600 > From: David Carlson <[email protected]> > To: Peter <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57 > Message-ID: > <cadygsbkzd3huetefkluhtnmgolzs_cy4g+7-def8eppfope...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Peter, > > Your message has gotten detached from the thread.. > > We need more information to hazard a guess whether your issue is the same > as that of Gyle or if it is just similar. > > Do you save your data file on a hard drive? Do you encrypt it? > > Do you use cloud storage for backup? > > Do you use Windows or another OS? > > Can you think of any other commonality when the lock file is not deleted? > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 11:05 PM Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is interesting. >> >> I have had this problem of gnucash intermittently not removing the LOCK >> file for some time. >> My method of closing gnucash is firstly to save the data and the close >> using the menu. I always follow this process and never use the 'X' method. >> >> August 24, 2021 gnucash ver 4.6, I investigated using SQLlite instead of >> the compressed XML for data storage. >> SQLite worked but the resultant file(s) were much larger than the XML >> compressed version so I decided to continue to use the compressed XML. >> >> From that date (August 24, 2021) to today I still get gnucash >> intermittently not removing the LOCK file. >> This includes ver4.7, ver4.8 and ver4.9. It may happen ver4.6 but unsure. >> Ever time I updated I hoped it would resolve the issue but it still >> happens. >> About 20 days ago I deleted the SQL subdirectory and files from my local >> data disk. This seemed to make no difference to the issue. >> >> >> >> On 19/01/2022 06:17, [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: Exiting GNUCash (D.) >>> 2. Re: Exiting GNUCash (David Carlson) >>> 3. OneDrive ([email protected]) >>> 4. Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 48 (Heide Wang) >>> 5. Re: OneDrive and GnuCash ([email protected]) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> 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: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:20:51 -0000 > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] OneDrive > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I have been using One Drive for over a year for a local community business > and had no problems. > I also have another set of accounts for a charity that uses SharePoint to > save the files, again no problems. > > Regards > > James Billinghurst > > > > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:59:35 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GNC] OneDrive > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi, I began using GnuCash at the beginning of 2021. Since the onset, I've > had it in a OneDrive folder. I've had no problems with it syncing between > my computers. > > From: David Carlson <[email protected]> > > Good. I would still like to hear from others about their experience with > using GnuCash and OneDrive together. > > > 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 226, Issue 57 > ********************************************* > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:13:35 +0000 > From: Chris Green <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GNC] OneDrive > Message-ID: <YefkT/cqgRKOJEAr@esprimo> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 09:20:51AM -0000, [email protected] wrote: >> I have been using One Drive for over a year for a local community business >> and had no problems. >> I also have another set of accounts for a charity that uses SharePoint to >> save the files, again no problems. >> > I simply use Syncthing to synchronise the GnuCash files between my > laptop and my desktop machines, it works perfectly. Obviously I need > to be sure I don't run GnuCash on both machines at the same time but > that's not difficult. Systems don't have to be on the same network > for Syncthing to work and it will re-synchronise after a total > disconnection. > > It means I don't rely on 'the cloud' for any backups and everything is > kept on hardware that's mine. Syncthing is available for MS, Apple, > Linux and Android systems and can synchronise files across all of them > if you want. > > I do keep (off site) incremental backups as well. You do need to be > able to go back in time to recover from your own errors which GnuCash > (or whatever) has faithfully saved for you! :-) > > -- > Chris Green > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:45:56 +0800 > From: Peter <[email protected]> > To: David Carlson <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Exiting gnucash Lock file Vol 226, Issue 57 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Oh dear, > In the excitement of finding out that someone else possibly had the > problem I forgot to add. >>> Your message has gotten detached from the thread.. > NFI >>> Do you save your data file on a hard drive? Do you encrypt it? > Storage: Local disk separate from the OS drive. Has separate > directory d:public\data\........... > Storage method: XML and compressed >>> Do you use Windows or another OS? > OS: Windows 10 and kept up to date as per MS demands > Version of gnucash: 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 all exhibit the problem. >>> Do you use cloud storage for backup? > NO defiantly NO >>> Can you think of any other commonality when the lock file is not > deleted? > Whats common? - Started after a SQLite test gnu version 4.6 . SQL > directory was set to be different to the XML directory. > - since gnucash 4.9 that SQL directory has > been deleted but issue still remains > > I follow the standard process of installing the newest version directly > on top of the previous version. (Seems to be the standard process.) > I have tried to uninstall the previous version but no different. I > suspect that there is something that I cannot find or that are hidden > that I cannot remove as I don't know where. > It would be nice if the uninstall process did give the option of delete > anything that was hidden from normal beings view. i.e do a clean > install. > > On 19/01/2022 14:32, David Carlson wrote: > > Peter, > Your message has gotten detached from the thread.. > We need more information to hazard a guess whether your issue is the > same as that of Gyle or if it is just similar. > Do you save your data file on a hard drive? Do you encrypt it? > Do you use cloud storage for backup? > Do you use Windows or another OS? > Can you think of any other commonality when the lock file is not > deleted? > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 11:05 PM Peter <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > This is interesting. > I have had this problem of gnucash intermittently not removing the > LOCK > file for some time. > My method of closing gnucash is firstly to save the data and the > close > using the menu. I always follow this process and never use the 'X' > method. > August 24, 2021 gnucash ver 4.6, I investigated using SQLlite > instead of > the compressed XML for data storage. > SQLite worked but the resultant file(s) were much larger than the > XML > compressed version so I decided to continue to use the compressed > XML. > From that date (August 24, 2021) to today I still get gnucash > intermittently not removing the LOCK file. > This includes ver4.7, ver4.8 and ver4.9. It may happen ver4.6 but > unsure. > Ever time I updated I hoped it would resolve the issue but it still > happens. > About 20 days ago I deleted the SQL subdirectory and files from my > local > data disk. This seemed to make no difference to the issue. > On 19/01/2022 06:17, [2][email protected] wrote: >> Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to >> [3][email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> [4]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [5][email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [6][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: Exiting GNUCash (D.) >> 2. Re: Exiting GNUCash (David Carlson) >> 3. OneDrive ([7][email protected]) >> 4. Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 48 (Heide Wang) >> 5. Re: OneDrive and GnuCash ([8][email protected]) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [9][email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> [10]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > [11]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 > [12][email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > [13]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > [14]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. > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > 5. mailto:[email protected] > 6. mailto:[email protected] > 7. mailto:[email protected] > 8. mailto:[email protected] > 9. mailto:[email protected] > 10. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > 11. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists > 12. mailto:[email protected] > 13. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > 14. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 226, Issue 58 > *********************************************
_______________________________________________ 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.
