[GNC] Stock assist does not post transaction, Finance quote does not update price

[Paras Desai]

I am from India.
When i try to post stock purchase transaction, even though i finish without 
error, the transaction does not get posted.

It appears the stock assist features has more of cosmetic value than functional.


Since 26th the finance quote does not update price. When I press get quote 
button, program runs without error but fails to update quote.

This is my second attempt to post the issue but without any reply.

Will any one pay attention and try to help me , or I have to give up!

Thanks in advance and in anticipation.

Paras

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Re: [GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[R Losey]

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:58 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) <
stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade to a
> more recent version.
>
> 2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
> installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
> reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows installer
> of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation directory.
> Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
> directory?
>

My concern would be that GnuCash stores some data in the user's home
directory (reports; perhaps preferences), and there may be issues with
having the same user try to run three different versions.

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Re: [GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[David Carlson]

I guess I was either thinking of multi-boot systems or virtual machines
when I said different user space.  If you use virtual machines, you can
have many machines in one computer, but that requires a very powerful
computer and lots of drive space to implement.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 7:20 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) <
stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, David. Unfortunately I don't have the resources:
> just a desktop and a laptop, both of which are used for production.
>
> I'm not quite clear on your other suggestion, "in a different user space
> on the same computer". In Windows, the default location for installs is
> some subfolder of "C:\Program Files" for 64-bit programs, "C:\Program
> Files (x86)" for 32-bit programs. Those are system-wide folders, not
> part of any particular user's file space. The GC 3.11 installer seems
> not to let me specify installing to say a GnuCash3 subfolder, and I
> don't want to overwrite GC 2.6.19.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
>
> On 2023-08-02 16:12, David Carlson wrote:
> > Stan,
> >
> > If you have the resources, I think that the safest migration path would
> > be to install the next level of GnuCash on a completely different
> > computer or in a different user space on the same computer, and try it
> > out on a separate test data file.
> >
> > This avoids all the potential issues of cross contamination between sets
> > of data, too.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:58 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)
> > mailto:stan%2...@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> >
> > After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade
> to a
> > more recent version.
> >
> > 1. I'm on 2.6.19 now. I know conventional advice is to upgrade to the
> > last minor version of each major version in turn. Do I really need to
> > upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.11? If I really need to I will, but if
> it's
> > not necessary I'd just as soon save the time.
> >
> > 2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
> > installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
> > reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows
> installer
> > of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation
> directory.
> > Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
> > directory?
> >
> > 3. If I'm planning to run GC in English only, can I safely un-tick
> the
> > "Translation Files" item in the installer?
> >
> > I looked at  > > but it didn't
> > help with #2 and #3. And  > > doesn't
> > have any documentation for 3.11 or any other 3.x.
> >
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Re: [GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[Adrien Monteleone]

On 8/2/23 5:57 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) wrote:

After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade to a
more recent version.

1. I'm on 2.6.19 now. I know conventional advice is to upgrade to the
last minor version of each major version in turn. Do I really need to
upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.11? If I really need to I will, but if it's
not necessary I'd just as soon save the time.


See: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule/Archive

My understanding is you want the 'concurrent' version at least which 
would be 2.6.20 (21 was a special bug fix)


But if you have to take one more step anyway, you might as well jump to 21.

However, that isn't strictly necessary from my understanding, just 
recommended.


Retain the installer for 2.6.19 and a copy of your book and any 
customizations. (reports, CSS, etc.)


Then go ahead and move to 3.11.

If I understand correctly, the purpose of the last minor release 
recommendation is that it should be able to read the file after you 
upgrade to the next major release. So a downgrade, if needed, would not 
be cumbersome or fraught with peril. I could be mistaken however.


But I'd think regardless if you retain the installer and file backup, 
downgrading would simply entail restoring both and staying put until you 
can figure out what problem you encountered with the next jump.



2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows installer
of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation directory.
Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
directory?


That is strange, but I'd bet there is a command line way to do it. Of 
course, you'd have to make custom shortcuts for launchers pointing to 
their respective executables and possibly use multiple copies of your 
data file.



3. If I'm planning to run GC in English only, can I safely un-tick the
"Translation Files" item in the installer?


I don't see why not. That's what I'd do though. (I've never run it on 
Windows that I recall except maybe for testing, but it has been many moons.)


Regards,
Adrien

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Re: [GNC] Small amount

[john]

No. You can't subdivide a penny. Your crypto exchange might tell you your 
account value in USD to fractions of a penny but if you close out the position 
and have them transfer the proceeds to a real bank account it will get rounded 
to the penny.

You're not selling 76 "A" for 6/10 of a penny and buying 1/10 "B" for that 
amount, you're trading (bartering) the 76 "A" for 1/10 "B". 

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 2, 2023, at 13:28, Fred Tydeman  wrote:
> 
> I am trying to record a sale of a crypto coin and a purchase with that cash.
> 
> Sell 76 "A"  for $0.006 total
> Buy 0.1 "B" for 0.06/share for $0.006 total
> 
> But, the system keeps changing the total buy/sell $ to 0.01 from 0.006
> 
> Is there a way to keep more digits in the USD?
> 
> I changed the parent crypto account to USD with smallest fraction of 1/1000
> and that did not work.
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Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

[john]

So if you create new entries with the word "test" it doesn't freeze but if you 
put "test" back into the "Car Annual Test" transaction it freezes?

What happens if you create a new transaction with "Car Annual Test" for a 
description? My thought was that the position of "test" in that string might 
have something to do with it, so what about "Car Annual Test Foo", both in the 
original and in a new transaction?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 2, 2023, at 13:02, G R Hewitt  wrote:
> 
> I'm not so sure.
> Your reply prompted me to put it to the test, no pun intended.
> So I went back to the original entry and typed 'test' at the end of the
> description text.
> Lo and behold, the program froze on inputting 'tes' and also when deleting
> it the last 's' of the original entry.
> The truth is out there ...
> 
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 17:06, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
>> So no more freezing? That is indeed strange.
>> 
>> Good to know it wasn't a problem with the search then.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>> On 8/2/23 1:52 AM, G R Hewitt wrote:
>>> Good point.
>>> I trawled through my transactions and have plenty of 'non', 'stores',
>>> 'services' etc., so typed those to see how far they'd go.
>>> They were fine, no freezing.
>>> I've since created new transactions with 'test', 'Test', 'Test, test,
>>> test', restarted the program and everything works just fine.
>>> In my case it may have been 'just one of those things' and has now
>> cleared.
>>> But then again ... {cue X-Files theme}.
>> 
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Re: [GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)]

Thanks for the reply, David. Unfortunately I don't have the resources:
just a desktop and a laptop, both of which are used for production.

I'm not quite clear on your other suggestion, "in a different user space
on the same computer". In Windows, the default location for installs is
some subfolder of "C:\Program Files" for 64-bit programs, "C:\Program
Files (x86)" for 32-bit programs. Those are system-wide folders, not
part of any particular user's file space. The GC 3.11 installer seems
not to let me specify installing to say a GnuCash3 subfolder, and I
don't want to overwrite GC 2.6.19.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2023-08-02 16:12, David Carlson wrote:
> Stan,
> 
> If you have the resources, I think that the safest migration path would
> be to install the next level of GnuCash on a completely different
> computer or in a different user space on the same computer, and try it
> out on a separate test data file.
> 
> This avoids all the potential issues of cross contamination between sets
> of data, too.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:58 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)
> mailto:stan%2...@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> 
> After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade to a
> more recent version.
> 
> 1. I'm on 2.6.19 now. I know conventional advice is to upgrade to the
> last minor version of each major version in turn. Do I really need to
> upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.11? If I really need to I will, but if it's
> not necessary I'd just as soon save the time.
> 
> 2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
> installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
> reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows installer
> of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation directory.
> Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
> directory?
> 
> 3. If I'm planning to run GC in English only, can I safely un-tick the
> "Translation Files" item in the installer?
> 
> I looked at  > but it didn't
> help with #2 and #3. And  > doesn't
> have any documentation for 3.11 or any other 3.x.
> 
> -- 
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> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com 
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Re: [GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[David Carlson]

Stan,

If you have the resources, I think that the safest migration path would be
to install the next level of GnuCash on a completely different computer or
in a different user space on the same computer, and try it out on a
separate test data file.

This avoids all the potential issues of cross contamination between sets of
data, too.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:58 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) <
stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade to a
> more recent version.
>
> 1. I'm on 2.6.19 now. I know conventional advice is to upgrade to the
> last minor version of each major version in turn. Do I really need to
> upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.11? If I really need to I will, but if it's
> not necessary I'd just as soon save the time.
>
> 2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
> installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
> reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows installer
> of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation directory.
> Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
> directory?
>
> 3. If I'm planning to run GC in English only, can I safely un-tick the
> "Translation Files" item in the installer?
>
> I looked at  but it didn't
> help with #2 and #3. And  doesn't
> have any documentation for 3.11 or any other 3.x.
>
> --
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> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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[GNC] Installing 3.11 in Windows

[Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)]

After putting it off again and again, I'm finally ready to upgrade to a
more recent version.

1. I'm on 2.6.19 now. I know conventional advice is to upgrade to the
last minor version of each major version in turn. Do I really need to
upgrade to 2.6.21 before 3.11? If I really need to I will, but if it's
not necessary I'd just as soon save the time.

2. I'd like to have GC 2, 3, and 4 on my computer at the same time,
installed to different directories of course, so that I can compare
reports from those versions of my data file. But the Windows installer
of 3.11 doesn't seem to offer a way to set the installation directory.
Am I missing something, or will it truly install only to the default
directory?

3. If I'm planning to run GC in English only, can I safely un-tick the
"Translation Files" item in the installer?

I looked at  but it didn't
help with #2 and #3. And  doesn't
have any documentation for 3.11 or any other 3.x.

-- 
Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
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[GNC] Small amount

[Fred Tydeman]

I am trying to record a sale of a crypto coin and a purchase with that cash.

Sell 76 "A"  for $0.006 total
Buy 0.1 "B" for 0.06/share for $0.006 total

But, the system keeps changing the total buy/sell $ to 0.01 from 0.006

Is there a way to keep more digits in the USD?

I changed the parent crypto account to USD with smallest fraction of 1/1000
and that did not work.
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Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

[G R Hewitt]

I'm not so sure.
Your reply prompted me to put it to the test, no pun intended.
So I went back to the original entry and typed 'test' at the end of the
description text.
Lo and behold, the program froze on inputting 'tes' and also when deleting
it the last 's' of the original entry.
The truth is out there ...

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 17:06, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:

> So no more freezing? That is indeed strange.
>
> Good to know it wasn't a problem with the search then.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/2/23 1:52 AM, G R Hewitt wrote:
> > Good point.
> > I trawled through my transactions and have plenty of 'non', 'stores',
> > 'services' etc., so typed those to see how far they'd go.
> > They were fine, no freezing.
> > I've since created new transactions with 'test', 'Test', 'Test, test,
> > test', restarted the program and everything works just fine.
> > In my case it may have been 'just one of those things' and has now
> cleared.
> > But then again ... {cue X-Files theme}.
>
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[GNC] QIF Import Problem

[Brenda Leudke]

Good afternoon:

I am a first time poster, long time user of gnucash...

I am trying to import a QIF file into gnucash. Gnucash is entering
everything as a debit. I can't verify this but am being told that it works
with Quicken. Is there a problem with the file or is there a problem with
gnucash? I would appreciate any help.

Here is the qif file (an attachment is also included):

!Type:Cash

D06/10'23

U0.00

T0.00

PCustomer1

MCottage #3 Bkg 1032 06/10/2023-06/17/2023

L

SIncome:Cottage Rental:Cottage #3

ECottage #3 Bkg 1032 06/10/2023-06/17/2023

$1075.00

SIncome:HST Collected

ECottage #3 Bkg 1032 HST

$139.75

SAssets:TD Business

ECottage #3 Bkg 1032 06/10/2023-06/17/2023

$-1214.75

^

D06/10'23

U1214.75

T1214.75

PCustomer1

MCottage #3 Bkg 1032 Payment etransfer

L

 

 



Gnucash_Import.QIF
Description: Binary data
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[GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

[davidvernonlong]

Hi,

It's a bit like partnership accounts where each partner effectively has
equity account, and the total of their equity accounts equals the net assets
of the partnership. The proportion of equity each partner has represents the
proportion of the net assets of the partnership.

To take each part of your question in turn:

The membership fee with which a member 'buys in' to the community is 
> to be paid in by a certain date. With the contribution a member 
> acquires shares in the community assets and buys a private plot of 
> land. The total amount can be paid in full, flexibly with several 
> installments or with monthly transfers.
> How do you map the community's outstanding claims against a member who 
> has not yet paid the contribution in full?
> It would also be useful to have an overview of which payments are due 
> from whom and when, so that payments received can be compared with them.
> Reports that show the current status of deposits for all members and 
> list the deposits made for each member would certainly also be helpful.

Set up an equity account in Gnu Cash (Account Type : Equity) for each member
and a current account for each member (Account type Asset , Parent account
Current Assets)

Make the following account entries for each member :Credit his/her equity
account with the amount of cash they are supposed to pay in and debit their
current account.

When they pay then : credit their current account and debit bank account.

That way you will be able to see the total amount of equity they have been
allocated and the amount they still owe if they have not paid in.


> This is interesting for cases where the community generates income 
> that can be paid out to the members, if necessary. How can this 
> scenario be mapped in gnuCash and illustrated in reports?

At the end of the year the profit and loss account will be reflected in the
retained earnings when you close the books. you can then allocate this
profit or loss to the members equity accounts in proportion to their equity
by the following entries :  Debit(if profit) retained earnings and  credit
each members equity account.  The total of all the members equity account
will then equal the net assets of your entity.
> 
> ## System boundaries
> How to map cash flows between accounts inside and outside the system 
> boundaries?
> An example: A member buys something for the community with his private 
> cash (outside the system boundary). When the invoice is submitted, the 
> amount is paid to the member from a community account (inside the 
> system boundary). The member's cash account basically lives outside 
> the system boundary and is not mapped into gnuCash, right? How does 
> such a scenario work in double-entry accounting?

If a member buys something for the community entity with their own cash,
then the bookkeeping entries are : debit what ever account relevant for what
has been bought (an asset or expense account) and credit the members current
account. By the way, I have found Google Forms quite a good way of getting
approval for purchases from members or a committee. When the entity pays the
member what it owes to them for his purchase the accounting entries are
credit cash and debit the members current account.

You may introduce the invoicing capability of GnuCash to invoice
shares/equity bought), but I guess that this is not something you will do
often or frequently, so maybe do not bother with it, but you can take a look
at it.

I agree with others who say a bit of bookkeeping knowledge would be helpful,
so that's why I explain in terms of "debits" and "credits" rather than
increase and decrease, on the assumption you have a basic understanding of
double entry

David

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   1. Re:  Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a
  Transaction (john)
   2. Re:  Ideas and recommendations for community project
  (Adrien Monteleone)
   3. Re:  Today's searchfor .lck (Adrien Monteleone)
   4. Re:  Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a
  Transaction (G R Hewitt)
   5. Re:  Today's searchfor .lck (Michael or Penny Novack)
   6.  GnuCash preferred OS - Windows or Linux (flywire)
   7.  Another 'new' file (Barry Mahon)
   8. Re:  Another 'new' file (Adrien Monteleone)
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Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

[Adrien Monteleone]

So no more freezing? That is indeed strange.

Good to know it wasn't a problem with the search then.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/2/23 1:52 AM, G R Hewitt wrote:

Good point.
I trawled through my transactions and have plenty of 'non', 'stores',
'services' etc., so typed those to see how far they'd go.
They were fine, no freezing.
I've since created new transactions with 'test', 'Test', 'Test, test,
test', restarted the program and everything works just fine.
In my case it may have been 'just one of those things' and has now cleared.
But then again ... {cue X-Files theme}.


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Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

[Adrien Monteleone]

I know Michael. That's the whole point. Have you read the other threads 
from this OP? Their files appear to be a mess of backup files used as 
their book.


And the OP still hasn't answered *how* they open their book, by app 
shortcut, or by clicking the file. I suspect clicking the file. And I 
suspect not paying attention while doing so. Just as you noted.


Regards,
Adrien

On 8/2/23 9:24 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:

"GNU FEB 12 2019.gnucash.20210219151108.gnucash.LCK"


And while that is a file from gnucash it is almost certainly NOT the 
name the user assigned to the file that is their books << and yes, it is 
a gnucash internal backup file >> The presence of that lock means that 
this backup file was left open. So while OK to delete the lock (if you 
know that gnucash is not running) it is NOT  the file you want to open 
when you start gnucash. Note that if one did accidentally open this file 
could be on the "recently open" list and if on the top if the list, will 
be reopened when you start gnucash. THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT.


So LOOK at what gets opened when you start gnucash (the bar should show 
the file name). If NOT the right file, use file=>open to specify the 
correct file name and then once open, shut down. Now wen you reopen 
gnucash will be on top of the list (most recently opened)


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Re: [GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

[gibel...@gmx.net]

On 02.08.23 16:36, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:

Please -- we are not competent to give this sort of accounting advice.
Especially for what is an esoteric/rare type of entity (probably not
addressed in most accounting texts) This seriously needs consulting
with an accountant familiar with this form of entity, especially if
unable to find an accounting text covering this type of entity.


Well, then let's close this esoteric discussion... ;-)

I will find an accountant... Thank you all...

Best regards,
Sebastian

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Re: [GNC] Ideas and recommendations for community project

[Michael or Penny Novack]

Please -- we are not competent to give this sort of accounting advice. 
Especially for what is an esoteric/rare type of entity (probably not 
addressed in most accounting texts) This seriously needs consulting with 
an accountant familiar with this form of entity, especially if unable to 
find an accounting text covering this type of entity.


Michael D Novack

PS -- I'm pretty sure the "shares" of such an entity are not under 
assets but equity << particular shares might become assets if fully paid 
in shares have been donated back to the entity >> But PLEASE, it is 
perhaps six decades since I looked at a text  discussing entities with 
"shares" and my memory isn't THAT good.



On 8/2/2023 1:52 AM, gibel...@gmx.net wrote:

Your suggestion sounds interesting, although in my case I have to map
the side of the provider of the investment, because the community wants
to "sell" shares to members, right? So, in the example, the community
would be the hotel itself, which offers shares and wants to record them
either as income or as open receivables.

One way to map this scenario could perhaps be:
Assets:Community-Shares: holds the shares that the community offers.
Income:Community-Shares: holds the membership payments already made for
shares
Assets:Accounts-Receivable:Community-Shares: holds the outstanding
receivables for shares that have already been sold

There would then be the cash flows "Assets:Community-Shares ->
Income:Community-Shares" for paid amounts and "Assets:Community-Shares
-> Assets:Accounts-Receivable:Community-Shares" for open amounts. The
individual entries could reference the appropriate member in the
description.

The question that is still bothering me with this approach - if it makes
any sense at all - is how I can credit a posting in the
"Income:Community-Shares" account to a bank account in parallel, because
with the posting Assets:Community-Shares -> Income:Community-Shares two
accounts are already involved.

On 01.08.23 16:09, Fred Tydeman wrote:
For a hotel being built, I bought 3 shares on credit in a private 
company

In the Assets:Investment:Hotel   which is an Account Type of Stock
I bought 3 shares with the money for those shares coming from
Liabilities:Loans:Hotel    which is an Account Type of Liability.

Then, as I get income from other places, that income is used to
pay off the Hotel loan.

So, perhaps, you could replace "Hotel" with "person1", "person2", ...
in the above.

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Re: [GNC] Today's search....for .lck

[Michael or Penny Novack]

If you do a search for all files with file extension ".lck" what 
reason do you have to suppose that it is a lock file for a gnucach 
file? I will repeat, this is a rather common method for preventing 
simultaneous access to a resource. Do you KNOW that none of your 
other applications are using the lock file method?


Michael, that is a fair point as I noted in a previous reply, but the 
OP just reported, as you quoted, that the LCK file in question *was* 
for a GnuCash file *because* it had a GnuCash file name in it. Did you 
not read that part?


"GNU FEB 12 2019.gnucash.20210219151108.gnucash.LCK"


And while that is a file from gnucash it is almost certainly NOT the 
name the user assigned to the file that is their books << and yes, it is 
a gnucash internal backup file >> The presence of that lock means that 
this backup file was left open. So while OK to delete the lock (if you 
know that gnucash is not running) it is NOT  the file you want to open 
when you start gnucash. Note that if one did accidentally open this file 
could be on the "recently open" list and if on the top if the list, will 
be reopened when you start gnucash. THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT.


So LOOK at what gets opened when you start gnucash (the bar should show 
the file name). If NOT the right file, use file=>open to specify the 
correct file name and then once open, shut down. Now wen you reopen 
gnucash will be on top of the list (most recently opened)


Michael D Novack


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Re: [GNC] Unable to enter data in "Description" field of a Transaction

[G R Hewitt]

Good point.
I trawled through my transactions and have plenty of 'non', 'stores',
'services' etc., so typed those to see how far they'd go.
They were fine, no freezing.
I've since created new transactions with 'test', 'Test', 'Test, test,
test', restarted the program and everything works just fine.
In my case it may have been 'just one of those things' and has now cleared.
But then again ... {cue X-Files theme}.

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 05:00, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:

> John might laugh at me or be annoyed at my 'noise' but considering the
> details, and without even looking at the code, which is likely more
> noise and annoying, I had the initial suspicion that there is a loop
> problem and 't-e-s-t' is a problem because the 't' is repeated, causing
> an infinite loop, and thus lock up. Proof of that suspicion would be to
> test (ha!) another string where the initial character is repeated at
> least immediately after the offered search characters, but that mileage
> may vary. As I said, I haven't looked at the code, and I could be truly
> a fool for even thinking it.
>
> I don't have time today, maybe tomorrow, but if the solution isn't
> found, I'll give it a go to test such a condition at least just for my
> own curiosity.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/1/23 3:16 PM, G R Hewitt wrote:
> > I didn't understand the code, I just copied and pasted it.
> > I did wonder about there being a random character as I copied and pasted
> it
> > from the online account.
> > I blitzed the description text in all occurrences and typed it in to make
> > sure it was clean.
> > Very strange that it is just (so far) 'Tes' or 'tes', especially if you
> use
> > back-space to delete, as soon as the last 't' of 'Test' is deleted it
> locks
> > up the program.
> > I await your findings with interest.
>
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