Re: [GNC] Issues
See the wiki FAQ about upgrading. The suggested path is to upgrade to the end of each major version, running "Actions > Check & Repair > Check & Repair All" at each step. So your path would have been: 2.4.13 -> 2.4.15 (final 2.4.x version, might be optional) -> 2.6.21 (last 2.6.x version) -> 3.11 (last 3.x version) -> 4.14 (last 4.x version) -> 5.3 (or current release) Cleanups and migrations are done along the way. Skipping right to 5.3 might not bring everything forward properly. And of course the usual caveat of always keeping a backup copy of your file at each stage applies. Between 2.6.x & 3.x some other file locations were changed. These are documented on the Wiki and in the release notes. If you find custom saved reports and other things besides data didn't make it through an upgrade, the migration might have not completed properly and you'll have to do some things manually. (most systems upgrade fine. I don't know if it was ever discovered what caused this issue) Now that you're already on 5.3 and have opened the data file, I'm not sure what you will encounter or what problems might result. This particular issue I would find strange to be associated with the migration. There is a Tab Width preference you could maybe play with. Also consider temporarily moving the tab bar to say the left or right so it is vertical and see if more than 4 open. Also consider changing the preference to open new tabs in new windows instead and see if the limitation persists. You mention this is on a laptop. Is there room in the tab bar for another tab or is it full at 4 + Accounts? (5 tabs total) If so, a bug report might be in order. Regards, Adrien On 8/28/23 1:59 PM, Greg wrote: Hi Adrien, I realize that 2.4.13, was extremely old, but it completely worked for me. Whenever I upgraded, I always had a new set of issues, I really didn't have time to deal with. 2.4.13 started acting a little flaky with Windows 10, so I thought it may be time to install 5.3. When I installed 5.3 on my machine, I first completely deleted 2.4.13 , including the configuration and report files. I then snooped all over the computer and deleted anything pertaining to GNUcash. I then ran CCleaner and Privazer and deleted any residual registry entries. I then rebooted and did a fresh new install of GNUcash 5.3. Everything worked great. I was first impressed by the Account Reconciliation report, which 2.4.13 lacked. I'm familiar with the style sheets and created custom ones for our purposes. I'll have to check the fonts, as you stated. I suppose I should have said, "Can only display 4 account register tabs on the screen, besides the Accounts tab." Normally, the register tabs "shrink" to allow more account registers to be displayed, but his doesn't. Could that be in Edit/Preferences/Windows? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
Barry, In this message you state that ' administrato' is the good name to use but you do not say whether that is the username that you log into your computer with from a cold start or whether you are still logged in as administrato when you start Gnucash. When you start Gnucash do you get a warning that the file is read only? Is that the name of the user that has administrator access? Also have you checked the properties of that user to see if you read and write privileges as that user and in folders belonging to that user? On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:57 AM Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Thank you Adrien for a) being so patient, and b) reacting properly to > the unnecessary comments. > > Somewhere, way back, it is my impression that the requirement for > attaching to posts had to be in jpg format, is that the case, or will a > vanilla screen scrape do?? From this message that would appear to be the > case. Also, I am not certain how much of a scrape you need, I have > screenfulls. > > I aplogise for the confusion between adminstratO and adminstrator. As a > result of various ministrations to this PC when I first got it, a while > back, several names were applied, barry mahon, finbar mahon, > administration, and administrato, The latter one if 'good' > > As to attach, maybe it my misunderstanding. I have a screen in a file > in 'This PC' with a list of files from gnu. If I do 'attach' (top RHS) > it appears, but if I then click Add Attachment the files screen 'blinks' > and if I click 'send' it asks 'did you forget an attachment' If I do > PrtSc (or windows icon and PrtSc, depending on the advice received!!) > the same things happens 'did you forget' > > I have answered 'no, send now' to send this, sorry, further confusion. > > Barry ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] csv of invoice data
I needed to play with the invoices data a while ago and used the query below (gnucash file saved as an sqlite database). I didn't need the full invoice details and only selected a few of the fields. This should be enough to get you started. Note that the invoices are in one table and the invoice items are in another table. SELECT invoices.date_posted, invoices.id, invoices.notes, accounts.name AS acct_name, entries.description, quantity_num, quantity_denom, b_price_num, b_price_denom, quantity_num / CAST(quantity_denom AS FLOAT) AS quantity, b_price_num / CAST(b_price_denom AS FLOAT) AS price FROM entries, accounts LEFT JOIN invoices ON entries.bill = invoices.guid David On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 16:24, Morgan Read via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hi again :) > > In addition to wanting to deal with some old invoices, I'm also wanting > to generate a csv of invoice data. There's this post a few years back, > but I feel there must be better. I've discovered the page on > 'ledger-cli': https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ledger-CLI - which seems > complicated (perhaps not) but, I'm using a sqlite as a back-end anyway. > > It says here: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Published_tools > That bad things will happen if accessing the GnuCash data outside of > GnuCash - but, one of the reasons for switching to sqlite a while back > was accessing the db to pull things out - and no harm can be done if the > db is accessed read-only, can it? Further down the page there's some > links to export invoice data under 'Export invoices' - the GIP invoice > printer says something about a csv template: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-June/025615.html > > I've set up access to the db via unixodbc and from there opened it in LO > Base - but having got there, I got to wondering if there's an easier way > to get a csv of invoice data? > > Thanks > -- > Morgan Read > > Grande Bretagne > Em: > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- David Whiting ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
Barry, A file attached to an email can be of any type -there is generally no requirement on the type of file to attach. Whether the recipient can then open it depends on the software they are using. Most of the common image formats (.jpg, .gif, .tif, .png etc) which are compressed bitmap images can be opened by most image display programs - less so in the case of vector drawing formats. The information we need to help you is mainly going to be in the form of screen window captures from File Explorer (or command like DIR with specific options from the command line interface to display the ownership and permissions information. You can either capture an image of the window on the screen or if using the command line window direct the ouput of the command line to a text file. In all cases first you need to create the image or text file on your hard disk and then you need to attach the file you create to an email reply. You can also find plenty of help on-line for Windows specific operations using Google. But doing that successfully usually means including a few specific keywords in the search term the most important of which will be "Windows" likely "file" and then a descriptor of the information you are trying to find to limit the replies to something useful. In some cases it may appear that we are trying to teach you to suck eggs but we have only limited information about your familiarity with the Windows operating system and what you know or don't know. The impression most of us get from your replies is that you are a relatively new user of Windows with not a lot of background on how operating systems work in general and how Windows works in detail. On the other hand we who are replying also often have widely different and overlapping skill sets and individually use GnuCash on one or more of the three major PC operating systems and sub-variants in the case of Linux users. Some of us are or have been software developers. Our aim is to get to a common understanding which will enable us to help you sort your problem. You may find the profusion of answers coming from different directions a little confusing but often it is the variety of perspectives that is the main advantage of a mailing list. David Cousens On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 17:53 +0200, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > Thank you Adrien for a) being so patient, and b) reacting properly to > the unnecessary comments. > > Somewhere, way back, it is my impression that the requirement for > attaching to posts had to be in jpg format, is that the case, or will a > vanilla screen scrape do?? From this message that would appear to be the > case. Also, I am not certain how much of a scrape you need, I have > screenfulls. > > I aplogise for the confusion between adminstratO and adminstrator. As a > result of various ministrations to this PC when I first got it, a while > back, several names were applied, barry mahon, finbar mahon, > administration, and administrato, The latter one if 'good' > > As to attach, maybe it my misunderstanding. I have a screen in a file > in 'This PC' with a list of files from gnu. If I do 'attach' (top RHS) > it appears, but if I then click Add Attachment the files screen 'blinks' > and if I click 'send' it asks 'did you forget an attachment' If I do > PrtSc (or windows icon and PrtSc, depending on the advice received!!) > the same things happens 'did you forget' > > I have answered 'no, send now' to send this, sorry, further confusion. > > Barry > > > On 28/08/2023 12:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > That's mostly my fault on the 'administrato' vs. 'administator' issue. > > > > But I only kept typing that because Barry reported a file path at one > > point with that spelling, and I wasn't certain of a possible different > > language in use, so I didn't correct it. If Barry transcribed the file > > path instead of copy/pasting it, that would explain the spelling. > > > > As for permissions, I'm not even concerned about root/admin vs. not > > but simply one user trying to save into another's file tree. That > > alone would most likely return a permissions error message. It seems > > Barry is logging in regularly under an account with that name, but > > GnuCash is opening a file stored under another user. (at some point > > that had to be done manually via File > Open, or since this is > > Windows, perhaps navigating to that other user and double-clicking the > > file - still manual and intentional) > > > > Why the file is there instead of the regular user account, I don't know. > > > > But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, > > fixing the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to > > clean up the multiple file/backup file apparent mess. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > On 8/28/23 4:14 AM, Maf. King wrote: > > > I also note, and it may be a typo by Barry, but the user often being > > > called > > > the "Administrator" account by
Re: [GNC] moving unpaid invoices between businesses?
Morgan, This is not really either an accounting or Gnucash specific issue but a legal issue. Companies are separate legal entities. How you do it will be determined by the legal position under the law in your jurisdiction. Companies do sell uncollected debts to collection companies in many jurisdictions so it should be possible in principle. Suggest you get the legalities sorted first with a lawyer and then seek advice of a local accountant. That will ensure you comply with the legal requirements which will then determine how to record them. David Cousens On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 14:09 +0100, Morgan Read via gnucash-user wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I have a conundrum - I have historic unpaid invoices in one business and > would like to transfer them to another business. Both conceptually, how > should I go about this, and practically how should I go about this with > two sets of gnucash accounts? > > I thought of issuing credit notes against the invoices in the business > I'm transferring from and then reissue them in the business I'm > transferring to - but, then that might let the recalcitrant debtors off > the hook. > > It seems like I'm selling the debt to the new business - so, similar to > selling the invoices to a debt collection service, perhaps? That would > mean issuing new invoices from the old business to the new business - > but then, what are the new invoices for, the old invoices... > > This makes my head hurt; it must have been done before. > > Many thanks. > -- > Morgan Read > > Grande Bretagne > Em: > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues
Hi Adrien, I realize that 2.4.13, was extremely old, but it completely worked for me. Whenever I upgraded, I always had a new set of issues, I really didn't have time to deal with. 2.4.13 started acting a little flaky with Windows 10, so I thought it may be time to install 5.3. When I installed 5.3 on my machine, I first completely deleted 2.4.13 , including the configuration and report files. I then snooped all over the computer and deleted anything pertaining to GNUcash. I then ran CCleaner and Privazer and deleted any residual registry entries. I then rebooted and did a fresh new install of GNUcash 5.3. Everything worked great. I was first impressed by the Account Reconciliation report, which 2.4.13 lacked. I'm familiar with the style sheets and created custom ones for our purposes. I'll have to check the fonts, as you stated. I suppose I should have said, "Can only display 4 account register tabs on the screen, besides the Accounts tab." Normally, the register tabs "shrink" to allow more account registers to be displayed, but his doesn't. Could that be in Edit/Preferences/Windows? On 8/28/2023 12:34 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Greg, 2.4.x was a very old release. Did you properly go through the version by version upgrade on both machines, or did you just jump from 2.4.13 to 5.3? And what do you mean exactly by 'display accounts on the page'? Can he not open more than 4 register tabs? (so 5 tabs total including the ever-present 'Accounts' tab) Maybe a screenshot here will help clarify. Obfuscate any sensitive numbers/info of course. As for the negative numbers issue: That preference is for the Accounts Tab & various Register Tabs. Reports have their own separate display controls via Style Sheets. Unless otherwise specified, all reports use the 'Default' style sheet. You can set a custom style sheet via Options, or else edit the default style sheet via Edit > Style Sheets. From there, select 'Default' and click the Edit button. You'll see on the Fonts tab an option for 'Negative numbers in red' that you can un-select. Click 'Apply', Then reload the report. Future reports should behave accordingly. Regards, Adrien On 8/27/23 9:38 PM, Greg wrote: Hi, several weeks ago, I installed GNUcash vs 5.3. I had been using vs 2.4.13. I used to be the financial accountant at our church for 20 years until my disability forced me to retire. The man that took over uses 2.4.13, however installed 5.3 on one of his Windows 10 laptops, but he is having issues, where I am not. The issue he is having, is that he can not display more than 4 accounts at one time on the page. I have no problems displaying even 7 accounts. After displaying more than 4 accounts, they just horizontally shrink to accommodate more accounts on my Windows 10 laptop. His does not. He can only display 4 accounts. Is there a setting to change that will allow him to display more than 4 accounts? The issue I am having: Despite changing the option not to display negative numbers is red in the preferences, negative numbers still show up in red in reports. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
On 2023-08-28 08:05, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: > With regards to Nigel's comment, over the past month and a half, > there have been well over a hundred messages sprinkled across > eight different threads that seek to address the situation. At > some point, it would seem that the problems cannot be solved > through this venue. For me, that was about 40-50 messages ago. I believe I missed Nigel's comment, but I agree with all that David T. said. And sprinkling messages across multiple threads, one of them the generic "GnuCash", just makes things worse. Those of us with nothing to contribute (unless we want to duplicate what others have said, which would be unhelpful) can't even filter out this mess. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com/ ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
Thank you Adrien for a) being so patient, and b) reacting properly to the unnecessary comments. Somewhere, way back, it is my impression that the requirement for attaching to posts had to be in jpg format, is that the case, or will a vanilla screen scrape do?? From this message that would appear to be the case. Also, I am not certain how much of a scrape you need, I have screenfulls. I aplogise for the confusion between adminstratO and adminstrator. As a result of various ministrations to this PC when I first got it, a while back, several names were applied, barry mahon, finbar mahon, administration, and administrato, The latter one if 'good' As to attach, maybe it my misunderstanding. I have a screen in a file in 'This PC' with a list of files from gnu. If I do 'attach' (top RHS) it appears, but if I then click Add Attachment the files screen 'blinks' and if I click 'send' it asks 'did you forget an attachment' If I do PrtSc (or windows icon and PrtSc, depending on the advice received!!) the same things happens 'did you forget' I have answered 'no, send now' to send this, sorry, further confusion. Barry On 28/08/2023 12:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote: That's mostly my fault on the 'administrato' vs. 'administator' issue. But I only kept typing that because Barry reported a file path at one point with that spelling, and I wasn't certain of a possible different language in use, so I didn't correct it. If Barry transcribed the file path instead of copy/pasting it, that would explain the spelling. As for permissions, I'm not even concerned about root/admin vs. not but simply one user trying to save into another's file tree. That alone would most likely return a permissions error message. It seems Barry is logging in regularly under an account with that name, but GnuCash is opening a file stored under another user. (at some point that had to be done manually via File > Open, or since this is Windows, perhaps navigating to that other user and double-clicking the file - still manual and intentional) Why the file is there instead of the regular user account, I don't know. But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, fixing the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to clean up the multiple file/backup file apparent mess. Regards, Adrien On 8/28/23 4:14 AM, Maf. King wrote: I also note, and it may be a typo by Barry, but the user often being called the "Administrator" account by some people on the list has been listed in a file path by Barry more than once as "administrato" What I'm saying is that there is no certainty that one account is or is not a "root" operator with whatever extra rights or not. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] csv of invoice data
Hi again :) In addition to wanting to deal with some old invoices, I'm also wanting to generate a csv of invoice data. There's this post a few years back, but I feel there must be better. I've discovered the page on 'ledger-cli': https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ledger-CLI - which seems complicated (perhaps not) but, I'm using a sqlite as a back-end anyway. It says here: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Published_tools That bad things will happen if accessing the GnuCash data outside of GnuCash - but, one of the reasons for switching to sqlite a while back was accessing the db to pull things out - and no harm can be done if the db is accessed read-only, can it? Further down the page there's some links to export invoice data under 'Export invoices' - the GIP invoice printer says something about a csv template: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-June/025615.html I've set up access to the db via unixodbc and from there opened it in LO Base - but having got there, I got to wondering if there's an easier way to get a csv of invoice data? Thanks -- Morgan Read Grande Bretagne Em: OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
Maf, With regards to Nigel's comment, over the past month and a half, there have been well over a hundred messages sprinkled across eight different threads that seek to address the situation. At some point, it would seem that the problems cannot be solved through this venue. For me, that was about 40-50 messages ago. David T. On Aug 28, 2023, 2:02 PM, at 2:02 PM, "Maf. King" wrote: >On Monday, 28 August 2023 11:44:54 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, >fixing >> the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to clean >up >> the multiple file/backup file apparent mess. > > >+1. > >get everything RW and into a folder in the "Barry" tree. find the >most >recently changed file(s) and go from there (in a new folder) with the >save >issue. then Barry will have to clean up the inevitable missing txns >that >were made in backup files only. > >@Nigel Stapley. ISTR the user Mahon Finbar has been on the list for >years, >only occasionally having problems which I think have been solved in the >past >quite swiflty or easliy (or not). I think he is having genuine >problems >just now. However, I agree that the problems as presented seem >somewhat wider >than just GC. > >Maf. > > > > >___ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >- >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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] moving unpaid invoices between businesses?
I have a conundrum - I have historic unpaid invoices in one business and would like to transfer them to another business. Both conceptually, how should I go about this, and practically how should I go about this with two sets of gnucash accounts? I thought of issuing credit notes against the invoices in the business I'm transferring from and then reissue them in the business I'm transferring to - but, then that might let the recalcitrant debtors off the hook. It seems like I'm selling the debt to the new business - so, similar to selling the invoices to a debt collection service, perhaps? That would mean issuing new invoices from the old business to the new business - but then, what are the new invoices for, the old invoices... This makes my head hurt; it must have been done before. Many thanks. Assume this is the year 1950 and so you are keeping your books the way they did back then, pen and ink on accounting ruled paper. How would you record this transaction? Assuming you had that clearly laid out, what difficulties are you having doing that using gnucash And yes I agree, similar to selling a receivable to a factor or debt collection service. The fact that you might be the owner of both is irrelevant. However the state/condition of the first business might be relevant. The state of CONTESTED invoices when a business id closing down or in bankruptcy proceedings will probably differ jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Michael D Novack ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] moving unpaid invoices between businesses?
Hello Folks, I have a conundrum - I have historic unpaid invoices in one business and would like to transfer them to another business. Both conceptually, how should I go about this, and practically how should I go about this with two sets of gnucash accounts? I thought of issuing credit notes against the invoices in the business I'm transferring from and then reissue them in the business I'm transferring to - but, then that might let the recalcitrant debtors off the hook. It seems like I'm selling the debt to the new business - so, similar to selling the invoices to a debt collection service, perhaps? That would mean issuing new invoices from the old business to the new business - but then, what are the new invoices for, the old invoices... This makes my head hurt; it must have been done before. Many thanks. -- Morgan Read Grande Bretagne Em: OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
On Monday, 28 August 2023 11:44:54 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: > But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, fixing > the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to clean up > the multiple file/backup file apparent mess. +1. get everything RW and into a folder in the "Barry" tree. find the most recently changed file(s) and go from there (in a new folder) with the save issue. then Barry will have to clean up the inevitable missing txns that were made in backup files only. @Nigel Stapley. ISTR the user Mahon Finbar has been on the list for years, only occasionally having problems which I think have been solved in the past quite swiflty or easliy (or not). I think he is having genuine problems just now. However, I agree that the problems as presented seem somewhat wider than just GC. Maf. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
That's mostly my fault on the 'administrato' vs. 'administator' issue. But I only kept typing that because Barry reported a file path at one point with that spelling, and I wasn't certain of a possible different language in use, so I didn't correct it. If Barry transcribed the file path instead of copy/pasting it, that would explain the spelling. As for permissions, I'm not even concerned about root/admin vs. not but simply one user trying to save into another's file tree. That alone would most likely return a permissions error message. It seems Barry is logging in regularly under an account with that name, but GnuCash is opening a file stored under another user. (at some point that had to be done manually via File > Open, or since this is Windows, perhaps navigating to that other user and double-clicking the file - still manual and intentional) Why the file is there instead of the regular user account, I don't know. But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, fixing the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to clean up the multiple file/backup file apparent mess. Regards, Adrien On 8/28/23 4:14 AM, Maf. King wrote: I also note, and it may be a typo by Barry, but the user often being called the "Administrator" account by some people on the list has been listed in a file path by Barry more than once as "administrato" What I'm saying is that there is no certainty that one account is or is not a "root" operator with whatever extra rights or not. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash
I'm not disagreeing. I think there is a language barrier at play though. It appears that 'attachments' as a skill has been resolved, so maybe progress is possible. We'll find out soon enough. Regards, Adrien On 8/28/23 4:32 AM, Nigel Stapley wrote: As a watcher of this list might I suggest you good folk call a halt. I suggest to OP that he takes a basic course in managing his computer with Windows. Someone who doesn't appear to understand what is meant by "logging in" needs assistance way beyond the remit of this list. Although increasingly it looks like a wind-up to me! ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash
On 8/28/23 3:40 AM, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: OK, as I answered earlier on this thread, today, I use Thunderbird as my email software. I use it as a specific application. Sorry, I must have missed that message. Since you use Thunderbird, there is a clear 'Attach' button in the top right of every compose window with a preceding paperclip icon. Use that to attach screenshots. Do NOT copy/paste images into a reply. They will be removed and no one will see them. ONLY use the 'Attach' button. BTW my issues with sending attachments starts with file manage and specifically with gnu files, don't know why. No one here has asked you to attach any gnucash files that I recall. We've only been requesting screenshots, which are images. I don't know why you keep thinking you need to send us your personal data files. You do not need to do so. Regards, Adrien ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash
+1 David T. On Aug 28, 2023, 12:34 PM, at 12:34 PM, Nigel Stapley wrote: >As a watcher of this list might I suggest you good folk call a halt. I >suggest to OP that he takes a basic course in managing his computer >with >Windows. Someone who doesn't appear to understand what is meant by >"logging >in" needs assistance way beyond the remit of this list. Although >increasingly it looks like a wind-up to me! >Nigel > >On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 09:41, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user < >gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> OK, as I answered earlier on this thread, today, I use Thunderbird as >my >> email software. I use it as a specific application. >> >> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" >> >> BTW my issues with sending attachments starts with file manage and >> specifically with gnu files, don't know why. >> >> I also, reluctantly, use Gmail because I am 'named' by Google and >cannot >> send to gmail addresses except via gmail. If anybody knows how to >become >> a 'good boy' with Googleplease tell me how. >> >> Barry >> >> On 28/08/2023 00:40, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> > I specifically asked that question, either higher up in this >thread, >> > or in another related thread. (the very fact there are multiple >> > threads on this subject, at least 5 by my current count, is another >> > topic of discussion entirely) >> > >> > Good to know David that you managed to discern as much. >> > >> > Barry, please respond and confirm, but specifically, don't just >> > confirm if you use a Gmail interface (it appears some times that >your >> > e-mail origination is *not* Gmail) but confirm what APP you use to >> > access and send e-mail. That is: do you log into an e-mail website, >or >> > do you have a separate 'Mail' application you use. And in each >case, >> > WHAT specifically do you use. (that is, what is the EXACT URL of >the >> > website you use to access e-mail, or what is the actual name of the >> > e-mail app you use if not web-based) >> > >> > Regards, >> > Adrien >> > >> > On 8/27/23 2:17 PM, David Carlson wrote: >> >> Ken, >> >> >> >> I checked one of Barry's messages and found that it was fent from >a >> >> gmail >> >> server, so I assumed that he is using Gmail. >> > >> > ___ >> > gnucash-user mailing list >> > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> > - >> > 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 >> - >> 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 >- >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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash
As a watcher of this list might I suggest you good folk call a halt. I suggest to OP that he takes a basic course in managing his computer with Windows. Someone who doesn't appear to understand what is meant by "logging in" needs assistance way beyond the remit of this list. Although increasingly it looks like a wind-up to me! Nigel On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 09:41, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > OK, as I answered earlier on this thread, today, I use Thunderbird as my > email software. I use it as a specific application. > > "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" > > BTW my issues with sending attachments starts with file manage and > specifically with gnu files, don't know why. > > I also, reluctantly, use Gmail because I am 'named' by Google and cannot > send to gmail addresses except via gmail. If anybody knows how to become > a 'good boy' with Googleplease tell me how. > > Barry > > On 28/08/2023 00:40, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > I specifically asked that question, either higher up in this thread, > > or in another related thread. (the very fact there are multiple > > threads on this subject, at least 5 by my current count, is another > > topic of discussion entirely) > > > > Good to know David that you managed to discern as much. > > > > Barry, please respond and confirm, but specifically, don't just > > confirm if you use a Gmail interface (it appears some times that your > > e-mail origination is *not* Gmail) but confirm what APP you use to > > access and send e-mail. That is: do you log into an e-mail website, or > > do you have a separate 'Mail' application you use. And in each case, > > WHAT specifically do you use. (that is, what is the EXACT URL of the > > website you use to access e-mail, or what is the actual name of the > > e-mail app you use if not web-based) > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > On 8/27/23 2:17 PM, David Carlson wrote: > >> Ken, > >> > >> I checked one of Barry's messages and found that it was fent from a > >> gmail > >> server, so I assumed that he is using Gmail. > > > > ___ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > - > > 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 > - > 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Issues with gnucash files
On Monday, 28 August 2023 00:14:09 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > > No one ever requested this, I even said in a prior post to Barry specifically *never* to send his "production" GC file(s) to the list. I also note, and it may be a typo by Barry, but the user often being called the "Administrator" account by some people on the list has been listed in a file path by Barry more than once as "administrato" What I'm saying is that there is no certainty that one account is or is not a "root" operator with whatever extra rights or not. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash
OK, as I answered earlier on this thread, today, I use Thunderbird as my email software. I use it as a specific application. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" BTW my issues with sending attachments starts with file manage and specifically with gnu files, don't know why. I also, reluctantly, use Gmail because I am 'named' by Google and cannot send to gmail addresses except via gmail. If anybody knows how to become a 'good boy' with Googleplease tell me how. Barry On 28/08/2023 00:40, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I specifically asked that question, either higher up in this thread, or in another related thread. (the very fact there are multiple threads on this subject, at least 5 by my current count, is another topic of discussion entirely) Good to know David that you managed to discern as much. Barry, please respond and confirm, but specifically, don't just confirm if you use a Gmail interface (it appears some times that your e-mail origination is *not* Gmail) but confirm what APP you use to access and send e-mail. That is: do you log into an e-mail website, or do you have a separate 'Mail' application you use. And in each case, WHAT specifically do you use. (that is, what is the EXACT URL of the website you use to access e-mail, or what is the actual name of the e-mail app you use if not web-based) Regards, Adrien On 8/27/23 2:17 PM, David Carlson wrote: Ken, I checked one of Barry's messages and found that it was fent from a gmail server, so I assumed that he is using Gmail. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash
Yes, good point. I use a combination of Mailwasher, a NZ originated app which pre-examines mails to dump garbage, and Thunderbird for mail. Thanks, Barry On 27/08/2023 19:00, kschneider bout-tyme.net wrote: David, Since not everyone on this list uses the same email client as you you may need to find out which client program Barry uses. I use the default email client on my iPad and have no ‘blue send button’ to push. Ken Schneider On Aug 27, 2023, at 11:59 AM, David Carlson wrote: Barry, When you are either sending a message or replying to a message in Gmail, there is a series of icons at the bottom next to the blue Send icon. The second one resembles a paper clip. To "attach" a file to your message click on the paper clip, then navigate to the folder containing the file that you want to attach and click on that file or those files. Note that if you hover over the paper clip icon it will say "Attach filles" That is the only way to make a file go all the way to the gnucash-user@gnucash.org maillist where others can see it. -- David Carlson ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - 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 - 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 - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
