Re: [GNC] Can't get v3.8 to work, Nor generate Expense Over Time Report on v2.6.21

2020-02-25 Thread David Cousens
Leo, There were changes in the storage locations of configuration files between 2.6 and 3.x described on this page on the wiki (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations). This would affect stored reports but I don't think it should have affected the default reports. GnuCash 3.x

Re: [GNC] Can't get v3.8 to work, Nor generate Expense Over Time Report on v2.6.21

2020-02-25 Thread LEO BOLTA
Thanks, I was not aware of the "Quit" feature and closing the program down properly has now stopped that error message from appearing on subsequent start-ups.  However, the program will still not generate the "Expense Over Time or Expense Bar Chart" report.  It will generate a page with this

Re: [GNC] Can't get v3.8 to work, Nor generate Expense Over Time Report on v2.6.21

2020-02-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:19:01 + (UTC) LEO BOLTA wrote: > > Greetings, > I could not get the latest 3.8 update to work at all, so had to uninstall and > go back to the earlier stable version of 2.6.21.  Unfortunately, I don't > recall the version that I was using before trying to upgrade

Re: [GNC] How to managing budget in gnucash ?

2020-02-25 Thread David Cousens
Long Under the top level account structure of Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Income, Expenses you can create any account names you like or need to so having Expense accounts named Needs or Wants with whatever substructure you desire underneath that is no major problem. You will just need to

Re: [GNC] How to managing budget in gnucash ?

2020-02-25 Thread Stu Perlman
This is probably not the answer that you are looking for, but I'm new to gnucash and have also been trying to make the included budgeting features work for me. I'm a database guy at heart so after a few weeks of working with the included budget tools, I set up a MySql backend. Subsequent to

[GNC] Can't get v3.8 to work, Nor generate Expense Over Time Report on v2.6.21

2020-02-25 Thread LEO BOLTA
Greetings, I could not get the latest 3.8 update to work at all, so had to uninstall and go back to the earlier stable version of 2.6.21.  Unfortunately, I don't recall the version that I was using before trying to upgrade to the latest but I believe it was possibly 2.6.18?  The version 2.6.21

[GNC] How to managing budget in gnucash ?

2020-02-25 Thread Long
Hello guys, i'm not accounting, and do not have any experience about managing budget, included using gnucash's budget. Now, i'm following 50/30/20 budgeting rule, and i wanna create a budget by that way. But the problems here, I assume that i have 10.000, and 5000 (50%) for "Needs" Budget, 3000