Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread William Prescott
Since we're talking about backup strategies... I do an hourly backup to a local disk ((Time Machine) A backup to the cloud every 15 minutes (CrashPlan) And a clone to one of pair local disks every few days, alternating between them (SuperDuper) A few years ago, I had a failure of my working

Re: [GNC] Capital gains

2023-06-23 Thread john
> On Jun 23, 2023, at 11:44, Fred Tydeman wrote: > > If I sell a stock for a profit, I can think of two ways to record the > transaction. > > 1) Record the sale with the sell price. This results in less shares in > the stock > account, and more cash somewhere else; and two trending

[GNC] Capital gains

2023-06-23 Thread Fred Tydeman
If I sell a stock for a profit, I can think of two ways to record the transaction. 1) Record the sale with the sell price. This results in less shares in the stock account, and more cash somewhere else; and two trending transactions. This shows up as four splits. But, then, how

Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 6/23/2023 12:30 PM, William Prescott wrote: Are you asking about backing up the Gnucash application or the Gnucash data file. You definitely should back up the data file. The application is less critical because you can always reinstall it. However, I just backup everything. It is simpler

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote 1.56_02 Available for Evaluation

2023-06-23 Thread Kalpesh Patel
I'll give it a shot later today. I have not intentionally removed/deleted anything thus far so the source build should still be sitting in the directory. -Original Message- From: Bruce Schuck Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 12:35 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Cc: Kalpesh Patel

Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread Steve Butler
James, only you can determine what is important enough to warrant a backup. However, my philosophy is that everything I put on my computer, no matter how trivial, needs to be on a backup of some kind. So I look for backup strategies that get everything. That way I don't have to worry about

Re: [GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread William Prescott
Are you asking about backing up the Gnucash application or the Gnucash data file. You definitely should back up the data file. The application is less critical because you can always reinstall it. However, I just backup everything. It is simpler and safer than picking and choosing what to

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote 1.56_02 Available for Evaluation

2023-06-23 Thread Bruce Schuck
On 6/22/23 18:47 -0700, Bruce Schuck wrote: Assuming the F::Q 1.56_02 build files still exist in your C:\Strawberry\cpan\build directory, trying the stockdump.pl example script as I did would help. If there is no Finance-Quote-1.56_02-? directory in C:\Strawberry\cpan\build (-? could be -0,

[GNC] Not getting any emails

2023-06-23 Thread James Baxter via gnucash-user
This is James Baxter and I am not getting an updates. One thing I am looking at is. I was doing a backup every time I do something on my laptop.  I need to know. Do I need to backup gnucash. ThanksJames Baxter  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ___