Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 20:17, Steve Cohen wrote: > On 2/5/19 2:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > GTK3 as default rather than GTK2. I think those scroll bars first > > appeared there but they seem to be becoming as fashionable as useless > > 'antique' bathroom sinks. > > > > While I appreciate and

Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 17:22, Bucky Carr wrote: > > > I've noticed that exact behavior in many other Windows programs as > well. Definitely annoying. > We are not talking about Windows programs are we? Colin > > > On 2/5/2019 9:53 AM, Steve Cohen wrote: > > For two years something seemed not

Re: [GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

2019-02-05 Thread Colin Law
I am not seeing any problems on Ubuntu 18.10 running GC 3.4. Confused by the fact you say you are running 3.900 as I think 3.4 is the latest. Are you running the standard (Gnome) version of Ubuntu? Are you using X or Wayland? That should be selectable from logon screen. I am running X. Colin

Re: [GNC] How to change size of register in Gnucash 3.4

2019-02-05 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 05:54, Liz wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:17:16 +1100 > Liz wrote: > > > Debian Linux > > Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) > > > > I had the registers set so that I could open 4 without overlapping on > > my screen. > > With Gnucash 3.4 they all got wider and now take up more

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

2019-02-04 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 06:53, Jamestk wrote: > Yup, I can see the button - next time i will try the menu selection for > postpone, it's no biggie as I rarely use it, only when getting tired and > start making mistakes. > It is easy to test if it is still working, even if it is not time for a

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

2019-02-03 Thread Colin Law
You might find the postpone button is off the right hand side. Make the window a bit bigger to see it. For me it works as it should (remembering reconciled items) as does the menu selection. I can't explain why it is not functioning correctly for you. Perhaps it is a Windows thing. Are you

Re: [GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

2019-02-03 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 at 15:01, Jamestk wrote: > > Ira me again, this seems to be happening on v3.4 > > Changes made by ticking entries are no longer saved after opting to > postpone, anyone else noticed this? It's ok for me with v3.4 on Ubuntu. Are you remembering to save after postponing (if you

Re: [GNC] undo needed, was Re: Reconciliation is not adding up correctly

2019-02-01 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 10:25, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Often the justification for not having undo in accounting software is > security. Maybe an option to edit the starting balance? > > I know that it is there to manage the reconciliation process, but errors > in transaction entries can modify

Re: [GNC] undo needed, was Re: Reconciliation is not adding up correctly

2019-01-31 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 09:08, Elmar wrote: > > Open simultaneously - that sounds dangerous to my galloping senility :) > Normally I run into this when I have been working on the file for an > hour or so, having done some 20 or 30 operations e.g. end of month > multiple bank statement reconciles,

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what t

2019-01-30 Thread Colin Law
problems, as I had also > >> experienced with Quicken and sorted them at year end. > >> > >> The Opening Balance in the latest iteration of reconcile was > >> what I showed in the screen grab a while back - > >> > >>

Re: [GNC] v 3.2.1 reconcile window

2019-01-29 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 18:53, Jamestk wrote: > > > > Thanks, with you now. > > Just downloaded v3.4, it's probably nothing but maybe worth flagging up- > Virus Total flags the exe file as - suspicious.low.ml.score - by Trapmine > engine. > > Also, has anyone noticed the second page which pops up

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-29 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 11:24, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > OK, let's go again. > > 1. I started using GNUCash with effect from 1.1.2018 > > 2. For this particular a/c the figure €3986.22 is the balance in the a/c, > taken from the bank statement on 28.12.2017, after the last transaction on > that

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Colin Law
There is also the issue that at one point he seemed to suggest this was the first reconcile, then he said he didn't do any reconciles till December. The only way we will understand what is going on is if he is clearer on exactly what he has done. Colin On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 14:45, David T. via

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-28 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 10:23, Finbar Mahon wrote: > ... > > Aha, maybe there is another issue. When I do, as you suggested, View > > Filter By > Status > Reconciled I get nothing!! even when I just chose > 'reconcile' or 'select all' > On the Date tab (of View > Filter By) have you got Show

Re: [GNC] Switching between 2 bank accounts

2019-01-28 Thread Colin Law
If you mean you have lost the Accounts tab that shows all the accounts then do View > New Accounts Page Colin On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 06:20, Joanne Paradise wrote: > > I just finished my 2018 year end reports for my personal bank account. I > needed to add a 2nd bank account. After creating

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 10:01, Fred Bone wrote: > > On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 21:50, Colin Law said: > > > In the original message, in the html section, the image is > > > > > height="00145" border="0"> > > >

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-27 Thread Colin Law
ro. Then the Opening Balance in the account should match the Starting Balance on your bank statement so you can reconcile that one. Colin > Finbar > On 26/01/2019 18:12, Colin Law wrote: > > Do the starting and ending balances shown there match the ones on the bank > statement yo

Re: [GNC] Printer Problems

2019-01-27 Thread Colin Law
And me, someone who doesn't understand how support mailing lists are supposed to work I think. Coin On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 06:58, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Hmm... > > A nearly identical message was posted by that address an hour later to the > list, then about an hour after that, I get one

Re: [GNC] Postponing reconciliation-ending balance

2019-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 06:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > You can also right-click a transaction in the reconciliation window and get > those same functions. Also double click the transaction in the reconcile window takes you to it in the register (or at least it does on Ubuntu). Colin

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-26 Thread Colin Law
attaching and just using img.ur) > > I wonder now if this is a failing of Mail.app or my ISP. > > Wonderful, yet another rabbit hole to dive down...but thanks for the compass > directions > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jan 26, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Colin Law wrote: &g

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-26 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 18:16, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Strange how the OP’s post doesn’t show the screenshot, but it is visible in > your reply... I can see it in the original in gmail web i/f, but I am not sure how it is included. My reply seems to have converted it to an attached image.

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-26 Thread Colin Law
Do the starting and ending balances shown there match the ones on the bank statement you are reconciling against? Colin On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 11:51, Finbar Mahon wrote: > I don't understand where you are seeing the figures you describe. Can > you post a screenshot showing it? > > This what I

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-24 Thread Colin Law
s that might cause an opening > balance not to match. > > David T. > > On January 24, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:59, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > > > I understand the logic of what you describe, but, I started using > > GNUCa

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation is not adding up correctly - what to do??

2019-01-24 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 13:59, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > I understand the logic of what you describe, but, I started using > GNUCash with effect from 1.1.2018. > > The opening balance on the bank statement for one of the asset a/c was > €3,986.22 and the ending balance on 16.2.2018 was €5,117.09 > >

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Debian package

2019-01-22 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 15:34, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Looks like the dependency list from the mainline is missing a few > entries. I'll check that out. > > Also, here are the files for the debian folder used in the build. Any > suggestions or corrections would be appreciated. Wondering if

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Debian package

2019-01-22 Thread Colin Law
Sorry for delay, been otherwise engaged. On a live Ubuntu 18.10 session running off the install image I started by attempting to install gnucash_3.4_amd64.deb ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i Downloads/gnucash_3.4_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package gnucash. (Reading database ...

Re: [GNC] Date Completion - sliding 12 month window

2019-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 19:20, Parke wrote: > ... > Come 2020, I may try switching to Lubuntu 20.04. I don't think that will help, I think it will still need dconf, though I may be wrong. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] dpkg-builder

2019-01-20 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 19:03, Mechtilde wrote: > > Hello > > unter debian Buster you can use GnuCash version 3.4 from the Debian repo. Yes, but not in Ubuntu 18.10. Colin > > Kind regards > > > -- > Mechtilde Stehmann > ## Apache OpenOffice > ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows >

Re: [GNC] Formatting reply posts

2019-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, 03:32 David Carlson Unfortunately, gmail seems to force me into top posting by opening up my > reply with the previous text at the bottom an d hidden below three dots. > It doesn't help, I agree, particularly with deleting sections of the post. It is easy enough to insert

Re: [GNC] Formatting reply posts (Re: Copy a month's budget)

2019-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 21:15, aeg via gnucash-user wrote: > > It's good to see that the formatting issue is being addressed and my > suggestion is as follows... >- Italicise all quoted text from previous contributors. Tricky for those that do not want (or cannot) use html formatting. Also

Re: [GNC] Copy a month's budget

2019-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 15:44, Tommy Trussell wrote: > ... > In my opinion, trimming the quotations of the discussion, then adding > wisdom (such as it may be) to the end of the thread is the kindest of all, > because (1) everyone knows exactly what points are being addressed, and (2) > It

Re: [GNC] Present Reconcile Is Showing Previous Reconciled Items UnReconciled

2019-01-11 Thread Colin Law
You should get a warning if you edit a reconciled transaction. If you aren't getting that then that probably means you accepted the warning at some point and selected don't tell me again. If you want to re-enable it then select Actions > Reset Warnings. Colin On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 02:15, Matt

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-09 Thread Colin Law
d eject it. > > Sorry this just won’t work for me. > > Ruth Mazur > > > > > > On Jan 3, 2019, at 1:16 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 07:10, Ruth L. Mazur > wrote: > >> > >> I have downloaded GnuCash 3.4-Intel to

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 06:37, DaveW wrote: > ... > > 1. The commands work equally for 18.04 and 18.10? > Yes, I believe so, they may not all be necessary on 18.04 but they won't do any harm. > > 2. I currently have Gnucash 3.2 loaded and working. It >

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:52, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > I am trying to get a better deb via Launchpad were we can put up a ppa > for folks to point to. Probably name it "gnucash-daily", although I > don't see it changing daily but as commits are made to the maint branch. > >From my personal

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 10:46, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > See my replies in this thread on -devel starting here: > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2019-January/043146.html Is not that referring to the Disc deb file, not the one built by Stephen

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 09:23, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Yes, on a clean installation of 18.10. But as I experienced with an > upgrade from Xenial (via Bionic first) GnuCash keeps wanting to look for > older versions of libboost for some reason and trying to

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 05:15, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > 18.04, I’ve tested them on 18.10, but there is a larger dependency mess. There is no dependency hell installing from Stephen's deb on 18.10 (

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-08 Thread Colin Law
the terminal using Ctrl-Shift-C Colin On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 23:41, DaveW wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 07:31:47 +0000 > Colin Law wrote: > > > Just to clarify a bit, after installing you have to tell the update > > manager not to replace it with the original version

Re: [GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

2019-01-06 Thread Colin Law
Just to clarify a bit, after installing you have to tell the update manager not to replace it with the original version again, as described in that thread, Colin On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 00:04, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > On 1/6/19 3:40 PM, DaveW wrote: > > Ubuntu 18.04. I am hoping to upgrade

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Launchpad

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
> > On 1/3/19 1:34 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 21:28, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > >> mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu > >> <http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnucash/gnucash_3.4-1_amd64.deb> > >> > >> Colin, do you

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Launchpad

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 21:28, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu > > > Colin, do you have a machine on which this can be tested? Yes, on Ubuntu 18.10. Note that I think this is intended for

Re: [GNC] GnuCash won't open

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 07:10, Ruth L. Mazur wrote: > > I have downloaded GnuCash 3.4-Intel to my Mac OS10.11.6 a dozen times but I > can not get it to open. For Privacy I’m set to sites that I visit. Once I > set it to Anyone and that didn’t work either. Did you carefully follow the

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-03 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 23:12, nvsoar wrote: > ... > Do you think that 'sudo apt -f install' would work to get the libboost > packages? No, as Liz said that would only help if the deb said that it needs those packages, in which case dpkg would have complained that they were not installed. They

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-02 Thread Colin Law
I have installed 3.4 onto another Ubuntu 18.10 and can confirm Tim Kallmer's findings as to the additional packages that need to be installed. I have noticed one other slight complication, that Ubuntu seems to think that the version from the deb (3.4-0-1) is earlier than the version from the repo

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread Colin Law
> directory Looks like it also needs sudo apt install libboost-locale1.65.1 I imagine I already have that installed but can't check at this moment. Colin > > the program never opens, unless i remove and reinstall 3.3. > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:36 PM Colin Law wrote: >>

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread Colin Law
using Ctrl-Shift-C Colin > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 4:12 AM Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:58, Tim Kallmer wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > the .deb package did not work for me on Ubuntu 18.10 >> >> As I posted earlier, for

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2019-01-01 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:58, Tim Kallmer wrote: > > > > > the .deb package did not work for me on Ubuntu 18.10 As I posted earlier, for ubuntu 18.10 do sudo apt install libboost-regex1.65.1 Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: [GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 13:57, Les wrote: > > Thanks for the great work Steve. > > I am currently using Linux Mint 18.2 and GC 2.6.17. I am wondering if > this .deb will run on my system, or will I have to update Linux MInt to > 19.0? There shouldn't be any danger trying it, though obviously

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 11:31, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Another way to figure out where your current data file is stored: > * Open GnuCash > * Click on the File menu > * You will see a list of last-used files between the "Properties" and the > "Close" menu items > * Hover with your mouse pointer

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 10:06, Colin Law wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 20:33, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > > > For those interested in a deb file but not willing to compile yourself: > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QWfY --> > >

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 20:33, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > For those interested in a deb file but not willing to compile yourself: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QWfY --> > gnucash_3.4-0-1_amd64.deb I am trying this on Ubuntu 18.10 and when running it I get error

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-31 Thread Colin Law
; > TIA for any advice. > > Barry > > On 30/12/2018 11:50, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Sorry, I meant doing the first option (as I should have been:-[) > > before updating to 3.3. > > > > Thanks for the information. I'll have a look at the wiki. > > > &g

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.4 Released

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 20:08, John Ralls wrote: > > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.4, the fifth release of the > 3.x stable release series. Excellent, thanks John and to the rest of the team. Colin > > Changes > > Between 3.3 and 3.4, the following bugfixes were

Re: [GNC] Updating advice

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 09:49, Finbar Mahon wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to do a backup of the current installation as of 31.12.2018 and > install the latest version (3.3?) from 1.1.2019. First is this a > worthwhile action and is there any particular process I should follow? I > have looked

Re: [GNC] Backspace key stops working

2018-12-30 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 03:52, Bruce Lang wrote: > > Me too > > Issue is when I enter a new transaction. It auto-fills the previous > similar transaction which is what I want but when I go to edit the > details - let's say I want to change a word using Shift-Back (or > Forward) arrow, it

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-28 Thread Colin Law
It is unfortunate that the original poster has not considered it appropriate to respond to the help offered here. Colin On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 05:03, Jennym <55.jennifer.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I only started using GNUCash last April for simple, personal accounting, so > I'm at the

Re: [GNC] .deb package

2018-12-27 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 16:19, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: > > Hey everyone, the event I've been waiting for just happened. > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1012613/gnucash-133-2-migrated-to-testi > ng/ > > GunCash 3.3-2 was just migrated to Debian testing. It was blocked for a > long time because

Re: [GNC] GNUCash fails to start on Windows 10 after windows update

2018-12-25 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 08:18, luca wrote: > > Hello everyone, I have the same issue that GnuCash won't start for me anymore > after receiving a Windows update. > > It does not work on one of my devices anymore (Windows Version > 10.0.17763.195) [I even tried reinstalling Windows on that device]

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-25 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 22:39, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > On 12/24/2018 3:45 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > > I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or > > report on only transactions within a date range if one wants so I > > don't s

Re: [GNC] Basic Question (I hope) - End of Year Procedure

2018-12-24 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 at 05:03, Jennym <55.jennifer.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > So what I'd like to do: Retain all of 2018 accounts (having them to hand > for easy access), but have them zeroed for 2019. I don't do this, for me there is no point. It is possible to view or report on only

Re: [GNC] XML File

2018-12-17 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 21:33, Jack Lockard wrote: > > What is GC? GnuCash Colin > > -Original Message----- > From: Colin Law > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 4:30 PM > To: jelock...@outlook.com > Cc: gnucash-user > Subject: Re: [GNC] XML File > > O

Re: [GNC] XML File

2018-12-17 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 21:15, Jack Lockard wrote: > > Is there any way to convert a compressed XML file back to an uncompressed one? Alternatively you can open it in GC, Change the GC settings to not compress the file, and Save As. Colin ___

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-04 Thread Colin Law
If it were an sqlite file then I don't think the Save button would ever be enabled. Colin On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 16:39, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > If you try to open the file with a text editor (I used Atom, because TextEdit > complained about something wrong with UTF-8 in the file) you will

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-02 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 18:01, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > The "save" option did get focus once I made a change and saved the file. > > However, the file name doesn't look right. See below. It is using the name > that I created when I used "save as" though I used "save" but the log file

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-02 Thread Colin Law
(you can see the file name in the top bar) and then the Save button should be back to normal. Colin > > Thanks, > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:53 AM Colin Law wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 16:40, Lorrie Laskey wrote: >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >&

Re: [GNC] How to save Gnucash and Lock file issues

2018-12-02 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 16:40, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > > Hi all, > > This message is for two topics. If you respond, please either select one > topic or divide the message by topic to make it easier for me to follow the > messages. > > #1 Saving > I don't understand how to save Gnucash or properly

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-12-01 Thread Colin Law
Bug opened https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796961 Colin On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 11:51, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 12:28:54 CET schreef Colin Law: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:29, Colin Law wrote: > > > Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucas

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-12-01 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 11:51, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 12:28:54 CET schreef Colin Law: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:29, Colin Law wrote: > > > Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796724 and > > > add the above not

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-12-01 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 20:29, Colin Law wrote: > > Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796724 and > add the above notes to it? Could I have some direction on this please? Reopen the above bug or open a new one? Thanks Colin > > Colin > On Sat, 13

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 15:31, Robert Heller wrote: > ... > He is moving *from* a MS-Windows machine *to* an iMac. Oh yes, sorry, senile decay advancing at an ever increasing rate it appears. Now it seems I can't even read a few words without getting it wrong. Colin

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 14:57, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > > > I hope you are going to be running Linux on the new machine. > > > > Colin > > Why

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 12:40, Richard Jones wrote: > > Colin > Thanks for your reply. > Yes, I would do as you say - keep the existing system running, until the new > one was proved. > The risk I see is spending money on a new machine and then not being able to > use this application on it. >

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 10:49, Richard Jones wrote: > > Thank you Robert, Michael, Adrien and John for taking the time and trouble > to answer and explain. > This migration would require very careful planning, testing and a backup > plan if things go wrong. I will have to think hard as to whether

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

2018-11-26 Thread Colin Law
y locations are somewhere under /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op maandag 26 november 2018 17:49:35 CET schreef Colin Law: > > I have tried removing ~/.local/share/gnucash but that didn't make any > > difference > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

2018-11-26 Thread Colin Law
I have tried removing ~/.local/share/gnucash but that didn't make any difference On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 09:55, Colin Law wrote: > > I have been using version 3.3 installed from the Ubuntu repository on > Ubuntu 18.10 for some weeks. Suddenly today it will not open. > When I

[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

2018-11-26 Thread Colin Law
I have been using version 3.3 installed from the Ubuntu repository on Ubuntu 18.10 for some weeks. Suddenly today it will not open. When I run it from the command line I see the output below. The gnucash trace file is empty. Googling found similar problems during build and suggested renaming

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-18 Thread Colin Law
new 8.0 version used the old 5.6 port and vice versa (via > editing the my.ini config file) seems to have done the trick. > > Thanks! > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:21 AM Colin Law wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:52, Peter Holck >> wrote: >> > >&

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-18 Thread Colin Law
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:52, Peter Holck wrote: > > * 15:25:47 CRIT [GncDbiBackend::session_begin()] > Unable to connect to database 'gnucash' Please copy the list on replies, you sent this one just to me. On gmail use Reply All when replying. Are you able to connect to the server using

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-17 Thread Colin Law
found when you looked in the trace file. Colin > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 3:20 PM Colin Law wrote: >> >> Are you able to Save As mysql with the new server? >> Also have a look in the trace file and see what it says, often it will >> give more information in the case of

Re: [GNC] MySQL version update: GnuCash API recognize new MySQL database & tables?

2018-11-17 Thread Colin Law
Are you able to Save As mysql with the new server? Also have a look in the trace file and see what it says, often it will give more information in the case of db problems. Colin On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:07, Peter Holck wrote: > > I recently installed an updated version of MySQL Server (8.13) on

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 19:11, btrib wrote: > > So, I'm just trying to understand, I deactivate compression and this makes > the file openable as xml? It would be quicker to try it than ask, but yes. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Law
n Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 15:47, btrib wrote: > > True! ...however, text editor is unable to open the main data file. How can > the main file be manually accessed? In Edit > Preferences > General under Files clear the Compress Files checkbox. Then save it as xml and you will be able to edit it.

Re: [GNC] Below are my screen shots in .pdf format/previously they were .png files which did not go thru

2018-11-05 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 09:40, Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: > > Dear Geniuses, > > I primarily want to know how to get rid of this .LNK file and unlock my > gnucash program so that I can use it again. You do not need to get rid of it. Open Gnucash and close any warning messages you get.

Re: [GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work

2018-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 15:03, Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: > > Oh, Geert, I do so wish you were right. However, I think you missed the > sentence where I said that after the crash I unknowingly and unthinkingly and > quickly in order to restore my screen, I clicked on ‘Open Anyway’ and

Re: [GNC] V3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10 can't Save As over existing mysql database

2018-11-03 Thread Colin Law
Should I re-open https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796724 and add the above notes to it? Colin On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 10:18, Colin Law wrote: > > I have enabled the query log in mysql and when I attempt to save I first see > 2018-10-13T09:05:13.241000Z5 Connectroot@

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-01 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 08:23, Wm via gnucash-user wrote: > > On 31/10/2018 01:24, D via gnucash-user wrote: > > Check out https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup > > You should not point people to incorrect and misleading links Please point out the errors so it can be corrected. Colin > -- > Wm >

Re: [GNC] No longer able to reconcile register accounts

2018-10-29 Thread Colin Law
I am seeing similar problems in the UK running 3.3 on Ubuntu 18.10, from Ubuntu repo. The issue occurs if one tries to enter 28/10/18 in the statement date, which is why the '-' fails. Any other date is ok whether entered using t, +, -, the calendar, or entering manually via the keyboard. I see

Re: [GNC] Help please setting up savings account

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Law
I am not sure I understand what you mean by "add a savings account to the current checking account". Is you have a checking account and a savings account I would expect those to be separate accounts rather than one being in some way part of the other. Colin On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 19:35,

Re: [GNC] Preferences: editing transactions

2018-10-26 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 15:39, Alex via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Colin > > Thanks, that was the one. Except on my system it was Actions -> Reset > Oops, it is on mine too - typo. Colin ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] Preferences: editing transactions

2018-10-26 Thread Colin Law
Assuming you mean reconciled rather than saved then Edit > Reset Warnings. Colin On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 11:28, Alex via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hi All > > In the last week I must have answered a question incorrectly. > > For as long as I can remember if I edited a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 16:51, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Be sure to do a shutdown and power on cycle first on th 18.10. When? The last thing that the upgrade to 18.10 does is a reboot. > I lost > access to my home directory on power up (got a mount: bad address > message). > > I had to

Re: [GNC] Settings problem after update to 3.3 on Ubuntu - missing keys

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
u get any warnings when running that command ? Does it produce > errors if > you add --strict ? > > Geert > > Op donderdag 25 oktober 2018 15:36:48 CEST schreef Colin Law: > > Hi Geert > > > > I ran > > sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
; /home/colin/.caches/guile/2.0/ccache. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:06 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > This was an Ubuntu 18.04 machine with 2.16.9 installed from the Ubuntu > repo. I upgraded the machine to Ubuntu 18.10 and GC got upgraded to 3.3

Re: [GNC] Settings problem after update to 3.3 on Ubuntu - missing keys

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
That command should > be > run in the post-install phase by the package manager. I have no idea > though > exactly how this should be implemented in a deb package. > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op woensdag 24 oktober 2018 22:50:44 CEST schreef Colin Law: > > I have upda

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Law
u upgrading and using a GnuCash you’d built yourself > before upgrading? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Oct 24, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > Yes, that was the issue (two versions of boot-9.scm). Having checked > > dependencies and so on,

[GNC] Settings problem after update to 3.3 on Ubuntu - missing keys

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
I have updated a system from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 and gnucash has been automatically updated from version 2.6.19 to 3.3 from the Ubuntu repository. I noticed that I was not getting the alternating colours in the registers and when I went to Preferences > Register I can see that 'Use GnuCash

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
, Colin Law wrote: > Further to this I see I have two files ice-9/boot-9.scm > /usr/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/boot-9.scm > /usr/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/boot-9.scm > Could it be picking up the wrong one, or is that a red herring? > > Colin > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:57, Col

[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Law
Just upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10. This upgraded GC from 2.6.19 (at least I think it was 19) to 3.3 and now GC crashes immediately on startup. Starting in a terminal gives result below. There is nothing in the trace file. On another machine with a fresh install of 18.10 GC 3.3 runs fine so

Re: [GNC] Libboost_regex needed

2018-10-23 Thread Colin Law
I have not heard of any problems with encrypted drives on Ubuntu 18.04, did you ask on, for example, the Ubuntu Users list for help getting it sorted? Colin On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 16:49, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Not sure who maintains the Wiki for Ubuntu builds, but I had to install >

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