Re: [GNC] Question about OFX imports

2024-05-13 Thread Jean Laroche
, while avoiding a duplication (i.e. the second import would update the existing transaction instead of being skipped altogether). But I don't see a good reason to implement that at this point... Deleting the existing one achieves the same result for these rare cases. Jean On 5/13/24 3:12 PM

Re: [GNC] Question about OFX imports

2024-05-13 Thread Jean Laroche
though they're saved in the database). Jean On 5/13/24 2:50 PM, David Carlson wrote: Now it is my turn to ask a question. My bank recently had an issue with the description text for a few transactions that resulted in the transactions being reposted with corrected descriptions. Now I am trying

Re: [GNC] Import of CSV

2024-04-11 Thread Jean Laroche
import because nobody added the reconcile to it? If you have an option to use OFX rather than CSV, you live will be a bit simpler, but I'm imagining you already know that. Jean On 4/11/24 4:36 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Back on 3/11 I sent 2 emails about issues with imports. Neither received any

Re: [GNC] Trouble setting up online banking

2024-03-25 Thread Jean Laroche
ofxdirectconnect is dead or dying indeed. The only available solution at the moment is to go download your transactions in ofx format, then importing that into gnucash. That's what I've resorted to doing, much as I dislike it. Jean On 3/25/24 3:21 PM, Bryan B. wrote: I have been using Wells

Re: [GNC] Defining Keyboard shortcuts for Menu Functions

2024-03-07 Thread Jean L
You have a typo in your second line (missing > after Primary). I don't know whether that screws up the import of the file, or if the typo is only in your email, but that could be the reason it's not working? Jean On 3/7/2024 5:02 PM, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: Thanks Jean... I tr

Re: [GNC] Defining Keyboard shortcuts for Menu Functions

2024-03-06 Thread Jean Laroche
hift-o to import ofx). (gtk_accel_path "/gnc-plugin-ofx-actions/OfxImportAction" "o") Jean On 3/6/24 9:14 AM, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: Hi I've just spent 45 minutes searching the web, and GC docs for how to a new keyboard shortcut. The shortcut I want define would be to F

Re: [GNC] Looking how to automatically download transactions from Capital One

2024-02-16 Thread Jean Laroche
I don't think Capital One can be automatically downloaded. It used to support it a long while back, but not anymore. I have to go and download by hand. Jean P.S. Your signature is somewhat obnoxious/in your face. On 2/16/24 8:56 AM, Matatia Chetrit wrote: bs"d Hello. I looked for

Re: [GNC] Online Banking

2023-12-17 Thread Jean L
There's also this: https://github.com/reubano/csv2ofx I haven't tried it, just wanted to mention that sometimes you can find really great stuff on github, which isn't reported in a google search On 12/17/2023 11:52 AM, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote: I never got aqbanking to

Re: [GNC] Using GC for Property Management

2023-09-25 Thread Jean Laroche
"to those who don't know better" Bit eye roll there. On 9/25/23 12:40 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: ChatGPT cannot give you an answer. It is designed to spit out sentences that plausibly sound like a human answered your question. There is a universe of difference between the two. One

Re: [GNC] No longer able to import OFX

2023-09-24 Thread Jean Laroche
the available python based ofx libraries Jean On 9/24/23 9:18 AM, john wrote: On Sep 24, 2023, at 07:15, Mike St. Germaine wrote: Hello, At some point earlier in the year I started receiving the attached message when attempting to import an OFX from Citizens bank (the message is "fo

Re: [GNC] Where is config-user.scm supposed to be under Linux

2023-07-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
id H. Well, I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa) and GnuCash Version: 4.2 Build ID: 4.2+(2020-09-26) Finance::Quote: - It seems config-user.scm is nowhere on my machine. Yet Gnucash seems to work just fine. $ locate config-user.scm $ -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\

Re: [GNC] Importing data from QuickBooks Online

2023-07-03 Thread Jean L
interesting. Jean On 7/3/2023 8:59 AM, Tom Olin via gnucash-user wrote: [Resending to the list. Original reply went only to Jim.] Jim, Fair questions. Answers below, and I’ve attached the script itself which includes documentation which addresses some of the questions. I’ve reviewed all documentation

Re: [GNC] Using Plaid

2023-03-01 Thread Jean L
And now, vanguard apparently no longer offers OFX as a download option, just csv files. >:( hopefully this is temporary, but I'm not holding my breath. The entire download-you-data landscape for finances in the US is just broken Jean On 3/1/2023 2:51 AM, Steve Brown wr

Re: [GNC] Using Plaid

2023-02-28 Thread Jean Laroche
at the moment, unlike in Europe where there seem to be, I believe mandated by the EU. I wrote automated scripts to scrape my banks for the OFX files, but that's a royal pain in the butt, and it's not robust at all. Jean On 2/28/23 3:44 PM, Ben Pracht wrote: I read that disclaimer. It says to keep

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
Also, this https://github.com/jrwrigh/csv2cash Could be the answer to what you're trying to do? Jean On 1/7/2023 12:51 PM, Tim Rohrer wrote: On Jan 7, 2023, at 2:32 PM, Jean L wrote: OK so I found that GC fais to import this ofx because the account name is too long. This is probably

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
GC uses to represent your account tree. I.e., a tool to automatically create a GC account file from a csv export. Perhaps somebody's written that already? Jean On 1/7/2023 10:59 AM, Tim Rohrer wrote: Correct. And the errors and warnings I pasted earlier are logged. Linux GnuCash 4.11 Build

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
And you're saying that when you import this into a blank account, nothing shows up? On 1/7/2023 10:52 AM, Tim Rohrer wrote: Thanks, Jean. Here is the entire file (attached and pasted). For testing, I was simply trying to get one transaction to work first. DATA:OFXSGML ENCODING:UTF-8 0

Re: [GNC] OFX Requirements

2023-01-07 Thread Jean L
Can you post a small OFX file that's generated that way? I'll take a quick look. Jean On 1/7/2023 10:18 AM, Tim Rohrer wrote: I'm continuing my experimentation to migrate my Quicken for Mac data. I believe I'm on track for the investments, so I've switched back to regular accounts

Re: [GNC] Autofill on import OFX?

2022-12-31 Thread Jean L
afterward. If you select the account afterward the matcher does not get a chance to learn the correct association. J On 12/31/2022 1:06 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: Thanks for this Jean, Murugan, that's very helpful (and rather impressive!) Do I infer that I need to use the " right click o

Re: [GNC] Autofill on import OFX?

2022-12-31 Thread Jean L
not have noticed: if you right click on a transaction in the transaction matching window, you can edit various fields prior to the transaction being imported. There are no "rules", the way you describe them, in GC, as far as I know... Jean On 12/31/2022 10:20 AM, Simon Roberts wrote:

Re: [GNC] Matching error in OFX import

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
the latest version--I'm on 3.8, so I think I should upgrade it and try again.) On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 6:57 PM Jean L wrote: We might need a bit more info to give a useful answer. But just to be sure: - The FITID of the transactions in the OFX file are all different, right

Re: [GNC] Matching error in OFX import

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
We might need a bit more info to give a useful answer. But just to be sure: - The FITID of the transactions in the OFX file are all different, right? That's an absolute requirement, not just within a single OFX file, but from ofx to ofx, the FITID is supposed to identify one and only 1

Re: [GNC] OFX import date questions

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
action? On 12/30/2022 2:20 PM, Phyllis Bruce wrote: Jean and  Adrien, I use QFX and reconciling is a pain!  When I import and data from my bank and begin reconciliation I often find the GNC has ignored the existing unreconciled transactions and created new cleared ones. On Fri, Dec 30, 202

Re: [GNC] OFX import date questions

2022-12-30 Thread Jean L
I don't think you can "tweak" the OFX import. OFX import relies on an external library (ofxlib I think?). Are the dates way off? I've never noticed anything weird like that in my own OFX imports (which I do a lot of) the dates seem to always coincide. This *could* be a problem with the OFX

Re: [GNC] Chase OFXdirect connect - another one bites the dust

2022-10-06 Thread Jean Laroche
Any of you know whether something else is in the works to replace direct connect? Manual downloading can be a pain when you have many accounts in different institutions... J. On 10/6/22 9:46 AM, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote: As of today, aqbanking reports that

Re: [GNC] Lost 4 hours of data input

2022-07-22 Thread Jean Laroche
or longer because I won't turn it off altogether. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 2:36 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: Is the default not 5 minutes? One shouldn't lose more than 5 minutes of work in such a case. Regards, Adrien On 7/22/22 2:04 PM, Jean Laroche wrote: I

Re: [GNC] Lost 4 hours of data input

2022-07-22 Thread Jean Laroche
I fully agree. Does this mean that the default autosave should be changed to something more reasonable? On 7/22/22 11:46 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: It's too bad that the responses to "Gnucash has crashed and I lost X hours of work" are: 1. Save more often. 2. Don't use a cloud

Re: [GNC] Import is finding no matching transactions

2022-05-14 Thread Jean L
regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) On Sat, May 14, 2022, 14:20 Jean L wrote: Can you give us more details? Are you saying that GC does not show matching transactions, but does it at least show the imported transactions (and fails to find matches)? Note that the transaction dates have to match

Re: [GNC] Import is finding no matching transactions

2022-05-14 Thread Jean L
Can you give us more details? Are you saying that GC does not show matching transactions, but does it at least show the imported transactions (and fails to find matches)? Note that the transaction dates have to match (the imported transactions and the ones you have in your ledger) for them to

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

2022-05-04 Thread Jean L
with the --debug flag. J On 5/4/2022 8:23 PM, Peter Wu wrote: @Jean Laroche <mailto:rip...@gmail.com>, can you send some instructions on how to run the debug mode? I have another QFX file from BofA too.  It failed even after I remove CARDNUM, CARDNAME and MCC elements. I suspect there ar

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not

2022-05-04 Thread Jean Laroche
"/ stmt_fixed.qfx I'm not a sed guru, so maybe there's a better/more robust way to do it. But this should give you a temporary solution? Jean LibOFX ERROR: OpenSP parser: otherError (misc parse error): /var/folders/j6/7t8sg1vj4q97zhh9z5cdmxbm4rz935/T//libofxtmpcNQLhJ:39:13:E: element &qu

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

2022-05-04 Thread Jean Laroche
/more robust way to do it. But this should give you a temporary solution? Jean On 5/4/22 9:51 AM, Jean Laroche wrote: Running gnucash with --debug shows what the issue is. Removing the lines that contain the CARDNUM, CARDNAME and MCC elements makes the file import correctly. I'm not sur

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

2022-05-04 Thread Jean Laroche
Running gnucash with --debug shows what the issue is. Removing the lines that contain the CARDNUM, CARDNAME and MCC elements makes the file import correctly. I'm not sure why ofxlib does not just ignore the unrecognized elements, but that's the way it is. Perhaps file a bug with libofx? Jean

Re: [GNC] QFX file for Bank of American business account not invoking Import Matcher

2022-05-04 Thread Jean Laroche
I tried your OFX file, and the same happens for me, no matching dialog opens. I'll take a look and see if I can find out what's going on. Jean On 5/4/22 8:38 AM, Peter Wu wrote: Hi David C, It is all new transactions. If it is previously imported transaction, it would give a error dialog

Re: [GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

2022-04-29 Thread Jean L
Again: the "append" check mark in the import dialog appends notes from the OFX to the notes you put in instead of replacing them if 'u+c' is selected. On 4/29/2022 6:51 PM, Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user wrote: Gyle, I do this when I remember, especially with regard to checks. But I've

Re: [GNC] Feature Request/Workaround Info: Preserve "Notes" Field?

2022-04-29 Thread Jean L
There's check box "append" in the import  dialog that does what you're asking for... J. On 4/29/2022 6:18 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Eric, I know you probably tried this , but when you are importing Are you checking the "c" box and not the "u+c" box. The "c" only clears, whereas the "u+c"

Re: [GNC] Unusual book need

2022-04-15 Thread Jean Laroche
As far as I know, there's no easy way to delete a group of transactions, I think that's one of the shortcomings of GC? You can do a search to find all of them using the right criterion but I'm pretty sure after that you can't really do much with that (except create a report which isn't useful

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation discrepancies

2022-04-13 Thread Jean Laroche
before importing it in GC. Jean On 4/12/22 4:16 PM, John Layman wrote: I've been using GnuCash for 12 years and have rarely had a reconcile discrepancy that could be blamed on the software (that was a date bug that reared its head a while back - quickly corrected). And the incidence of error

Re: [GNC] cannot open data file

2022-02-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
he user data on your computer. If you don't have a data backup process in place, it isn't a matter of if some of your data will get lost but when. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 1 week, 2 days,

Re: [GNC] Transaction Date issues during import OFX file (TD Bank)

2022-01-13 Thread Jean L
I'm a bit confused by this discussion. Is there a consensus as to whether the bug is located in libofx, or whether libofx is passing on the right info, and GC is misinterpreting it? Jean On 1/13/2022 8:41 PM, David Carlson wrote: I have kept copies of OFX exports from several FI's for my

Re: [GNC] Transaction Date issues during import OFX file (TD Bank)

2022-01-11 Thread Jean Laroche
tions (you can do that easily in an editor), then try to import it and see whether this fixes the dates. After that the question is whether that [-5:EST] is valid or not. Jean On 1/11/22 11:59 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote: But EFT transactions (which are the bulk of my txns these days) sho

Re: [GNC] Gnucash import QIF issue

2022-01-10 Thread Jean Laroche
How did you create these traces? They don't seem to indicate a crash. Did you get them right after the crash happened? Jean On 1/10/22 2:22 PM, subscr...@nock.org.uk wrote: Thanks very much for your quick response and assistance. Tracefiles attached and hopefully these will help. Bearing

Re: [GNC] Gnucash import QIF issue

2022-01-10 Thread Jean L
Also, can you tell us which version you're using, and which OS? On 1/10/2022 4:21 AM, subscr...@nock.org.uk wrote: I am trying to import a QIF file from Quicken XG 2004 for the UK. Loading the file etc seems to be fine and I can get through all the option windows. It. The import

Re: [GNC] Gnucash import QIF issue

2022-01-10 Thread Jean L
want to do for privacy reasons. Jean On 1/10/2022 4:21 AM, subscr...@nock.org.uk wrote: I am trying to import a QIF file from Quicken XG 2004 for the UK. Loading the file etc seems to be fine and I can get through all the option windows. It. The import starts OK and gets about half

Re: [GNC] Incorrect QFX Import

2021-12-29 Thread Jean L
OK, that would have been too easy :D... Any chance you could send me the OFX? Remove anything that's private in it if you want. I'll debug on my end. If you get a chance, open a bug, and put the file there, otherwise send it to me directly... Thanks! Jean On 12/29/2021 7:58 PM, Steve Cohen

Re: [GNC] Incorrect QFX Import

2021-12-29 Thread Jean L
would reveal them, all grayed out, and clicky link to the matched split in the register? *From: *Jean Laroche <mailto:rip...@gmail.com> *Sent: *Thursday, 30 December 2021 6:18 AM *To: *gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> *Subject: *Re: [GNC] Incorrect QF

Re: [GNC] Incorrect QFX Import

2021-12-29 Thread Jean Laroche
that are missing don't have the same FITID as some of the transactions that were imported? Some banks are not good at assigning unique FITID to transactions, and that can cause a problem for GC. Jean On 12/29/21 2:13 PM, Steve Cohen wrote: Additionally, I tried exiting GnuCash and trying the import again

Re: [GNC] online banking gnucash 4.9

2021-12-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
o not want a fix for that anymore.) My advice is to get GnuCash from somewhere else. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 2 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@g

Re: [GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences -- O.T.

2021-12-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
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Re: [GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences -- O.T.

2021-12-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
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Re: [GNC] Flatpak/Flatseal Gnucash fails to launch

2021-11-27 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
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Re: [GNC] Using Gnucash to access file over flaky network

2021-11-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
tions, but a client/server solution will usually work better in that scenario." https://www.sqlite.org/draft/useovernet.html Good luck! Regards Geoff I do not know if Gnucash can run with postgreSQL, but if it can, perhaps that would be a better relational dbms to use? -- .~. Jean-D

Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-11-21 Thread Jean L
:17, Jean L wrote: Apparently not merged yet, sorry https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1167 I have no control over what gets merged when, hopefully soon? In the meatime you can get that branch, rebase on main if needs be, and test... On 11/21/2021 7:07 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: On 21

Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-11-21 Thread Jean L
, Jean L wrote: This should be fixed in the next release. The code is already in. In where?  I just rebuilt from commit 3f758ff2 which was the end of the Maint branch around 7PM EST tonight and when I imported my wife's TIAA changes I had to click OK over 20 times.  The last change to  gnc-ofx

Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-11-21 Thread Jean L
as separate transactions, not recognizing that they were a single transaction. Jean On 11/20/2021 10:21 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: Have you thought about this any more?  I have the same issue with TIAA and it's annoying.  I gather this is a side effect of commit 248a850. I can see how this change

Re: [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

2021-11-20 Thread Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user
in a bug report officially. This way I get to know this kind of forms. 86ul *From:* David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, November 20, 2021, 4:32 PM *To:* Jean D. Boyle *Cc:* Gnucash Users

Re: [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

2021-11-20 Thread Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user
. By failing, I am learning to walk... *Is this a correct behaviour, that GNUCash adds two deposit columns? 86ul *From:* Jean D. Boyle [mailto:8...@vivaldi.net] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 9:20 AM *To:* gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

2021-11-09 Thread Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user
] *Sent:* Sunday, November 7, 2021, 9:01 PM *To:* Jean D. Boyle; gnucash-user@gnucash.org *Subject:* [GNC] Problem with PayPal statements? Hi Jean, to understnad where to search I have aa few questions: Am 07.11.21 um 16:36 schrieb Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user: Hello fellow users of GNUCash

[GNC] Problem with PayPal statements?

2021-11-07 Thread Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user
Hello fellow users of GNUCash, Currently I am running GNUCash 4.8 with Flatpak on M20.2, and I have some troubles with GNUCash that i had not before: When importing my statements from PayPal (*.csv), GNUCash starts to behave a bit strange. Although everything is correct in the /import

Re: [GNC] question from newbie

2021-11-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
office box in the same post office that was returned months later from another post office, saying there was no such post office box. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 2 days, 21 hours, 27 minutes

Re: [GNC] QFX import: transaction matching NOT learning to match

2021-11-04 Thread Jean Laroche
Make sure you do the assignment during the matching, in the matching window. Not after matching is all done in the registry (in which case GC does not learn anything). Jean On 11/4/21 5:13 PM, David Mintz wrote: Hello, I am running Version: 3.8 Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) and when I import

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
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Re: [GNC] QFX Import in 4.8

2021-10-07 Thread Jean Laroche
No, there isn't such an option at this time. I agree that that's an annoying side effect of a change that was added for this version to fix an import bug. I think I'll have to fix this. Jean On 10/7/21 10:11 AM, Dale Alspach wrote: This is for the flatpak install of version 4.8 on linux mint

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-05 Thread Jean L
Thanks! That's good news! J. On 10/5/2021 7:25 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: I loaded up 4.8 version of GnuCash on another computer last night and imported one of the file that is most complex that had failed to import properly on 4.5 version of GnuCash. Good news is that where I was seeing 4.5

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-03 Thread Jean L
, and not changes to libofx... Jean On 10/3/2021 9:43 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: I believe your issue falls in the part of those libofx changes that were made. Are those nine transactions versus one in the same account or different account in same file? There are multiple way to hash this and thus finding

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-02 Thread Jean L
transactions do not appear when you re-open the account register. I don't know what to make of that. That is super weird :( Jean On 10/2/2021 5:19 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote: Hi Jean- I understand the logic for #1 and have no concerns about that. As for #2, I did continue past the first

Re: [GNC] OFX Import with Investment Transactions

2021-10-02 Thread Jean L
account database (save it as an xml file so it can be looked at with a regular editor) whether that FITID exists. Jean On 10/2/2021 8:58 AM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (VMWare virtual machine in case that matters) Gnucash 4.8 libofx 0.9.15 I tried importing an OFX file from my

Re: [GNC] Problems setting up first OFX transaction download

2021-09-29 Thread Jean L
I'm exactly in the same boat. Online banking does not work for my banks, so I download ofx by hand and import into GC. Not ideal, but it works. J. On 9/29/2021 3:53 PM, David Carlson wrote: David, There are multiple ways to skin that cat, and it is not clear which one you are asking about.

Re: [GNC] Capital gain with Return of Capital

2021-09-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
year to get a report of how much was capital gains and how much > was return of capital. I have not yet learned how to enter a return of > capital in GnuCash Do you not just subtract the capital returned from the cost basis? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jer

[GNC] [Non-techie] Wondering for a package, and seeking help for building

2021-09-19 Thread Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user
Hello fellow users of GnuCash, At the end of the day, I am wondering if there will be a *.deb, PPA or alike for GnuCash on Debian/Ubuntu in the (near) future? As a non-techie I am trying to build GnuCash 4.6 from source, but at the end I am stuck at the optionals aqbanking and gwenhywfar. As

Re: [GNC] Mortgage & Loan Repayment Assistant woes

2021-09-16 Thread Jean Laroche
Well it looks like you found a bug! :) Your payments should *not* be the same if going monthly rather than by-weekly. Can you open a bug? Possibly here? https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?component=Scheduled%20Transactions_id=13393=GnuCash=--- With all the info you put here? Thanks, Jean

Re: [GNC] Mortgage & Loan Repayment Assistant woes

2021-09-16 Thread Jean Laroche
with a monthly schedule, instead of two-week schedule and see if what you get seems right? That would help debug the issue. Jean On 9/16/21 10:31 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I can't seem to get my mortgage repayment scheduled transactions set up correctly, even though I *think* my mortgage

Re: [GNC] Linux still at 4.5

2021-07-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
sen to not use it for anything. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 2 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefer

[GNC] Upgrading from old repo to new stable (4.06)

2021-06-28 Thread Jean D. Boyle via gnucash-user
 Hello fellow users of GNUCash, As the new edition of GNUCash is fresh from to press, I would like try it too. In the repo of Mint 20.1c, there is (still) 3.08, but on the official Mint Forum, the PPA of Sicklylife is shared to upgrade to 3.11/4.02. Mint Forum:

[GNC] Uneditable transaction

2021-05-20 Thread Jean Seurin
Hi I have this odd transaction that I can't fix or delete. I'm met with the following error message when trying to delete it: This transaction is marked read-only with the comment: 'Generated from an invoice. Try unposting the invoice'. I've reviewed all invoices but I couldn't

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transaction frequency?

2021-03-16 Thread Jean Laroche
I'm not sure it's possible. Jean On 3/16/21 10:04 AM, gnu Gord wrote: I'm trying to add a scheduled transaction that occurs 21 days after the 10th of each month. With this timing, the transaction does not occur on a specific date in the month. Some months it's on the 31st and some months it's

Re: [GNC] Fwd: Gnucash xml file ope error

2021-03-01 Thread Jean Laroche
tool for xml. Most of these tools are online, so that's probably not great for you, but perhaps you can find one that you can download. You'd have to save your data uncompressed (see the preferences) Jean On 3/1/21 2:10 PM, pellico wrote: Please help. How do I get tech support

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

2021-02-05 Thread Jean Laroche
For what it's worth, I tried to repro the problem, but failed to. So it's probably a bit of a tricky bug :( J. On 2/5/21 6:45 PM, David Carlson wrote: Adrien, thanks for your comments. I am a prolific user of SX's, I average several per day. The transaction count would not appear in the SLR

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

2021-02-05 Thread Jean Laroche
Can you describe how your scheduled trans is setup? x days in advance? enter automatically? On the nth of the month or specific date? Any info to help repro the problem. Jean On 2/5/21 2:08 PM, Jack Slater wrote: I doubt I can reproduce since I'm sure the dates and settings contribute

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

2021-02-05 Thread Jean Laroche
But it's a bug that you have to go through these steps, right? (i.e., that they don't show in the register unless you close GC then open it again). On 2/5/21 2:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Be sure for each transaction you want to see, you have the 'Notify me when created' check box marked.

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

2021-02-05 Thread Jean Laroche
This is very strange, if you could do a simple repro, step by step, I could take a look at it. It definitely looks like a bug. Jean On 2/5/21 1:54 PM, Jack Slater wrote: Interesting. Sure seems like a bug to me. On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:38 PM Christina Martin wrote: FWIW for about

Re: [GNC] Scheduled Transaction Mystery?

2021-02-04 Thread Jean Laroche
I think if you set it up to create x days in advance, when the transaction is created, the "last occurrence" is set to the day of the transaction (no to the day it was created). So that would explain why you see "Last occurrence 2/5/21". Is it possible that you somehow deleted the occurrence

Re: [GNC] Changing multiple transactions

2021-01-31 Thread Jean L
Note: as a dev I have (and probably many before me) tried to look at what it would take allow selecting multiple transactions at the same time and then do an operation. Sadly, there's no quick fix to GC that could make this happen, it's a large re-write apparently. One dev looked (is looking?)

Re: [GNC] Printer not showing up in print dialogue box

2021-01-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 1 week, 5 days, 2 hours, 52 minutes ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https

Re: [GNC] Best way to upgrade from an old version (2.6.14) to current

2021-01-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
probably never get it to work. (It was even worse with the BOINC system that I run 24/7.) A knowledgeable friend hand built an rpm for me from source, and gave me a list of necessary other items. Once I got those other items, Gnucash started working correctly and it prints as expected. -- .~.

Re: [GNC] Missing Account(s) in Type-Ahead Search

2021-01-05 Thread Jean Laroche
xpense accounts, and do not get the "Gifts Received" account at all. I wonder if the number of accounts that you get in the match is equal to the max (and therefore "Gifts Received" is not displayed) Jean On 1/5/21 11:40 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Not sure if anyone else

Re: [GNC] American Express now forces you to use Quicken to download QFX

2021-01-04 Thread Jean Laroche
frustrating. Jean On 1/4/21 12:16 PM, Steve Cohen wrote: I've gone back recently to using my GnuCash and I need to download transactions from American Express.  Their website now wants to force me to go through Quicken to deactivate my account and reactivate it in order to get QFX data. It's

Re: [GNC] Printing

2021-01-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 12/30/20 4:15 PM, David Cousens wrote: Jean-David I reached the same conclusion about flatpack programs and prefer to build GnuCash and other software from scratch. This may be a better solution for you. The wiki pages have faily detailed instructions on Building GnuCash on Linux. [1]https

Re: [GNC] Printing

2020-12-30 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 12/30/20 9:43 AM, David Cousens wrote: Jean-David, This is likely a problem with the flatpack setup and not with GnuCash itself. There are previous posts in the archive about fixing these problems with flatpack. A search should bring them up but this link from an earlier thread may have what

Re: [GNC] Printing

2020-12-30 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
. It runs by itself, but often do not cooperate with other programs. My solution was that a friend built an rpm for me from  the source, and I installed it with RPM and everything works just fine. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 1 day

Re: [GNC] Bankrupt stock

2020-12-29 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
bankrupt. My broker allowed me to sell it to him for a pittance (a few cents for the lot). So I do not own those shares anymore and no longer appear on my broker's web site or my monthly statements. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 4.4 Announcement

2020-12-29 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
Microsoft Edge problems by installing Firefox web browser. But I do not intend to run Gnucash on that box. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 20 hours, 42 minutes ___ gnucash-user mailing list

Re: [GNC] List Replies

2020-11-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 11/16/20 7:22 PM, Greg Feneis wrote: If it's been the way it is for several years, it might be time to try a change. Perhaps people are more email savvy these days? I very much doubt it. Most of my e-mail friends have dropped their land-lines and use, exclusively, their cell phones. They

Re: [GNC] print

2020-11-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 11/12/20 8:04 AM, flodaubas--- via gnucash-user wrote: hello, please could you tellme how can I print the screen of each count.( the green pages) thank you I need to make a paper folder for each count. Thank you florence daubas ___ Can you

Re: [GNC] Annoying Register Issue

2020-11-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 11/12/20 3:01 PM, David Cousens wrote: Les, I have a non-flatpack version 4.2 running on Linux Mint 20 and it doesn't exhibit the same behaviour. I can backspace, delete and or highlight and delete in the Date, Description, Debit and Credit Columns without any problem field without any

Re: [GNC] Upgrading GnuCash

2020-10-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 10/13/20 3:28 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Per the FAQ in the Wiki, only upgrading from one major to the next major release is supported. Skipping major releases is *not* supported. Thus for you, 2.6.21 > 3.11 > 4.2 would be okay. However, 2.6.21 > 4.2 *might* result in issues which

Re: [GNC] Upgrading GnuCash

2020-10-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
On 10/13/20 8:35 AM, Fred Bone wrote: Currently running 2.6.21 (without issues) and think I should probably upgrade to 4.whatever. I know I need to bridge via 3.something, but can I safely assume that 3.11 will do the necessary data tweaking, or should I start with an earlier 3.x? And is

Re: [GNC] Missing payment items in OFX import from Bank

2020-10-09 Thread jean laroche
It could indeed be an FTID problem: if a transaction in the OFX file has an FTID (they are supposed to!) GC checks whether it has seen this transaction before (by looking at all previous transactions in the corresponding account). If it finds a transaction with the same FTID, it assumes you're

Re: [GNC] OFX import, wrong base account

2020-08-18 Thread Jean Laroche
Have you tried using Tools/Import Map Editor (in the tools menu)? Select "Online" on the far right to change or remove OFX import account associations. Find the wrong one and remove it. Jean On 8/18/20 10:36 AM, brad wrote: I'm still looking for ideas on this.   I'm comfortable

Re: [GNC] GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

2020-08-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user
ls by SELinux as well. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey ^^-^^ 08:00:01 up 24 days, 5:59, 2 users, load average: 4.32, 4.41, 4.25 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To up

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