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

2020-02-28 Thread LEO BOLTA
Thanks Geert and all who responded to my plea for help!  Got 3.8 working and everything seems to be working fine now including the - Stacked Bar Expense Graph.  All the charts look much more polished in this version and will have to look into what other new features have been added since

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

2020-02-28 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Leo, The warning you get is because gnucash can't find the last file you opened in the location it expected. >From the path is suggests this is somewhere on your desktop. You can ignore the warning. When you get the empty gnucash page, use File- >Open to locate your date file again.

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

2020-02-28 Thread LEO BOLTA
Hi Geert, Thanks for going to the trouble to load the 2.6.21 to confirm that that version would not generate the Expense Stacked Bar Graph and for giving me a list of options to best resolve my issues. I've decided to dispense with the old version altogether and give another attempt to

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

2020-02-28 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Leo, Based on your trace file, I see you are on Windows. So I have now installed the old 2.6.21 release on my Windows test machine and I see the same error message. I have searched around in the code a bit and it looks like there was a change in that report between version 2.6.19 and

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

2020-02-26 Thread LEO BOLTA
Hello Geert,I tried to follow the path of instructions from the link that you provided and found this trace file which appear to record errors so hope this is relevant to resolving the problem of generating the stacked bar, expense report.Thank you,Leo p.s. My plan is to correct my current

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

2020-02-26 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 26 februari 2020 10:01:52 CET schreef Colin Law: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 00:59, David Cousens wrote: > > Leo, > > > > There were changes in the storage locations of configuration files between > > 2.6 and 3.x described on this page on the wiki > > If the OP ran 3.8 and then went

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

2020-02-26 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 25 februari 2020 22:19:01 CET schreef LEO BOLTA: > Any help to get the latest 3.8 version > working and the program being able to generate my favorite Expense Over > Time Report would be much appreciated. Leo In order to help you with installing the latest version you will have to

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

2020-02-26 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 26 februari 2020 01:30:20 CET schreef 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

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

2020-02-26 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 00:59, David Cousens wrote: > > Leo, > > There were changes in the storage locations of configuration files between > 2.6 and 3.x described on this page on the wiki If the OP ran 3.8 and then went back to an older version could this have messed things up? Colin

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

[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