Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/11/2018 09:27, Geert Janssens wrote: Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:09:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: 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 What's misleading

Re: [GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 21/10/2018 11:18, José A. Fernández Troncoso wrote: Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss is calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative amount in the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me. It presumes a tax regime, unfortunately. The

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Wm
On 01/11/2018 09:19, Colin Law wrote: 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

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
that is not a constructive comment. David C On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:00 PM Wm wrote: > On 01/11/2018 09:19, Colin Law wrote: > > 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

Re: [GNC] Version 3 on Ubuntu 18

2018-11-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
No, the version in the 18.04 repo is 2.6.19, but 3.3 is available in the 18.10 repo. Your other option would be flatpak, though I think it is still at 3.2, I haven’t checked in a while. You could also build 3.3 yourself. The process is not very difficult and the wiki instructions have been

Re: [GNC] Can't assign payment to multiple invoices

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/11/2018 10:39, Wail Yahyaoui wrote: Wm: If the payments really are unrelated to the invoices use the old fashioned payment on account method, i.e. reduce the balance on the Liability and tidy it up occasionally. > > I wanted to clean the unpaid invoice list. # > What do you mean by

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:, CURRENCY:EUR

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 21/10/2018 10:32, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote: Dear John, Thanks for the tip!  After a bit of experimentation, it seems that the problem has to do with the number of currency exchange rates requested. If I reduce the number to five or fewer, the price update works.  I guess this has to

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 01/11/2018 16:40, Ronal B Morse wrote: I don't see any reason to change the Wiki. People who already have a backup plan in place know what they need to do. So long as no-one is ever allowed to say "I followed your instructions and lost my data" I agree. I am waving and saying, "I have

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
So because Liinux does not use a backslash, that is erroneous? On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:15 PM Wm via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 01/11/2018 09:27, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:09:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: > >> On 31/10/2018 01:24, D

Re: [GNC] delete transactions

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
James, Look under File>Properties>Accounts and see if you have set a value for Day Threshold for read only transactions. If so, either increase the number of days or set it to zero to disable it. Then you should be able to edit the transaction to assign an account to any split line or even add

Re: [GNC] Backup

2018-11-02 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I fixed your slashes in several places. Anything else? Why don’t you get your own wiki account? Regards, Adrien > On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:01 AM, Wm via gnucash-user > wrote: > > On 01/11/2018 09:27, Geert Janssens wrote: >> Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 17:09:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user:

Re: [GNC] how to process refunds

2018-11-02 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 2 november 2018 06:01:36 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: > You can either unpost the invoice and then return the funds, or > > Issue a credit note for the amount of the invoice, un-pay the invoice, apply > the credit note as an offset, and then return the funds. > Third option: Issue a

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread David Carlson
If I recall correctly QDF format is a proprietary and encrypted format owned by Intuit. The only way to extarct the data is to use the Guicken program to open the file and then export to QIF format. Hang on to Quicken until you have experimented with importing the QIF files into GnuCash to be

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread D via gnucash-user
On November 2, 2018, at 5:44 PM, David Carlson wrote: >If I recall correctly QDF format is a proprietary and encrypted format >owned by Intuit.  The only way to extarct the data is to use the Guicken >program to open the file and then export to QIF format.  Hang on to Quicken Indeed,

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Perhaps your Quicken had no transfers between accounts? I posted in this list and was told that's how it is because the transfer appears in two places in the QIF file and figuring out that it's the same transaction was not worth implementing in the import code. I also tried editing the QIF code

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread D via gnucash-user
On November 2, 2018, at 5:59 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote: >Yes, there should be an Export... QIF function in Quicken. >I did that recently for a club account which was pretty straight-forward, >no stocks, etc. >The main problem I found was that when your Quicken database >has a transfer from one

Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread D via gnucash-user
On November 2, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Paul Kinzelman wrote: >Perhaps your Quicken had no transfers between accounts? Nope. I had numerous accounts and thousands of transfers and transactions. I exported the entire file (using the then-available "export accounts, categories, and transactions",

[GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

2018-11-02 Thread Mark Schwomeyer via gnucash-user
GreetingsWe have for years used Quicken, (1998 at least) (latest is 2008) they have went to a paid subscription service. (I think is overpriced)That said I have used Open Office for a while and thought to look for a open source financial program.The search for programs listed that GNUCASH would

[GNC] Version 3 on Ubuntu 18

2018-11-02 Thread Kevin Hale Boyes
Is the latest version (3.3) available on Ubuntu 18.04 ? I've seen a PPA from sicklylife but I don't know them and wonder if they're trustworthy. Thanks ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to