RE: General Ledger

[Leo Bolta]

Thanks for your comments Wm.  I actually purchased the 1882 bookkeeping text
book in a Value Village second hand store for just over $5.  Recently I also
purchased an old King James Bible from 1840's but when I consulted an
antique book dealer about these purchases he told me that they had no real
monetary value hence, I entered them in gnc as 'expense:books.  My
handwriting is so bad that I myself cannot read it so stick to printing by
caps only.


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Subject: Re: General Ledger

On 02/03/2018 16:22, Leo Bolta wrote:
> Not to keep the thread alive but these are photos of select pages of 
> the
> 1882 High School bookkeeping text book, I referred to earlier and 
> promised to distribute.  Several of the previous commenter's may have 
> been quite accurate in regards to the historical progression but these 
> pages are just for those who might be interested on how it was 
> expressed before the turn of the last century.

Thank you for sharing that.  Have you got the books under

Assets:Chattels:Books

in your gnc ? :)


 >  Also take note of the penmanship from the personal notes
> of the student included in the last attachment...today's penmanship is 
> a shame by comparison.

My father can write like that, I'd have been a failure if it wasn't for
computers by comparison.

>  My apologies for portions of text which are slightly blurred.

Don't apologise, I found it interesting, the slightly blurred bits didn't
spoil the view for me.

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Re: How can I recover lost transactions

[DaveC49]

It is most likely that the transactions are not missing but are being
filtered out either by explicit filters or by preference settings for the
accounting period although the latter should not restrict the range ofdates
dislayed to my knowledge.

The accounting period is set under Edit->Preferences and is the first tab in
the dialogue and is likely set to the current year by default. This does not
appear to restrict display of transactions as I can display several years in
the account registers with it set to the current year

The second source of restriction may be View->FilterBy which has the
capacity to restrict the display to a specific date range along with other
date combinations or by the transaction status.

There are also other provisions for restricting what is presented in reports
as distinct from the displayed account rgisters. Edit->Report Options gives
you access to these while a specific report is being displayed.

David



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How can I recover lost transactions

[Jan via gnucash-user]

I have a very large gnucash file based originally on a Microsoft Money file.
I have been using Gnucash for approximately 3 years with no problems.

However, today, I noticed that one of my accounts (an income account) is
missing years' worth of transactions.  I use the account to track my
husband's social security income. I am missing all of the transactions from
May 2005 to the present time except for the 12 transactions from 2015. The
balance on the account accurately reflects the total value of all of the
missing and extant transactions! Also all of the transactions on the other
side of the double-sided entry are present and correct (credits to a bank
account).

The account is a sub-account to a Placeholder account, which is a
sub-account to Income.

Income
 Social Security
 Social Security - G

Do you believe the transactions can still be there? 
Has some file damage damaged a link that can be repaired?
Did this happen because I changed the account to a placeholder account? (I
have no idea when I did this and have changed computer at least twice since
I started using gnucash.)

What can I do to correct the situation? 

Thanks

Jan



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Re: Discover Card Working

[popcorn via gnucash-user]

Ron Schnatzmeyer wrote
> There was a post earlier this week about downloading Discover Card.I was
> able to get it working:You first have to manually add the account in
> aqbanking setup. Discover won't automatically download the account
> list.When you set up the connection use 'Discover Card Account Center' for
> ORG and '9625' for FID. I got those values from my Quicken log.After that
> it worked. I hope that works for you.

Thanks Ron for posting this.  It gives me hope, but I'm still not there.  I
wonder if you could fill in some more of the blanks for the User and Account
settings.  
>From the ofx.log it looks like the server isn't responding, making me think
I've got the wrong Server URL under User/Bank settings with
https://ofx.discovercard.com
I've got some other credit card accts showing Bank Code and Bank Name
(Account settings) as 00, and have used that here as well.  The
Gnucash Wiki shows Bank Code 031100649, but of course the other data there
appears out of date.
Again, thanks for checking into the Quicken logs and posting your success. 
And thanks in advance for any additional data you can provide.



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Re: Saving Files

[Stan Brown]

On 2018-03-04 14:31, Dave H wrote:
> On Windows if you start up Gnucash it'll open your last file
> automatically so you must be moving it/deleting it/doing something to
> it for Gnucash not to find it !!!
I discovered a couple of days ago that if I double-click my
whatever.GnuCash file, GnuCash will open and open that file.

And, in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 (two different laptops), where I
have GnuCash pinned to the Start Menu, opening the file in that way
automatically adds a sub-menu item for the particular file. So I can
open GnuCash from the Start Menu and have it automatically open the file
I want to work with.

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Re: General Ledger

[Stan Brown]

On 2018-03-04 09:33, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op zondag 4 maart 2018 15:09:35 CET schreef Stan Brown:
>> On 2018-03-03 09:54, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2018 13:47, Stan Brown wrote:
 On 2018-03-02 13:47, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
 There is a checkbox, "Save filter", in the filter-defining window.  What
 is that meant to do?
>
> It's meant to save the filter configuration such that when you reopen your 
> book at a later time, the same filter settings would be applied automatically 
> again to the General Journal. This works for all normal account registers, ut 
> for the General Ledger this was missed.
> 
>>
>> And if it's not doing what it's meant to, has a bug report been entered?
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714708

Great -- thanks! It works for me as you describe it -- individual
account registers do stay with that filter if I tick the box, and
General Ledger does not.

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Re: upgrading GNUcash on Ubuntu

[Geert Janssens]

Op zondag 4 maart 2018 21:06:15 CET schreef Steve Cohen:
> Thanks for the info.  Any answer to my other question about release
> notes, so that I might get a better sense of whether the new
> features/bug fixes are worth the effort?
> 
You can read the news section on the gnucash website. It gives an overview of 
relevant changes for each release.

By the way regardless of whether you build manually or use getdeb, you 
definitely want to get at least gnucash 2.6.5. There were serious issues with 
2.6.0-2.6.4.

Regards,

Geert


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Re: upgrading GNUcash on Ubuntu

[Steve Cohen]

Thanks for the info.  Any answer to my other question about release
notes, so that I might get a better sense of whether the new
features/bug fixes are worth the effort?

Steve

On 02/28/2018 10:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> You can try adding the GetDeb repo. They have 2.6.12 for 14.04, which is the 
> same version in the Xenial standard repo. So if you upgraded the OS to 
> Xenial, that’s as far as you’d get upgrade wise with Gnucash. (thought GetDeb 
> for Xenial backports 2.6.17) - see here: 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu#GnuCash_.40_GetDeb
> 
> You could also compile it yourself. The current version is 2.6.19. I did just 
> successfully compile it, twice, but I had some issues with the Dash and Unity 
> Launchers. You might have better luck. I used to build regularly on Lucid and 
> Precise without incident so I suspect there was likely something wacky about 
> my particular environment. (I was building a system for someone else and due 
> to time constraints decided to stick with the Distro package, otherwise, I’d 
> still be fiddling with it to make it work) Check out the wiki for build 
> instructions: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
> 
> If you run into any snags, just ask, someone here will help out.
>  
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Feb 28, 2018, at 5:47 PM, Steve Cohen  wrote:
>>
>> Been using gnucash for more than 6 months and I was wondering if there's
>> an upgrade.  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and they only support gnucash
>> 1:2.6.1-2.  The GNUcash website recommends going with what the
>> distribution provides, but I wonder if there are new features I'd be
>> interested in in the latest version.
>>
>> Has anyone done the Gnucash upgrade this way?  Is there info anywhere
>> about doing it?  I'm technical enough to pull it off.  Is it worth it?
>> Are there release notes I might look at that would tell me whether I
>> even want to do it?
>>
>> Thanks
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Re: Saving Files

[Dave H]

Most of us save our Gnucash file(s) to a sub directory/folder under our
Documents folder so we don't clutter up our desktop :-)  Gnucash creates
log files every time you open it and do transactions with it so just
another reason to keep it off the desktop - you can set whether to retain
log files and for how long - Preferences / General / Retain log/backup
files.

On Windows if you start up Gnucash it'll open your last file automatically
so you must be moving it/deleting it/doing something to it for Gnucash not
to find it !!!

Cheers Dave H.

On 5 March 2018 at 02:23, Alex Aycinena  wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 7:08 AM, Frank Abeyta  wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Every time I open GNU Cash, a file is created. My desk top is full of
> > these files.  How do I end up with only one
> >
> > File when I save my work.  Also I am unable to open the file I worked on
> > yesterday because I get old copies or messages that say the file cannot
> be
> > found.  I have looked at the recycle bin, and have checked out all the
> > files that appear on my desktop with no success.  HELP
> >
> > Sent from Mail  for
> > Windows 10
> >
> >
> >
>
> Don't send messages to individuals unless asked to do so. Send questions to
> the gnucash mailing list at gnucash-user@gnucash.org to which I have
> forwarded this. You can subscribe at gnucash.org.
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Re: Saving Files

[Alex Aycinena]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 7:08 AM, Frank Abeyta  wrote:

>
>
> Every time I open GNU Cash, a file is created. My desk top is full of
> these files.  How do I end up with only one
>
> File when I save my work.  Also I am unable to open the file I worked on
> yesterday because I get old copies or messages that say the file cannot be
> found.  I have looked at the recycle bin, and have checked out all the
> files that appear on my desktop with no success.  HELP
>
> Sent from Mail  for
> Windows 10
>
>
>

Don't send messages to individuals unless asked to do so. Send questions to
the gnucash mailing list at gnucash-user@gnucash.org to which I have
forwarded this. You can subscribe at gnucash.org.
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Re: General Ledger

[Geert Janssens]

Op zondag 4 maart 2018 15:09:35 CET schreef Stan Brown:
> On 2018-03-03 09:54, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
> > On 03/03/2018 13:47, Stan Brown wrote:
> >> On 2018-03-02 13:47, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
> >> There is a checkbox, "Save filter", in the filter-defining window.  What
> >> is that meant to do?
> > 
> > I think what it is *meant* to do is fairly obvious and I may be wrong
> > but I don't think that is stored or saved.
> 
> What it's meant to do is not obvious to me, or I wouldn't have asked the
> question. Could you enlighten me, please?

It's meant to save the filter configuration such that when you reopen your 
book at a later time, the same filter settings would be applied automatically 
again to the General Journal. This works for all normal account registers, ut 
for the General Ledger this was missed.

> 
> And if it's not doing what it's meant to, has a bug report been entered?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714708

Geert


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Re: General Ledger

[Stan Brown]

On 2018-03-03 09:54, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
> On 03/03/2018 13:47, Stan Brown wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-03-02 13:47, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
>> There is a checkbox, "Save filter", in the filter-defining window.  What
>> is that meant to do?
> 
> I think what it is *meant* to do is fairly obvious and I may be wrong
> but I don't think that is stored or saved.

What it's meant to do is not obvious to me, or I wouldn't have asked the
question. Could you enlighten me, please?

And if it's not doing what it's meant to, has a bug report been entered?

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Re: Transaction report ?? currency symbol

[Adrien Monteleone]

You didn’t specify what type of container, but since you mentioned Ubuntu I’ll 
hazard a guess that it’s LXD and not Docker.

It sounds like the container isn’t exposing the locale settings of the host. 
That might be by design, but I’m not sure what the logic would be on that.

Someone else here might have some tips, but I’d think the answer is more likely 
to be found on a LXD forum.

Do you have any other apps in the same/similar containers that are having issue 
with locale settings?

Also, you said your default currency is set to GBP, is this within Gnucash? or 
the container? or the host?

If you set the default currency to dollars, does it show “$” properly? Do other 
currencies work at all?

Does changing the container locale to en_GB or en_UK work?

I’ve also run into problems with fonts in containers. Perhaps the report font 
is either not accessible or it doesn’t contain the proper £ sign. Did you set a 
custom font in the report stylesheet or is this already the default Gnucash 
font?

Lots of potentials here that need to be narrowed down unless you get lucky with 
someone else already experiencing the same issue.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 4, 2018, at 6:39 AM, r0bis  wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am running gnucash from a container. Everything seemed to work fine but
> then I run a transaction report and you can see in the image that currency
> symbol is represented by ??For that container (Ubuntu) locale is en_US, but
> I have set default currency to GBP as my transactions are in pounds. Is
> there a way to solve this?Many thanks, Rob
> 
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Transaction report ?? currency symbol

[r0bis]

Hi, I am running gnucash from a container. Everything seemed to work fine but
then I run a transaction report and you can see in the image that currency
symbol is represented by ??For that container (Ubuntu) locale is en_US, but
I have set default currency to GBP as my transactions are in pounds. Is
there a way to solve this?Many thanks, Rob

 



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