I will echo R Losey's comments but also add that over the years, I've used (and
abandoned) the various download transactional data features in favor of manual
entry.
First, many institutions have become restrictive in their download offerings
and refuse to consider anything outside the
We've just trained ourselves to enter the data manually. It IS possible to
download into GC; I just haven't used it.
You can create separate asset accounts -- we also have more than one
checking account, and we just have them as separate accounts and enter the
data separately. You can name them
Hello Michael,
Thanks for your time to reply my queries
However, I think I have confused you with my question or term used in it.
The term of "Equity Fund" was meant to signify the name of Mutual Fund that
invest in all stock (Equity of the companies, that is the term used here in
India
Hello. A few days ago I started to get the attached error when I attempted
to download quotes with GNUCash with YahooWeb as a source.
Running direct from the command line seems to work fine:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli.exe" --verbose -Q dump
YahooWeb AAPL
aapl:
high
Max,
The backup files and log files give you some protection in the event of a
system or GnuCash crash. The backup files are
a copy of the data file at its state before the last time it was opened before
a crash. The log files record the
transactions which had been entered in GnuCash up to the
Max,
Those log files are usually very small and they get deleted at the same
time as the automatic backup files. I have GnuCash configured to keep them
for several days and I find them very handy when GnuCash crashes to
re-enter whatever I had entered after my last manual file save, which is
not
I don't really know. I don't pay any attention to the log files. They're there
if I ever need them, and seem to disappear after a reasonable time.
David T.
On Jan 8, 2024, 10:18 PM, at 10:18 PM, Max Crystal
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David,
As you can see, I checked never for backup log to never. Am I doing something
wrong? It is still posting to my hard drive files every time. I Have version
5.5
From: David T.
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2024 12:55 PM
To: Max Crystal
Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject:
That's handled in settings. You can disable by setting the log file retention
to 0.
David T.
On Jan 8, 2024, 9:05 PM, at 9:05 PM, Max Crystal
wrote:
>Every time I open and close the register it creates a notepad log entry
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>my hard drive. Can I disable this so I will not have multiple
Every time I open and close the register it creates a notepad log entry on
my hard drive. Can I disable this so I will not have multiple entries every
day.
Max
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For the record, the US tax features in GnuCash function by assigning accounts
to specific tax lines, much like your approach.
It's helpful insofar as it guides your accounting decisions (what types of
entries I need to track for tax purposes, etc.), but it doesn't make your
decisions for you.
Old but still good source of information:
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234157
If the file has many years of data then suggestion is to start the account with
the most amount of transaction to least and start with Bank/CC/Loans types of
accounts first before going to
I, too, left Quicken about 8 years ago and changed to GnuCash. I had a
slight familiarity with double-entry accounting, and I've seldom had any
issues with GnuCash.
I thought about importing Quicken data, but then decided against it... I
reasoned that if I really did need to reference something I
How to do it using gnucash is not your problem. How to do it even were
you using pen and ink on paper is your problem. In other words, you
don't know the account to debit in order for the transaction to be in
balance.
Hint: Accounts of type income and expense are both temporary accounts of
Hello Sirs,
I have an investment in a liquid Mutual fund and I every week
systematically transfer some amount to an Equity Fund (which is STP)
While doing so, there is an effect of Capital gain or Loss and the money
does not come to any account, but the fund gets transferred to another
fund
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