Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
While there are other considerations, such as cash versus accrual and following the Recognition Principle, I see this as more of a general case of Your Books vs. the Bank's Books. You keep Your Books. The Bank keeps theirs. You then reconcile the two. (which does *not* involve changing

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-08 Thread Christopher Lam
This is the formal terminology that the accountancy expert bodies deem "revenue recognition". Numerous formal (see IFRS and GAAP) publications exist, with a much better supporting evidence than our informal discussions here. On Tue, 9 Apr 2024, 6:12 am R Losey, wrote: > Since I first learned

Re: [GNC] Import QIF files

2024-04-08 Thread Geoff
Hi Beryl This particular error is a problem with GnuCash version 5.6, and was resolved by one of the developers on Sunday: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2024-April/111404.html You have three choices: (1) Downgrade to GnuCash version 5.5

Re: [GNC] Can't import .qif files from quicken since latest update

2024-04-08 Thread Geoff
I doubt it - I am often prompted for the data format when doing QIF imports. Geoff = On 8/04/2024 6:41 pm, Joseph Keithley wrote: Just out of curiosity is the word "Discover" somehow a protected word, function, directive or key word in the Gnucash code?  Everytime I import my Discover

Re: [GNC] Import QIF files

2024-04-08 Thread fromvendor
Hi, I saw yesterday, I think, that there is an update to address this issue regarding regular QIF imports (vs investment ones). That would require installing the latest fix update if I understood what I read. -g -Original Message- From: gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Import QIF files

2024-04-08 Thread Jim Passmore
Beryl, I can't help on the specifics as I only occasionally do imports. I will give the request to supply your operating system and GnuCash version when reporting a problem. Also, and the main reason I replied, is to point out two emails in the same day with that same error message while doing

Re: [GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-08 Thread Liz
On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:11:37 -0500 R Losey wrote: > Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always > dated a transaction on the date I wrote the check; similarly, when > entering credit card transactions, I use the date that I actually > used the credit card. > > Recently,

Re: [GNC] gnucash-devel list down?

2024-04-08 Thread Liz
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:39:07 -0700 Bruce Schuck wrote: > Odd, after sending a message to the gnucash-devel list early this > morning, I received an email saying my message was in a queue because > I'm not subscribed. Odd, I've been subscribed for at least a handful > of years. > > I also

[GNC] OFX duplicate transactions and missing ones.

2024-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Black
Right now I am limited to using my phone for e-mail so I cannot search for related mails or bug reports easily. I had multiple line surges that fried 3 towers and my laptop computer. Not to mention a cascade failure of all of my hard-drives and backup drives and printers. Somewhere along the

[GNC] Import QIF files

2024-04-08 Thread Beryl Lymer
I have been importing QIF files into GNUcash successfully for several years. However, for recent files, I am getting an error of ‘MISSING QIF INVESTMENT ACTION FOR TRANSACTION DATED xx/xx/.  The erroneous transaction seems to be the last of those imported.  The import will not complete.  I

[GNC] Recording transactions (date)

2024-04-08 Thread R Losey
Since I first learned about recording transactions, I have always dated a transaction on the date I wrote the check; similarly, when entering credit card transactions, I use the date that I actually used the credit card. Recently, however, I was having a discussion with a friend and he said that

Re: [GNC] gnucash-devel list down?

2024-04-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
An announcement posted on 4/2 came through for me. And while you can get to it here: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel The archive link returns a Not Found. Regards, Adrien On 4/7/24 8:50 PM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: I have received nothing from that list since

Re: [GNC] CSS GTK Register padding/spacing

2024-04-08 Thread J R via gnucash-user
Thanks Ken, I just tried yours, still the same. I also tried adding transparent borders & margins. As we get older we need a little flexibility. All the other css "tags' not a problem Although I was using: "user".gnc-class-user-register-primary {  background-color: #403f3f;  color: white; 

Re: [GNC] Keep running into "Could not get lock file for postgres..."

2024-04-08 Thread john
It usually means that GnuCash is not quitting cleanly. Are there any errors in the tracefile? (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile). In the SQL backend it's actually a record in the gnclock table, so a simpler work-around would be to use the postgres CLI to remove that record. Regards,

Re: [GNC] Can't import .qif files from quicken since latest update

2024-04-08 Thread Joseph Keithley
Just out of curiosity is the word "Discover" somehow a protected word, function, directive or key word in the Gnucash code? Everytime I import my Discover Card qif it asks me for the date format. No other qif import does. On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 4:38 AM Joseph Keithley wrote: > Both version

Re: [GNC] Can't import .qif files from quicken since latest update

2024-04-08 Thread Joseph Keithley
Both version 5.6 and 5.6-1 reject my credit card qif import with the following message: "Missing QIF investment action for transaction dated 04/06/2024." Reinstalled version 5.5 and imported the qif successfully. On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 9:39 PM Geoff wrote: > Hi Christopher > > Thanks for

Re: [GNC] Can I get help with GnuCash here

2024-04-08 Thread David H
If it’s only happening with one register I’d be checking I don’t have any filtering on for that particular register ? Cheers David H. On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 5:28 pm, Geoff wrote: > Hi Bob > > First, a matter of email list etiquette. Please always reply to the > list email address

Re: [GNC] Can I get help with GnuCash here

2024-04-08 Thread Geoff
Hi Bob First, a matter of email list etiquette. Please always reply to the list email address (gnucash-user@gnucash.org) so that everyone can see your questions and answers. Second, unfortunately I don't have any experience with either MAC or the GnuCash OFX/QFX importer, so I can't assist