About a year ago I installed a version of MacOS GNUCash and made
some set-up mistakes from which I could not back out. (e.g. I
found that after creating some accounts I could not delete
them.) It was suggested that I uninstall GNUCash and begin all
over again. Uninstalling was a very arduous, time consuming, and
expensive process for me and has left me afraid to try using
GNUCash again. I want to try again with v3.3 but while
maintaining my ability to escape from user errors and incorrect
set-up judgements.
I would appreciate any guidance I cn be given on how I can get
GNUCash going without becoming mired in "undoing" things which,
in hindsight, I want to change. I know double entry book keeping
but am a total novice with GNUCash.
Thanks for any suggestions you can offer on how I can avoid
having to repeat this depressing process. I need the freedom to
experiment with ideas and back away from the bad ones.
Thanks for your help,
Jack
On 9/30/18, John Ralls said ……
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.3, the fourth
release of the 3.x stable release series.
Changes
Between 3.2 and 3.3, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
• Bug 771667 - Different warnings when changing reconciled
splits vs. splits linked to reconciled splits.
• Bug 784420 - "Save changes on closing" window waits 2^32
seconds when "Time to wait for answer" is set 0.
• Bug 786708 - GnuCash won't load currency fractions larger
than 100. Also create larger fractions for the account dialog.
• Bug 787439 - Segmentation Fault in Transfer dialog after
clearing Date field and pressing escape.
• Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite sqlite3 database file.
• Bug 792446 - Mixed languages in error dialog.
• Bug 794526 - Python bindings can't find loadable modules.
• Bug 794755 - Commodity Register displays fractional prices.
Prices will now be displayed in decimal, rounded to two more
places than the currency's smallest unit.
• Bug 794870 - If no book is opened, gnucash still asks if
the user wants to save changes when opening a file.
• Bug 795821 - GnuCash could not obtain the lock for
file://C:\Users\username\Documents\GnuCash\2.6.21\\.gnucash
• Bug 796054 - Unposting and reposting invoice doubles amounts.
• Bug 796137 - query.search_for outputs critical qof.object
errors and prevents queries being run.
• Bug 796248 - Editing Scheduled Transaction.
In addition to not begining to edit already-loaded
transactions, don't try to load splits that are already loaded.
It shouldn't be possible to load a transaction without also
loading its splits.
• Bug 796474 - Segmentation fault while setting up online banking.
Allow only a single instance of the assistant.
• Bug 796509 - Saved reports don't respect *some* 'Edit
report options'.
• Bug 796579 - Cannot go forward with empty duplicates screen.
• Bug 796665 - Backspace Key Inoperable After Ctrl+V.
• Bug 796669 - Dark Theme Text Colors Hard to Read.
Only add the register-foreground class when using Gnucash built
in colours. When this setting not used, the foreground colour
by default will be what ever the theme has set and will be down
to the user to over ride along with the other register colours.
• Bug 796724 - Can't overwrite gnucash DB on MariaDB.
• Bug 796725 - 4 of 6 Date Posted options fail to return
matching transactions.
• Bug 796734 - Auto-complete entry not highlighting to allow
for incremental entry.
• Bug 796737 - Patch to restore gncmod-python.c.
• Bug 796739 - Toolbar buttons have no labels.
• Bug 796751 - reconcile window usability - R column should
be next to Amount.
• Bug 796755 - buggy window handling at startup.
• Bug 796756 - OFX import fails to recognize associated
income accounts.
• Bug 796759 - --add-price-quotes leaves a lock on the file.
• Bug 796762 - Scrollbar partially hides the delete button in
the Saved Report Configurations window.
The vertical scrollbar obscures the delete button in the tree
view so add a dummy blank column to the end and set it to the
width of the vertical scrollbar.
• Bug 796766 - Credit note creating 'imbalance' with wrong entries.
• Bug 796777 - CVE-2008-1391: Integer overflow in included
strfmon function.
• Bug 796788 - Strange behaviour in options of multicolumn report.
• Bug 796792 - SaveAs Overwrite dialogue in background and
not visible.
• Bug 796812 - gnc_date_cell_get_date and
gnc_date_cell_get_date_gdate have different date validation behaviour.
• Bug 796813 - Date validation inconsistent.
• Bug 796814 - Changing a book's read-only threshold doesn't
immediately affect open registers.
• Bug 796816 - Notes field in Duplicate Invoice dialogue is 'read-only'.
• Bug 796819 - Bad icon with Spanish localization.
Drop translations of the 'gnucash-icon' string from our po
files and add a note for translators to not translate this
string or use the literal 'gnucash-icon' as translation.
• Bug 796820 - References to 'Gnome Bugzilla' should be
changed to 'GnuCash
