Re: [GNC] Printing checks to a pdf file

Isn't that a system function? I'm on Linux (Ubuntu 19.10) and when printing checks the option to select "print to file" appears on the printer selection menu along with the other printers configured for the system. Selecting "print to file" then opens another dialog where I can specify output as

Re: [GNC] MacOS Catalina upgrade question

It's all over the Internet, such as it is. This is the Computerworld article: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3444284/apple-ships- id="-x-evo-selection-start-marker">macos-catalina-heres-what-you-get.html RBMOn Tue, 2019-10-08 at 06:42 +1000, David H wrote: > Hi Adrien, > I've been running

Re: [GNC] Can not insert text on transaction after import QIF

I've experienced 3.7 crashing to the desktop when attempting to insert text into a journal transaction, no .csv imports involved. But, I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 (pre-beta) and got 3.7 from the sicklylife.ppa. Too many variables there to draw meaningful conclusions. The crashes weren't consistent,

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Announcement: GnuCash 3.7 Released

Thank you Stephan.  Worked a treat. RBM On 9/8/19 8:04 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Build attempt was clean on first try.  Thanks John. Debian files for Disco have been uploaded to: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M04Ci8m0KthlooxgSVyLq0eyHymzRu6u Sorry, I'm still not able to build debian

Re: [GNC] Gnucash doesn't load American Express QFX files

ever made that. Jim On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 3:26 PM Ronal B Morse <mailto:r...@morsehouse.com>> wrote: FWIW, I just downloaded my AMEX card activity with no problems or unusual results, beyond that it always takes me awhile to find the correct download portal.  Maybe just a tr

Re: [GNC] Gnucash doesn't load American Express QFX files

FWIW, I just downloaded my AMEX card activity with no problems or unusual results, beyond that it always takes me awhile to find the correct download portal.  Maybe just a transient problem on the server end? RBM On 9/7/19 2:46 PM, Jim Leek wrote: I got this error using both Gnucash 2.6.19

Re: [GNC] Common account type missing in latest GNUCash 3.6.2 (India)

John, one assumes the phrase "fully populated countries" refers to the templates collection in the language files rather than the nation of India.  I've been to India and they seem to have gotten this population thing figured out RBM On 8/18/19 11:29 AM, John Ralls wrote: On Aug 17,

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Announcement: GnuCash 3.6 Released

On Sun, 2019-06-30 at 22:37 -0700, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > This Google Drive location now has debian downloads of v3.6 for both > Disco and Xenial-Bionic: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s-E6t-snmQiEFaT_hlWF2KHWrIB_LV2x > > I have fired up the Disco verion on my box. I have no way to >

Re: [GNC] I just don't understand reconciliation

> What Adrian said. Once you understand this, then > reconciliation will make perfect sense, and you will never, > ever press the "balance" button (where that extra > transaction > you don't want came from) again. > > Ron > Apologies, Adrien. You were the victim of an apparent auto- correct

Re: [GNC] I just don't understand reconciliation

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 18:27 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > You shouldn’t need to enter a balancing transaction unless > you aren’t balanced. And if you need to enter it, you > *must* check it off (either via ‘c’ in the register or the > checkbox in the reconciliation window) in order to

Re: [GNC] QFX/OFX import issue from American Express

> All but 2 were new downloads. None of them were recognized > as having transactions and all of them did have one or more > transactions. > > I need to download and import Ofx/Qfx files from other > financial institutions in a few days. If they load > properly then I have to assume there is

Re: [GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

Eric, looks like the old version didn't cleanup properly. Here's an alternative installation method...it's what I used to install 3.5 this morning. Follow the instructions to remove version 3.4, paying attention to the instruction to run sudo apt autoremove after removing the three main

Re: [GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

Thank you for this, Steven. You are truly doing the (insert your fave major deity, media crush, existential driving force)'s work here. Ron Morse On 5/3/19 7:16 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: With gobs of help from John, we now have GnuCash-3.5 debian package ready for Disco (Ubuntu 19.04). I

Re: [GNC] Version on Ubuntu 19.04

That's the snap version. It should be regarded as "experimental" as well as kinda old. Snap is a new idea that shows great promise, but right now it's a work in progress and it's not clear if or how snap installations of third-party software like Gnucash will be maintained (upgraded) or who,

Re: [GNC] Version on Ubuntu 19.04

Apologies for the multiple post. I have no idea what happened. RBM On 4/28/19 8:46 AM, Ronal B Morse wrote: That's the snap version.  It should be regarded as "experimental" as well as kinda old. Snap is a new idea that shows great promise, but right now it's a work in progres

Re: [GNC] Version on Ubuntu 19.04

Version: 3.4 Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30) Finance::Quote: 1.47 On 4/21/19 8:36 AM, Dennis Powless wrote: What version of GC is available on Ubuntu 19.04? D ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences

Re: [GNC] Linux build from source

As of today, the repository for Ubuntu 19.4 (Disco Dingy) has version 3.4 of Gnucash in the archive. Runs like a champ. RBM On 4/17/19 8:27 AM, Colin Law wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 15:16, J R via gnucash-user wrote: Hi, Is there a simple step by step to build from source for ubuntu /

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

Maybe a firewall configuration issue? Bruno's router might be blocking a required port where his neighbor's is not. RBM On 4/12/19 9:54 PM, John Ralls wrote: Bruno, That's weird. No, I can't think of anything associated with your mac's networking config that would cause perl and only perl

Re: [GNC] Announcement: Rebuild of the GnuCash 3.5 Windows Bundle

I don't know nuttin' 'bout no AIO Bundle or bugzillas or anything like that, but I sure as hell am grateful for the effort and time you and the other developers and contributors put into making GnuCash consistently better. The frequent contributors to this mailing list, too. Kudos to you all,

Re: [GNC] Error While Saving in GnuCash 3.5 on Win7-64

This probably doesn't have anything to do with your issue, but I've never been a fan of spaces in paths/filenames. Back in the olde days it wasn't allowed. I gather that's changed, but it still strikes me as bad juju. I'm a Linux guy and even though I guess we can use spaces we have to

Re: [GNC] Problems Accessing GnuCash Files on my D:\

Thanks for the correction. I (obviously) didn't know that. RBM On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 20:24 -0500, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > Most filesystems in Linux support ACL’s. > > Ken Schneider > > > On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:09 PM, Ronal B Morse < > > r...@morsehouse

Re: [GNC] Problems Accessing GnuCash Files on my D:\

Could this be an ACL (access control list) related? Linux doesn't use them (nor does the Mac, as far as I know) but Windows does and from what I understand a broken or incorrect ACL config could cause this kind of behavior. Totally clueless about how to check or what to do, but since no one

Re: [GNC] Almost ready to give up

Michael, I feel your pain. I miss Quicken's "one click import" feature, too. I blame Intuit...they kept getting the banks to mess around with the authentication process and data formats, plus their lack of documentation and pointed desire to not help developers of other applications made things

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

pe someone can find a solution for you. Ron Morse On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 09:15 -0700, Ronal B Morse wrote: > Sidman, can you manually enter a value/select an option from the > now blank "page range" setting? There should be options for > "all" and "range"

Re: [GNC] Can no longer print checks

Sidman, can you manually enter a value/select an option from the now blank "page range" setting? There should be options for "all" and "range" with a dialog box, and "current page" or similar. RBM On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 10:04 -0600, David Carlson wrote: > I have run out of ideas. Any others

Re: [GNC] Backup

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. RBM On Thu, 2018-11-01 at 08:48 -0500, David Cousens wrote: > Wm, > > What is incorrect or misleading about the Wiki backup > page? It points out > the necessity to have an

Re: [GNC] Libboost_regex needed

On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 08:46 -0700, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Wish there was a way to backup the current o/s state and > restore/reload it automatically rather than all that > typing I had to do to get items added back. I'm sure I > missed a lot (my favorites are not so crowded today)! > >

Re: [GNC] Linuc Mint 19 and GC 3.3

Hi Les. Works fine here, but I'm using it strictly for cash management and budgeting. Not using any of the business, investment management or reporting features. RBM On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 11:09 -0500, Les wrote: > If you are using Linux Mint 19 with 3.3, please tell me > your > experience.

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu PPA

And, for all that I just noticed the .ppa delivers Gnucash 3.2, which makes sense, but someone looking for 3.3 is stillgonna have to wait. Ron Morse On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 18:19 -0500, David Cousens wrote: > Ronal > > By the time you do all that are you sure its not easier > just to build it >

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu PPA

I have no idea, David. I wasted tons of time trying to build the 3 series on my production Ubuntu machine before I figured out what I was doing wrong so I'm the wrong guy to ask. Shussing out the .ppa was a couple of clicks and the backups are normal maintenance. Ron Morse On Thu,

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu PPA

It's a fair question, but when you're desperate... I looked at his page (?) on Canonical's launchpad site and saw that's he's been registered for almost two years. He has been active (or at least involved) with several different packages, mostly Japanese language related issues. Not a lot of

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu PPA

FWIW, appears to work fine on Mint 19 (which is a very close relative of Ubuntu 18.04). RBM On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 10:01 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Do note that (so far) that PPA is only offering 3.3 for > Bionic 18.04. If anyone is running an older version of > Ubuntu, you’ll need to

Re: [GNC] can Gnucash provide a list of unreconciled cheques?

On Sun, 2018-09-30 at 12:42 -0500, Barnabooth wrote: > There are times (particularly near year's-end) when a > simple list of the > unreconciled (i.e. uncashed) cheques would be very > convenient. > I seem to see nothing in either the reports or the > reconciliation window > that would do. > >

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation being undone without warning

GNC 3.2 on Fedora 28 -- changing the num field will cause the transaction to unreconcile even if one does nothing to the amount field. RBM On 08/12/2018 02:44 PM, Colin Law wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 17:50, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: Editing a reconciled

Re: [GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2

Fedora 28 picked up 3.2 about a week after it was announced...I was planning to make a hole in my schedule to give me time to science out installing from source, but a kindly developer beat me to it. RBM On 07/28/2018 12:50 PM, Michael via gnucash-user wrote: I just recently built Gnucash

[GNC] Fedora 28

Gnucash 3.2-1 just became available in the Fedora 28 repositories.  I installed using DNF and experienced no unusual issues. Thanks to whoever did the work. RBM ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

Thank you. I guess I didn't look far enough into the /usr directories. RBM On 07/04/2018 09:35 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op woensdag 4 juli 2018 16:48:27 CEST schreef Ronal B Morse: FWIW, Fedora 28 installs Gnucash from repository into /usr/share. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work

Re: [GNC] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

FWIW, Fedora 28 installs Gnucash from repository into /usr/share. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work that goes into making Gnucash what it is. RBM On 07/04/2018 08:37 AM, Colin Law wrote: The wiki entry for building v3 on Ubuntu [1] has get me up and running with little difficulty so

Re: [GNC] Reconcile Problem

Hi Gareth.  Welcome to the list. With the account register open, click on the "view" item in the menu bar, then in the dialog that opens click on "filter by". Then click on "status" in that menu bar which opens a selection dialog. Clear the checks from all but "Reconciled". Then click on OK.

Re: [GNC] Backup and restore GnuCash Settings

Fedora version 28 installs Gnucash 3.0.1.something if you use the version in the Fedora 28 repository.  Not sure which version is in the Fedora 27 repo, but I'll wager it's one of the 2.XX releases. RBM On 05/16/2018 09:00 AM, Nikos Charonitakis wrote: Hi All I have recently made a back of

Re: [GNC] How do you edit the defaults for new account creation?

Take a look at the menu bar: file > export > export accounts That might do what you want RBM On 04/21/2018 11:14 PM, johnblue wrote: Hello, I want to use individual folders to sort each year with the .gnucash database file named with the corresponding year. eg: 2018.gnucash Is there way

Re: [GNC] Snap Package Manager

I have very limited experience with SNAP on Ubuntu.  It's been generally good, but not completely problem free. I have thought about trying to create a SNAP for GnuCash 3.0, but first I'll have to get it to build cleanly in the native environment, something has so far eluded me. As I

Re: [GNC] Include unused accounts in budgets, and behaviour of placeholder accounts in budgets

for the first question try: view > filter by > other then put a check mark in the "show zero total accounts" box. Not sure on the second, but the fix may be as simple as reassigning the transaction to the correct expense account, i.e., something like ex:food:dining:drinks.  You should also

Re: [GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

Make that 21.  But, it's not a big issue for me. RBM On 04/10/2018 11:00 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, I am responding to the original email because there have been quite a few responses to this thread. I have tallied up the responses regarding subject prefixes thus far, and

Re: keyboard shortcut (view double line)

Works with Ubuntu Linux, too. RBM On 03/25/2018 03:34 PM, David Carlson wrote: There is an existing shortcut Alt-V, D which works nicely in my Windows version of GnuCash. David C On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Dave H wrote: Roger, Thanks for that works, like a charm

Re: GNUcash setup

Have you looked at using the log files to duplicate transactions from one session into another? Each gnucash session produces a log of the transactions for that session (those are the files with the extension .log that you see clogging up your data directory. The name of the log file contains

Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use

Another vote for Linux Mint. I don't use it as my distribution of choice, but I maintain a number of installations for others and find Mint to be the most user-friendly and difficult to break of the more widely used flavors of Linux. It's been a while since I encountered hardware that Mint

Re: variable scheduled date

Sounds to me like Jean-David is looking for something like a flatpack or snap...a complete self-contained installable that brings it's dependencies with it and runs in a sandbox or other self-contained userspace. But, RHEL 6 doesn't support flatpack or snaps so that's not a solution, either.

Re: variable scheduled date

Jean-David:  Does Red Hat have a virtual machine manager available for RHEL 6? I had a similar problem some years ago when I was tied to Debian Stable. My solution was to create a virtual machine running Debian Testing which supported newer versions of the applications I wanted to use.  Took

Re: Online quotes fetching latest stock price but incorrect date; currency exchange rate also not working

I guess the first step is to verify that the system time and date is correct and the operating system's time zone setting is correct. RBM On 02/17/2018 07:10 PM, Justin Smith wrote: Hi, Gnucash is not updating stock quotes correctly for me. The stock price is correct but an incorrect date

Re: How to account for a house purchase

That's what I did. I also had to set up a corresponding liability account for the mortgage, but that's a separate issue. I wasn't sure if I should use the purchase price or the appraised value as the value of the asset, but since I do everything else on a cash basis, I decided to use the cash

Re: Switching from Windows to Mint

As someone who has been using Linux as my principal operating system on home and business PCs since 2004, I can say with certainty that Linux helps those who help themselves.  It'll be worth the effort, though. I don't use Mint, but the spousal unit does and on the rare occasions I've had to

Re: Check writing

On 02/09/2018 01:39 PM, Ronald Mocny via gnucash-user wrote: Can I write checks in GnuCash and if so is it compatible with VersaCheck. Thanks I'm not familiar with Versacheck, but GnuCash has a flexible and fully user configurable check writing facility.  Personally, the pre-defined

Re: Getting started

On 02/04/2018 05:45 PM, N B Day wrote: On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 00:05 +, Buddha Buck wrote: I don't know if it is what new users usually do, but I think it's probably one of the better ways to do it. A lot of the difficulties I see on the gnucash-users list come from trying to import data

Re: Reconcile unusable

On 01/27/2018 11:26 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 28/01/18 05:50, Ronal B Morse wrote: On 01/27/2018 07:20 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: With gnucash 2.6.17 on ubuntu 17.10 I cannot do anything with the reconcile screen.  Clicking anywhere to do anything always takes me back to the main screen, I

Re: Installation on Windows 10

Did you install GnuCash using the same user account as you are using now?  Or with an Administrator account? If you installed GnuCash while logged in as an administrator or different user GnuCash may not have the correct permissions to access the directory in which the data file is located

Re: Year end issues

This is what I do, but I'm only dealing with household and personal accounts and smallish investment portfolios. Because the statement closing dates for the investment and personal bank and credit accounts don't correspond exactly with the beginning date of the new book, there's always some

Re: Receipt scanners, recommendations?

I use an app named "Scanner Pro" on my iPhone to capture documents/receipts while out of the office.  Images automatically upload to my iCloud storage or I can mail them to myself.  Access to files on iCloud from the Linux box in the office is done via the iCloud web portal.  Works fine, but

Re: Cannot edit opening balance

Is there some reason you couldn't just change the opening balance in the register to the correct amount, then performing the reconcile? RBM On 12/12/2017 10:52 AM, Carmelo Pagán wrote: I thank everyone for their feedback. I resolved it the painful way of creating a new file, downloading my

Re: How to create an asset with a reduced value compared to my regular currency (dollars)

Adrian, is there a reason you treat the rebate as a negative expense instead of miscellaneous (non-taxable) income?  To me, the rebate is something you get rather than something you don't give, but my analysis could be incorrect, and if it is I'd like to know. RBM On 12/01/2017 06:02 AM,

Re: Interesting Discovery in my accounts -- more info...

Also check the orphans and imbalance accounts for strays. RBM On 12/02/2017 03:55 PM, David Carlson wrote: Jay, My first thought is that sometime after you closed the books you probably inadvertently entered additional transaction(s) dated before the closing date. Did you make an archive

Re: My GNUCash Backup Location

They're not really backups.  They're more like safety copies created by GnuCash in preparation for updating the database. Back in the olde days the probability of a system r/w error when writing out a big file was a lot higher than it is now, and even today it is far from zero. Do what David

Re: Account report error for transactions the last 30 days

On 10/23/2017 03:38 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op maandag 23 oktober 2017 05:08:37 CEST schreef Christopher Lam: Edit > Find and CTRL+F are the same. The resulting search results register does not, in my view, produce very useful running balances. I'll add that Edit > Find behaves slightly

Re: Quantity total below create / view / edit invoice

On 10/19/2017 05:24 AM, Amish wrote: On Thursday 19 October 2017 03:27 PM, Maf. King wrote: On Thursday, 19 October 2017 10:35:53 BST Amish wrote: On Thursday 19 October 2017 01:00 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op donderdag 19 oktober 2017 02:56:27 CEST schreef Amish: Hello Recently in India