[No Thirst Software] Re: quicken import error (date)

2009-01-03 Thread ciara belle
Thanks Kevin - can you provide a links to this patch? Is it a complete new install or just a patch overtop? thanks again; ciara On Jan 2, 11:38 pm, Kevin Hoctor ke...@nothirst.com wrote: This has actually been fixed in the 1.4.2 patch (under testing) build   213 will be posted later tonight

[No Thirst Software] Re: quicken import error (date)

2009-01-03 Thread ciara belle
Mike and Ciara, This has actually been fixed in the 1.4.2 patch (under testing) build   213 will be posted later tonight and you'll be able to test it and   make sure it works. Peace, Kevin Hoctor ke...@nothirst.com No Thirst Software

[No Thirst Software] Re: Scans of Receipts

2009-01-03 Thread Jaysen
Most scanned formats are already compressed. A second round of compression will actually make the files larger. How about this: 1. Create a local repository for all receipts. New scans go here. 2. Use rsync to keep the NAS/file server in sync. This is basically what time machines does, but it

[No Thirst Software] Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Kriya
Hello - just got the software, and I think I'll love it once I can figure this out. I would like to start my cash flow on 12/30, when I was last paid. First problem - sometimes the start date window accepts my change in date correctly, and sometimes it doesn't. It keeps defaulting to 12/1 when

[No Thirst Software] Re: Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Kriya wrote: Hello - just got the software, and I think I'll love it once I can figure this out. I would like to start my cash flow on 12/30, when I was last paid. First problem - sometimes the start date window accepts my change in date correctly, and

[No Thirst Software] Re: To bucket or not to bucket?

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Jaysen wrote: I am still struggling with Q categorization mentality and MW bucketing. Here is the scenario Cash account is +100 as that is what I had in my pocket on 1/1 start date. Allocation from paycheck left personal care at 0. I spend 10 from cash on a

[No Thirst Software] Re: Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Kriya
Kevin - So my understanding is that I can't really do what I am trying to do, right? My month begins when I get my paycheck on the 30th, so if I simply start everything on 1/1, then I don't have the purchases made on 30 and 31 included in my allocations for January. Also, no matter what I

[No Thirst Software] Trial - Some Questions

2009-01-03 Thread towerflyby
Hi, A life long MS Money user (me) is trying to move away and use a Mac application. I have spent the day with Moneywell and I have a few issues I was wondering others might clear up for me. 1) I quit Moneywell and went straight back in and noticed I had lost everything in my last session.

[No Thirst Software] Re: Trial - Some Questions

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 11:18 AM, towerflyby wrote: A life long MS Money user (me) is trying to move away and use a Mac application. I have spent the day with Moneywell and I have a few issues I was wondering others might clear up for me. 1) I quit Moneywell and went straight back in and noticed

[No Thirst Software] Re: Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Kriya wrote: Okay, I understand... I am just having trouble with that because the few purchase made on 12/30 came from different places... not just my regular salary. With the holidays having just occurred, I had all sorts of nonregular income and purchases.

[No Thirst Software] Re: Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Kriya
Right, but there is just no way for me to be completely accurate as of 1/1 with how much salary I had left to spend because I was spending from several sources that didn't include salary money, and it's not as simple as finding a balance. This is the first time I am budgeting this way, so I

[No Thirst Software] Re: Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Kriya wrote: Right, but there is just no way for me to be completely accurate as of 1/1 with how much salary I had left to spend because I was spending from several sources that didn't include salary money, and it's not as simple as finding a balance. This is the

[No Thirst Software] Re: Problems with Cash Flow Start

2009-01-03 Thread Blair Watkinson
Kriya, In order to know exactly how much money you have to allocate, as well as allow you to change your starting balance to some point in the past or in the future, I recommend a slightly different approach. You might consider making a backup of your file and comparing the two approaches

[No Thirst Software] Smart Reconcile Feature Request

2009-01-03 Thread Scott B.
Kevin: Have you thought about expanding the function of the reconcile calculator? As an example, I recently had a situation where My transaction list was $80 off from my statement summary. I did the math and manually scrolled through all of the transactions for the period until I found some

[No Thirst Software] Re: Trial - Some Questions

2009-01-03 Thread towerflyby
Thanks for getting back so quickly Kevin. This is very unusual for MoneyWell. If you saved the document once   when you were prompted, MoneyWell would have saved every 5 seconds   after that or it would have given you an error that it couldn't save.   I thought I had read somewhere is saved

[No Thirst Software] Re: Smart Reconcile Feature Request

2009-01-03 Thread Scott B.
Thanks for the helpful tip. I am in the same boat as you with my Bank/ CC limitations. We'll see what Kevin/others think, but in the meantime this will help with at least my bank statement. Thanks. -Scott On Jan 3, 3:13 pm, Blair Watkinson thewatkins...@mac.com wrote: Scott, In the

[No Thirst Software] Re: Trial - Some Questions

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 2:25 PM, towerflyby wrote: Thanks for getting back so quickly Kevin. This is very unusual for MoneyWell. If you saved the document once when you were prompted, MoneyWell would have saved every 5 seconds after that or it would have given you an error that it couldn't

[No Thirst Software] Re: Scans of Receipts

2009-01-03 Thread Blair Watkinson
Kevin, I can send you a copy of my ReceiptWallet file if you want to see a sample implementation of a package format. Receipt Wallet uses a document/library that is a singular file but includes the receipts in its package. You can actually view every receipt if you choose to view

[No Thirst Software] Re: Scheduling a Bi-Weekly Paycheck

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 6:08 PM, bephi...@gmail.com wrote: What am I missing? I am trying to schedule a bi-weekly paycheck. I see daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I don't see bi-weekly. Can I do this? What am I missing? Hi Blaine, Try changing the number right after the Weekly occurs

[No Thirst Software] Re: Scheduling a Bi-Weekly Paycheck

2009-01-03 Thread bephipps
One more question. When i set up a paycheck that goes into multiple accounts, do i set up a transaction for each account? Is there any way to set up a paycheck that will be split into multiple checking/ savings accounts? Thanks, Blaine --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[No Thirst Software] Re: Scans of Receipts

2009-01-03 Thread Jaysen
MoneyWell uses an Apple database technology called Core Data and it   doesn't like being in a package. An OS X package is nothing more than   a folder with a special flag that keeps you from looking into it by   accident. Hmm... I wonder it this might be why time machine is failing when I

[No Thirst Software] Re: Scans of Receipts

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
On Jan 3, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Jaysen wrote: MoneyWell uses an Apple database technology called Core Data and it doesn't like being in a package. An OS X package is nothing more than a folder with a special flag that keeps you from looking into it by accident. Hmm... I wonder it this might be

Fwd: [No Thirst Software] Re: Scans of Receipts

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
Begin forwarded message: Great point. I was wondering what would happen if I changed my folder structure, and I'm not sure I want to find out. I have seen some software that allow you to select whether or not the external files would be included in the actual database or if only the

[No Thirst Software] MoneyWell 1.4.2 RC 3 Posted

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin Hoctor
MoneyWell Customers, In the spirit of trying to get MoneyWell 1.4.2 out the door so I can go back to working on MoneyWell Mobile, here is another release candidate. Please report any bug directly to me at ke...@nothirst.com and not to the user forum. You can download it here:

[No Thirst Software] Hide Future Pending option

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Larson
I have a transaction dated 1/1/09. It's marked as pending, but is not outside the future pending time period, since its in the past, not the future. However, hiding future pending transactions also hides the pending transaction from the past. That seems quite unexpected, and unintuitive. This