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Hello Derek, hello list<br>
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Derek Atkins wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Derrick Ashby <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:daeroncs@fastmail.fm"><daeroncs@fastmail.fm></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">Now he tells me! I confess that it WAS a typo! I am now checking out
gnucash as per the instructions on the cvs page at gnucash. I sometimes
think that computers exist merely to make we operators look like
complete fools. In my case I admit that they don't have to try that
hard... I will let you know how I get on.
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Okay. :)
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Eventually, I got around to installing the cvs code onto my test
machine, and copying the account file with the unbalanced balance sheet
as well.<br>
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The first thing I noticed was a line in the balance sheet for "Orphan"
transactions. These turned out to be transactions that had been
"balanced" in the original file with a null account. I have no idea
how that happened, but once I had fixed those in the original account
file the balance sheet was still unbalanced. When I removed the share
"split" from the copied account file in the cvs gnucash I did get a
balanced balance sheet.<br>
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My conclusions are that:<br>
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(1) if you have a balance problem, one useful thing to do is install
the cvs gnucash, and see if it finds any orphan transactions! Thank
you for introducing that feature; and <br>
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(2) there are definite problems with stock sales in gnucash that remain
to be fixed.<br>
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I now have to work out what transaction I can put in to get rid of the
inbalance.<br>
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Derrick<br>
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