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On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:18 +1100, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:08, Gregg Fowler wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I am very new to GNUCash. I have been using it for less than a week.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Just migrated same time period from Windows XP to Ubuntu linux and have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> been using Microsoft Money. Took me a while to get the program set up as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> there were conflicts with some of my transactions that I imported.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Finally got that all straightened out and got the hang of the basics. I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> have one problem. I set up a payment schedule for all of my bills in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Scheduler. It came time to pay a bill and I can click on the particular</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> bill and go next and it shows the amount. When I go forward again</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> however, the action kills the program immediately and it dissappears</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> from the screen. This happens every time. I have repeated this about 10</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> times with the same result. Does anyone have any idea of where I might</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> find the conflict and a solution. As I said I am very new to Linux. Any</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> help would be greatly appreciated. Scheduling my bills in this manner is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the only thing that I must have to complete the transition.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Thanks,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Gregg</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes, we know this one well. You have a mistake in the schedule of bills (mine </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">used to be that a transaction was unbalanced, ie had no account to pay </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">from) .</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You need to turn off the scheduled payments. Try following this from the wiki</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_GnuCash_crashes_on_startup_trying_to_run_an_SX.__How_do_I_fix_this.3F">http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_GnuCash_crashes_on_startup_trying_to_run_an_SX.__How_do_I_fix_this.3F</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Liz</FONT>
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Thanks everyone. I believe I see clearly the errors now. I originally tried to set up the payments and the window was minimize. I didn't see the "big picture". I think I have them set up correctly, but think I will wait for a test run tomorrow. Once again. Thanks.
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