New install of gnucash

[Brian]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 07:09 -0600, Robert Ramsdell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 08:36 +1030, Brian wrote:
> > > I have copied over the .gnucash directory along with the whole directory
> > > containing my main accounts file. The .gnome directory does not exist on
> > > this system - but .gnome2 does. So I have not copied this directory over as
> > > yet.
> > 
> > You should only have to copy over and open your one main file.  I've
> > been using the same file for several different versions (and distros)
> > with no problems (I always have backups of course).
> > 
> > The .gnucash directory is not necessary, although I think that you will
> > lose any custom reports or configuration.
> 
> It's probably a good idea to copy ~/.gnucash/ over as well, though as
> Roberts say, it's not strictly necessary.  I'd personally leave
> ~/.gnome{,2}/ directories alone, which would 
> 
> 
> > > Gnucash starts up with the dialogue "To-Create Transaction Preparation". It
> > > lists all of the monthly automatic transactions I have set up since starting the
> > > business account. Beside each it says "ready to create". Does this sound
> > > right, or is it duplicating something already in place ?
> > 
> > How much time has elapsed?  Might it think that it is time for all of
> > these?  This info is in you main file BTW, not in .gnucash.
> 
> It sounds like you setup scheduled transactions, but never ran the
> "since last run" processing to actually create the transactions.  If
> you've already entered them manually instead, then you probably want to
> change them all to "Ignore"; if you haven't, you probably want to leave
> them in "Ready ...", review and create them.
> 
> In the GnuCash 2.x configuration, the "run since last run at gnucash
> startup" option is True by default, which would trigger it as you see.
> I believe it was off/False by deafult in 1.8.  So as you started up with
> 2.x, it used the default settings value, and ran the dialog at start-

I will do some more checks on this.

Thanks to all.

Brian

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