older transcations not shown in ledger

[Peter Dodwell]

Thanks Josh & Derek for your suggestions. Unhappily none of them work.
I have Transaction Journal set as register default when opening accounts
from the account tree.
I've attempted to change the date range as suggested, but still no earlier
transactions are displayed.
On reopening that account I find that the date range has reset itself to the
previous setting.

I've tried the same procedure in Basic Ledger, Autosplit Ledger, and General
Ledger from the Tools menu with the same results. The curious thing is that
if I enter a transaction with a date prior to the earliest date shown, the
transaction disappears but the visible balances reflect the change.

I have an earlier version of gnucash on my laptop so will see what happens
there when I try to access my data file (copied via sneakernet).

In the meantime, do you have any other thoughts?

regards
petrus (aka doddy)

On 14/02/2008, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
>
> "Peter Dodwell" <petrus1928 at gmail.com> writes:
> > I have recently started using gnucash in Linux Mint. I've entered
> historical
> > transactions dating from  1 Jan 2007 to the start of this year.
> > These were done in the previous version of Mint (Celine).  I don't know
> what
> > version of gnucash.
> > I've had to upgrade my computer, so saved the data files to an external
> > drive. My new version of Mint is 'Daryna', and gnucash is now 2.2.1.
> > I've opened my data file, but unhappily can only see this year's or late
> > last year's (mid November) transactions in the ledger.
> > However, reports pick up all transactions. The accounting year is set to
> > absolute 1 Jan '07 - 31 Dec '07.
> > Please, how can I get to see all transactions for the period. I do need
> to
> > edit some of the earlier ones.
>
>
> I bet you're using the "General Ledger" (Journal, really), which has an
> implicit date range.  Try View > Filter By… to change the date range.
>
> Otherwise, open the register for an account relating to the transactions
> you
> wish to see by double-clicking on the name of the account in the Account
> tree
> page.  If you don't see an Accounts tree, try File > New > New Accounts
> Page.
>
>
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>


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