older transcations not shown in ledger

[Derek Atkins]

That's REALLY odd.  When I open an account the default View -> Filter By
[Date] setting is "Show All".  Is that not the case for you?

Can you show a screen shot of your register and of the View -> Filter By
screen?

-derek

"Peter Dodwell" <petrus1928 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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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