transaction already being edited in another register

[Bill Wright]

On 11/11/2010 04:50 PM, David Reiser wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 2:16 PM, Bill Wright wrote:
>> On 11/11/2010 12:44 PM, wegelin wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed gnucash today, exported several accounts from Quicken as 
>>> QIF
>>> files, exited Quicken, imported the QIF files into gnucash. Then, in
>>> gnucash, in a credit card account that I had just imported, I 
>>> attempted to
>>> enter a new transaction. I was able to type in most of the info (in the
>>> fields marked Data, Description, Transfer, Charge). At that point 
>>> the cursor
>>> was in the Charge field (I had just typed in the dollar amount) and the
>>> Balance field showed 0.00 (although the balance immediately above was
>>> nonzero). When I tried to complete the transaction by hitting Enter,
>>> however, I got the following popup message: "This transaction is 
>>> already
>>> being edited in another register. Please finish editing it there 
>>> first."
>>>
>>> The same thing happened when I hit Tab.
>>>
>>> As soon as I hit "close" on that popup, the entire transaction, 
>>> which I had
>>> just painstakingly entered, was deleted.
>>>
>>> What is this about? I had no other accounts open in gnucash or 
>>> anywhere else
>>> for that matter. How do I simply enter a transaction?
>>>
>>> Jacob Wegelin
>> Will there be a update coming that will allow reading Quicken 2010 
>> files?
>>
> Highly unlikely. Intuit doesn't even read their own file formats 
> between Mac and Windows (and sometimes between versions on the same 
> platform). Intuit's procedure for their own software is to export the 
> data to an intermediate file type and then import it to the new 
> software. (And then inspect the data manually to discover what didn't 
> make it over in the transfer.)
>
> If Intuit can't even read their own files, I don't think the open 
> source community is going to be able to successfully reverse engineer 
> the file format.
>
> Dave
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Ok Dave, looks like I will be running Quicken under WINE