transaction already being edited in another register

[robert belanger]

Bill Wright wrote:
> 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
>
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When I was transitioning from Quickbooks to gnu-cash, I looked high and 
low for a tool that would allow me to move 8 or 9 years of data.  I 
found a tool that ran on windows and would extract most/all? of the 
data, but the cost was too high for my taste.