transaction already being edited in another register

[Dennis Powless]

Another option, is if the data is not quite right in GC, then
sometimes you can go back to guicken and re-arrange how things are
done and then do an export and see if it makes the data work better.
I experimented with this and had good results.




On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:36 AM, robert belanger
<robert.a.belanger at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
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