am having trouble with newer version of gnucash

[Geert Janssens]

On donderdag 11 augustus 2011, Wendy Jalbert wrote:
> I have been keeping the records for our very small church on gnucash for
> the last couple of years.  I have gnucash 2.2.9 on my laptop with Vista. 
> I keep all the accounts on a stick drive.  I want to do my accounts from a
> newer computer with Windows 7 (because it's a lot faster).  I downloaded
> gnucash 2.4.7.  I have run into two problems which may be related to each
> other.
> 
> My main issue is that I cannot get or print reports the way I would like. 
> All reports go by my current accounting year (calendar year 2011) but I
> often need the information to cover only up to a certain date (ie end
> June) or only one month (ieJuly).  I can do this on the old version by
> right clicking and selecting different options.  This does not work on the
> new version.  It doesn't even work to go through the menu bar and change
> parameters.  I find this extremely frustrating.  There is nothing in the
> reports section of the manual to address this.
> 
Hi Wendy,

I'm afraid I have some difficulty understanding what your problem is exactly.

Can you give one precise example of what you want to do, and what happens 
instead ?


> The other problem (possibly related) is that I have not downloaded the
> accounts into the new version because I have all my personal, my business
> and my husband's business accounts on Quicken and am afraid they will be
> downloaded by mistake.  I don't want to combine these records with the
> Church records.  SO when i open the new version of gnucash I have to open
> the main account on the stick drive (it doesn't find it by itself as the
> old version does) in order to enter data. This data is then recognized by
> both versions.
Again, I don't really see what you are trying to do here and what you expect 
to happen instead.

I'm not sure what you mean by "I have not downloaded the accounts into the new 
version". What accounts are you talking about ? Bank accounts ?

Geert