(1) Reconciliation, (2) XP version and (3) upgrading in Lucid Lynx

[David Carlson]

On 4/7/2013 6:34 PM, Paul Conrady wrote:
> denbigh1974 wrote
>> I am using GnuCash 2.4.2 in Ubuntu 10.04. It's excellent for my purpose of
>> tracking personal finances with some small business activity in addition.
>>
>> I have entered some financial data for the past couple of years (all as
>> new transactions). They match up with the information on my bank
>> statements.
>>
>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> (a) I want to "lock" the entered transactions so that I will not
>> accidentally amend them. I also want the facility to unlock them in case I
>> need to edit the information. Will reconciliation of the accounts provide
>> this facility?
>>
>> (b) I plan to run a mirror set of my accounts on a Windows XP machine. Is
>> the structure of the data files the same for both Ubuntu and XP? I.e. can
>> I just copy the the .gnucash file into a Windows folder and open that file
>> from the Windows version of Gnucash?
>>
>> (c) The latest version of Gnucash is not available in the Ubuntu 10.04
>> official repository. Is there a .deb file for the latest version of
>> Gnucash that I can download for Ubuntu 10.04? I am wary of building a
>> different version of Gnucash directly from source as I haven't the
>> experience to do this.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
> a) Correct, a reconciled transaction is uneditable. You may click the "y" in
> the (R)econcile column to "unreconcile" and edit. GnuCash displays an
> appropriate warning asking if you want to intentionally unreconcile. Note
> that a transaction can have both reconciled and unreconciled splits. For
> example, a typical transaction in my checking account register looks like
> this (because I do not reconcile Expense accounts, i.e. no statement to
> reconcile):
>
> date         description                R     debit   credit
> 1/1/2013   Edison Electric Co
> Expense:Utilities:Electric          n      100
> Assets:Liquid:Checking            y                100
>
> b) Correct, the files are identical.
>
> c) I use GnuCash 2.4.11 on Ubuntu 10.04 and it works well. (GnuCash 2.4.12
> is now available.) I downloaded the tar.bz2 file from SourceForge and built
> it myself. A lot of dependences need to be downloaded before building
> GnuCash. Here is the link:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/?source=recommended
>
>
>
>
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Regarding your question a) it is true that the first time you try to
edit a split line containing the status 'y' you will get an error
message, but you must be careful not not to press 'Enter' at that point,
because the focus is on the box that disables the warning for future
edits.  To reset the warning, click on Actions:Reset Warnings and follow
the prompts.

Regarding question b) When you have more than one copy of the file it is
very easy to get out of sync if one file is edited but not the other.  I
generally consider only one file location as valid, and any others as
backups, probably out of date.

For c), I did succeed with the build myself, but it is not easy unless
you are familiar with linux.

Good Luck,

David C