Enter trans. in register problem

[amenditman]

I will check that maybe I switched tabs to a different account.
Never know, I am working on a new, to me, laptop and am always
accidentally touching the touchpad and moving the focus while typing.

Thanks for responding.
Bob Pianka
PC Corps
813-892-2068
amenditman at gmail.com


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Derek Atkins-3 [via GnuCash]
<ml-node+s1415818n4662009h45 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 4:21 pm, amenditman wrote:
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> I wish I understood what was going on.
>
> What is going on is that you opened up an account (Assets:Cash on Hand),
> and then specified the same account (Assets:Cash on Hand) as the Transfer
> account, thereby creating a transaction to/from the same account.
>
>> I have been using GnuCash for some years to do basic bookkeeping for
>> my home based business and have never seen this problem before.
>
> Probably because you never specified the current open register account as
> your transfer account.
>
>> It started today after I had already entered an entire months work.
>> When I got to the last cash transaction I wanted to enter, it went
>> crazy.
>>
>> I guess I want to know why it changed behavior.
>> Did I accidentally press some keyboard shortcut to change a setting
>> from what it had been?
>
> Unlikely.  You might have changed accounts by accident without knowing it.
>
>>
>> Bob Pianka
>> PC Corps
>> 813-892-2068
>> [hidden email]
>
> -derek
>
>>
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:04 PM, David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash]
>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> On 5/20/2013 12:14 PM, amenditman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am experiencing a strange problem.
>>>>
>>>> When I am entering a transaction in an account journal it is
>>>> duplicating
>>>> the
>>>> entry with an opposite charge.
>>>> Essentially, cancelling my entry.
>>>>
>>>> Example
>>>>
>>>> 01/27/2013   POS   Newegg     Assets Cash on Hand    Spend 52.99
>>>> <ENTER>
>>>>
>>>> When I press the enter key, the transaction appears right in the
>>>> register
>>>> as
>>>> I have entered it.
>>>> But another transaction also shows up at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> 01/27/2013   POS  Newegg  Assets Cash on Hand   Receive 52.99.
>>>>
>>>> Which if I delete the second, the first is also deleted.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, I have accidentally hit some magic key combo without knowing
>>>> it.
>>>> How do I get this to go back to the default settings?
>>>> I have looked all over the Preferences for the account and for GnuCash,
>>>> no
>>>> luck finding anything which sounds like this.
>>>> What do you even call this weird behavior?
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Bob P.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> You are seeing double entry bookkeeping in action.  You need to assign
>>> the second entry to another account such as Expense:Computer.  Read the
>>> fine manual.
>>>
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