HELP!! I AM JUST STARTING TO USE GNUCASH BUT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS are more than I can put together.Is their someone that can help me? I would be willing to pay for services rendered. Just sooo tired of being screwed by Quikbooks and Quicken. Not looking for sympathy it's just that I am gettingclose to 85, own a small vineyard and Avocado grove and some investments, but am totally computer illiterate.Who can help? Jerry Winter jwinter800 at gmail.com. 619-435-8900

[Dave H]

Jerry,

Please use reply all / reply to mailing list or it's equivalent in your
mail reading software, this keeps the discussion to the mailing list and
allows people that may be able to assist and probably know a lot more about
Gnucash than I do to assist with your issues.


Thanks Dave.

On 28 January 2015 at 07:40, Jerry Winter <jwinter800 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave,
> Thank you very much for responding!! I really appreciate it.  What am I
> having problems with?
> 1) Can't seem to get set up properly. Tried to follow Tutorials but don't
> know how to follow the instructions.
>

More information needed - what are you stuck on - be specific here and try
not to generalise. First step is to get Gnucash installed and create a
Chart of Accounts.  It's been a long time since I installed Gnucash but it
gives you the opportunity to create a number of different Charts of
Accounts using the New Account Hierarchy Setup wizard.  I would create a
Chart of Accounts using the defaults and use that to practice on, knowing
that I would be throwing it away once I'd worked through the Tutorial and
gotten the hang of Gnucash.


> 2). Tried to import from my Quickbooks but couldn't find a .qif file to
> export. My file is qbw. file (whatever that means). zi already have the
> first part of this year as well ans my Balance Sheet items on QB, so that
> would be perfect to download, because I don't know how to set up starting
> entries for the Balance sheet.
>

I'm sure a Quickbooks user will jump in here and advise you of the best way
to migrate your data across, I've never used QB so can't say for sure what
is the best/easiest way to do it.



> Those are starters.  What do you think?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Winter
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well you can't be that computer illiterate if you're running Quikbooks &
>> Quicken :-)
>>
>> What technical requirements have got you stumped?
>>
>> What have you managed to do so far?  Have you installed Gnucash ok ? What
>> operating system and level are you on - Windows / Linux / Mac OS ?
>>
>> Presumably you downloaded Gnucash from www.gnucash.org - there are links
>> to the tutorial guide there but here is a direct link -
>> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/ and if you're having
>> installation issues go to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash you'll
>> find pointers on installing on the various platforms
>>
>> Cheers Dave H...
>>
>> On 28/01/2015 6:07 AM, "Jerry Winter" <jwinter800 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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