Budget Totals

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 2/18/2016 7:17 AM, damienbricka at comcast.net wrote:
>     I send to gnucash.org the first day a copy of a screen shot that was
>     never posted. I understand that I am not fluent in Ubuntu but I cannot
>     afford to be without a reliable accounting software so I had to go back
>     to QUICKEN via a virtual something a virtual something a really did not
>     want to do but when budgets are filled out and the totals are zeros and
>     I have no idea why I have to take action. You say it is not gnucash
>     then what is it?
>     Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App

Long experience with this sort of thing (decades in the cypher mines 
doing software for my living)

IF you are experiencing problems with an application that other people 
using this application are not experiencing then do not assume 
"something wrong with the software" is the problem. That would be MUCH 
more unlikely than the cause of the problem being something wrong that 
you are doing or possibly something wrong with your installation of the 
software (and I include that only because sometimes some "fiddling" can 
be needed with installations under a 'nix)

Sorry that I myself cannot help you with a "budget" problem as I don't 
myself use any of the built in budgeting facilities of gnucash nor am I 
running it under a 'nix OS. But a little patience and presumably 
somebody here would be able to help you figure your problem out.

Michael

PS: Other people encountering what they think might be a bug. FIRST ask 
in the forum "I am using feature X and encountering problem Y. Are other 
people using X and does it work for you?"  << if other people say they 
are using X and it works OK for them, then your problem is probably not 
a bug --- there are LOTS of other possibilities, especially when you are 
new to an application >> Note that were I dealing with bugs, that is the 
first thing I would check before even taking a look at your problem. In 
other words, I wouldn't take it seriously unless:
1) Nobody else seems to be using this feature.
2) Or other people say they are using it and having the same or another 
problem.
Again, that is based on decades of experience and a few hundred thousand 
lines of code in my day.