Budget Totals

[Dennis Powless]

Gnucash is a wonderful, and I might add free program.  But, it sometimes
takes a bit of tinkering and has a bit of a learning curve if your coming
from quicken (I did years ago).  Are you new to ubuntu? (that's a whole
separate issue, I run GC on mac, windows and linux, same file shared via
dropbox).

I do not using the budgeting feature either, I do think that quicken may
have a better budgeting feature, but for gnucash that is not the draw for
the program, its the other great features.  I use a spreadsheet for
budgeting (libreoffice) and that works great for me.  If the budgeting
feature is your top priority, then ask specific questions about that and if
it's not what you need, then gnucash may not be the program for you.
Remember, gnucash is not quicken.  I just had to re adjust how I did things
with gnucash vs how I did things with quicken, same great results though....

Good luck,

D

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <mpnovack at mtdata.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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