Enter wipes out half of transaction

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 2/28/2016 1:12 AM, E Rosenberg wrote:
> GnuCash 2.6.11 on Debian 8
>
> When I enter both the deposit & withdraw halves of a transaction and
> press enter or tab to start a new transaction, the last entry in the
> previous transaction is wiped out.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Ethan

Yes I have ideas, but they might be based upon misinterpreting what you 
say you are doing.

If you aren't talking about a "split transaction" then you would never 
be entering BOTH a deposit and a withdrawal amount. You would ether be 
entering a deposit (and then the ACCOUNT for the other half of the 
transaction) or a withdrawal (and then the ACCOUNT for the other half of 
the transaction).

Using gnucash you are entering directly into the LEDGER. The JOURNAL is 
implicit/virtual.  I am saying this because in old fashioned bookkeeping 
one DID first enter the transaction into the JOURNAL where you would be 
entering both sides -- and those two lines would later be posted into 
the LEDGER ---- hence the possibility that a little bit of knowledge 
about double entry bookkeeping (the old fashioned way) might be 
confusing you. Computerized accounting software COULD have been designed 
that way (enter into JOURNAL plus automatic posting) but as far as I 
know ALL do it more like "cashbook accounting" (no journal, well not an 
explicit journal)

Michael