gnucash-user Digest, Vol 154, Issue 30

John Donnee jdonnee at ec.rr.com
Tue Jan 12 16:11:29 EST 2016


I am currently running 2.6.2 and I just got the email about the upgrade.

2.6.2 is working well for me. Is there any reason that I should do the upgrade at this time or should I wait until there are more comments regarding how it is running.

Thanks

John Donnee

910.622.8111
317 Mount Eden Place
Cary, NC 27518

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>   1. Re: Invoice register entry-copy/paste (nor)
>   2. Re: Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.11 Release 2016-01-11
>      (Geert Janssens)
>   3. Re: Plot Problems (tjoen)
>   4. Re: Finding Invoice Type "?" / CSV Import Help (Geert Janssens)
>   5. Re: Good PR (Geert Janssens)
>   6. Re: Error opening file: No such file or directory (Geert Janssens)
>   7. Re: Transactions involving different currencies (rsbrux)
>   8. Re: Transactions involving different currencies (John Ralls)
>   9. Re: Error opening file: No such file or directory (Geert Janssens)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:41:55 -0800 (PST)
> From: nor <norberthd at yahoo.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Invoice register entry-copy/paste
> Message-ID: <1452544915433-4682580.post at n4.nabble.com>
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> Thanks Maf. It does work with the latest version.regards,nor
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:39:21 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.11 Release 2016-01-11
> Message-ID: <4658747.cY81sFA7XM at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
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> On Monday 11 January 2016 20:12:05 John Ralls wrote:
>> GnuCash 2.6.11 released
>> 
> 
> Congrats and thanks to all who invested their time and 
> effort in this release !
> 
> Geert
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:45:11 +0100
> From: tjoen <tjoen at dds.nl>
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Plot Problems
> Message-ID: <1452591911.1407.3.camel at dds.nl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
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> lj wrote on mon 11-01-2016 om 21:58 [-0500]:
>> Louis C. Kouvaris wrote:
>>> Thank you lj for your response. I do not get any temporary files
>>> created
>>> in /tmp and I am using webkitgtk-1.11.92.
>> 
> 
>> Can you upgrade to a
>> newer webkitgtk? I'm using 2.4.9 which I picked because smarter
>> people than
>> me at slackbuilds.org are using it for their GnuCash. Be aware I
>> needed
>> "--enable-webkit2=no" to build it (again, thanks to slackbuilds.org),
>> and also it took almost 4 hours to build it.
> 
> Follow instructions at
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/x/webkitgtk2.html
> to make webkit-1 and -3 from the same source tarball
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:23:24 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, bsoffer at soffer-law.com
> Subject: Re: Finding Invoice Type "?" / CSV Import Help
> Message-ID: <2866237.4pU552uGgM at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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> On Friday 08 January 2016 08:42:35 Benjamin Soffer wrote:
>> Thanks, Geert.  Yes, I am sure I cannot delete the offending invoice. 
>> When I try to delete the transaction, I get this message:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ?Cannot modify or delete this transaction.  This transaction is marked
>> read-only with the comment: ?Generated from an invoice.  Try
>> unposting the invoice.? ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Of course, to unpost the invoice I have to first ?find? the invoice. 
>> But GC cannot find it with the ?find invoice? tool.  Thus, I?m stuck.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have not imported any transactions.  Every transaction in my GC was
>> entered manually.
>> 
> 
> This is a very odd situation. I have no idea either how you got into it.
> 
> I am very curious to learn some more about it though. Would you be willing to send me a 
> copy of your data file in private for further investigation and hopefully finding a fix ? I will 
> treat it as sensitive data of course.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:24:16 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, clavenrn at onepost.net
> Subject: Re: Good PR
> Message-ID: <2638310.7Q64ZRCdhm at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> On Saturday 09 January 2016 14:10:28 Dennis Powless wrote:
>> https://opensource.com/life/16/1/3-open-source-personal-finance-tools-> linux
>> 
>> Some good, gncash PR
>> 
>> D
> 
> Nice article, which indeed is quite positive on gnucash. Thanks 
> for sharing the link!
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:08 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: Ogindo Paul <engogindojr at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Error opening file: No such file or directory
> Message-ID: <2800251.HG28yuZXXc at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> On Tuesday 12 January 2016 08:22:20 Ogindo Paul wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have been trying to get to open my old reports before doing an
>> upgrade from version 2.4 series. I am not able to get reports loaded
>> even if I try to install various different versions of gnucash. What
>> am I missing? Currently on version 2.6.11 and getting the same error.
>> 
>> Kindly assist need to send some reports.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Your message and images don't convey very clearly what you are trying to achieve exactly 
> and as of when it started to go wrong.
> 
> So here are a few additional questions that may help us help you:
> 
> - Which operating system are you using ?
> - Did it work in gnucash 2.4 and not anymore in gnucash 2.6.x ?
> - The reports you are trying to open, are they newly created reports (by using for example 
> Reports->Business->Customer Summary) or saved report configurations you are trying to 
> reopen ?
> - Can you post the contents of the trace file [1] ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
> 
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 03:31:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Transactions involving different currencies
> Message-ID: <1452598284812-4682599.post at n4.nabble.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> I have a similar, but somewhat thornier problem.  I have transactions in
> which a Euro-denominated fund was purchased from a Swiss franc (CHF)
> account.  This seemed to work as I expected in GC 2.4.x, but is giving me
> problems in GC 2.6.1.  An earlier transaction entered in GC 2.4. looks like
> this:
> 
> The amount, SFr. 10,005 represents 10,000 Euro at the exchange in effect on
> that date.
> When I try to create a new transaction of this type, even if I duplicate the
> existing transaction, GC creates an imbalance like this:
> 
> Apparently GC thinks that the security is CHF-denominated, when it is
> actually EUR-denominated.
> How can I fix this?
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:10:15 -0800
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Transactions involving different currencies
> Message-ID: <3E55BED9-F04D-4D7A-8176-436A5DA4BBEE at ceridwen.us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2016, at 3:31 AM, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a similar, but somewhat thornier problem.  I have transactions in
>> which a Euro-denominated fund was purchased from a Swiss franc (CHF)
>> account.  This seemed to work as I expected in GC 2.4.x, but is giving me
>> problems in GC 2.6.1.  An earlier transaction entered in GC 2.4. looks like
>> this:
>> 
>> The amount, SFr. 10,005 represents 10,000 Euro at the exchange in effect on
>> that date.
>> When I try to create a new transaction of this type, even if I duplicate the
>> existing transaction, GC creates an imbalance like this:
>> 
>> Apparently GC thinks that the security is CHF-denominated, when it is
>> actually EUR-denominated.
>> How can I fix this?
> 
> Your screen shots didn't make it through the list-server. Maybe you can type in a sketch of the transactions.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:56:33 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> To: Ogindo Paul <engogindojr at gmail.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Error opening file: No such file or directory
> Message-ID: <5406859.FcbDq935E3 at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> On Tuesday 12 January 2016 17:29:55 Ogindo Paul wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am using windows 8.1.
>> Yes in gnucash 2.4 I was able to generate a report of the Customers,
>> invoices and even profit and loss accounts. In 2.6.11 I can generate
>> the invoices per customer, but I cant print the invoice out or get a
>> summary on the report window...reports -----> Business --->Customer.
>> I wanted to generate a report based on the data in the backup of
>> Gnucash..i.e. generate report based on the old invoices before the
>> upgrade.
>> 
>> How do I obtain the trace file[1]?
>> 
>> Regards Paul
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Please make sure to keep the conversations on the mailing list. It is considered rude to send 
> mail directly to other users/developers unless explicitly told to do so. Additionally, that one 
> person you reply to may not have all the answers. You have more chances for a complete 
> answer by keeping the conversation on the list.
> 
> You can do so by using the "Reply to all" or "Reply to list" features of your mail program.
> 
> As for the trace file, the [1] added to it was a referral to the end of the mail message where 
> you could find a link to the documentation on obtaining the trace file. I'll repeat it here again:
> 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
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