[GNC] New User Needs Set-Up Help

[Fross, Michael]

If you are trying to get rid of Liability, Assets, etc, than I suggest you
do not.  Take a look at the getting started guide.  It is very well
written, easy to read, and really helped me out.  You want to ensure you
get everything setup well as everything will build on top of that.  You can
change later, but it's often a very manual process.

Michael

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:17 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jack,
> Sorry to hear that you are having issues with Gnucash.  Right now is a bad
> time for the developers because they have just made a major upgrade to the
> program and the roll-out is not going smoothly.
>
> However, I think that your issue is not related to that.  When you started
> Gnucash the first time you started setting up some accounts and then
> decided to start over.  you can just close GnuCash and start over.  If
> Gnucash asks for a file name, close the program without saving.  If you
> have already saved it, click File > New and you are starting a new file.
> There is no need to to delete the software.
>
> Be sure to save the file in some sub-folder of your documents where you can
> find it eaasily and not be distracted by all the backup files that Gnucash
> will be making as time goes by.  You can start over as many times as you
> want, but once you get close, then fine tune by adding and deleting
> accounts until you like your results.
>
>
> David C
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Jack Stewart <jacks at amug.org> wrote:
>
> > I am a new GNUCash user and am having a lot of trouble getting started
> > with it. I set up certain attributes and then am unable to modify or
> delete
> > them. I don't have perfect foresight and sometimes need to delete or
> modify
> > a prior set-up attribute.
> >
> > One of the options in setting up a new file is to choose a category, I
> > have chosen "A Simple Checkbook" which, in turn, pre-selects some asset,
> > liability, equity, expense, and income accounts. These appear in a window
> > which contains the checking account name. It is that window name which I
> > want to edit.
> >
> > Alternatively, how can I totally delete GNUCash from my Mac and start
> over?
> >
> > Thanks  ~Jack
> >
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