Manually entering historic records

[Adrien Monteleone]

I’d choose “Open Anyway” as well, but you could also delete that LCK file. That’s the one causing the problem. (Note, it is supposed to be there if you have the file already open, but since you know for a fact you don’t, you can delete it. Normally, this file is deleted when you close the application, or open a different book.)


> On Jan 15, 2018, at 9:39 PM, Chris Smith <chris at cgsmith.net> wrote:
> 
> If you don't have it open elsewhere you can click "Open anyway"
> 
> Depending on how it shutdown the lock file may be there.
> 
> 
> On Jan 15, 2018 9:31 PM, "Trevor Richards via gnucash-user" <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm not making much progress... I see I got some replies to my manual entry
> issues but now unable to investigate further... see attached screen-prints.
> 
> 
> 
>    On Sunday, 14 January 2018, 19:27:21 GMT+8, Trevor Richards <
> trlah at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'll bet I'm doing something dumb... but even with date drop-down menu, I
> am unable to insert any date before 11Jan. See attached.
> 
> 
>    On Sunday, 14 January 2018, 16:43:58 GMT+8, Rick Copple <
> rick at copplecleaningservice.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Trevor,
> 
> What exactly is it doing to prevent you from entering past dates? I enter
> them all the time. You do have to enter the / dividers. Like instead of
> 11418 you would have to enter 1/14/18 to get the date to come out right.
> --Rick Copple
> 
> 
> On Jan 14, 2018, at 12:15 AM, Trevor Richards <trlah at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've been following the user group for years but still not started the move
> from 20yrs of MSmoney... all looks too hard with an MSM file with records
> back to 1997.
> I thought I could test the water with a new business and associated bank
> account that started in 2016.I've been managing this with a spreadsheet as
> very few transactions.
> So I set up a business set of accounts and tried entering manually, the
> historic records... I'm immediately stumped. It does not let me enter past
> dates. Clearly I'm going about this in the wrong way.Advice
> appreciated.Trevor
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Regards,
Adrien