Manually entering historic records

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 23:39:25 EST 2018


Trevor,

Have you tried making a copy of the file on your local drive and working on
it there.  I have never worked with dropbox so I have no idea if it could
confused by the way GnuCash makes backups, for example.

David C

On Mon, 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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