Manually entering historic records

[Dave H]

I use Dropbox however I maintain my gnucash data file on my local drive
rather than directly in Dropbox.  I think from memory the lock file hangs
around in Dropbox so when you try to re-open your data file the LCK file is
still the and triggers the warning dialog.  As others have said you can
just click on open anyway if you're sure no one else has it open..

Keep your data file locally and depending on your OS use something like
FreeFileSync / Create Synchronicity / etc to sync it to Dropbox when you
are good and ready.

Cheers Dave H.


On 16 January 2018 at 14:39, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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