GnuCash 2.6.7 question

Evan Van Dyke evandy at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 14:38:59 EST 2018


This will sound like a stupid response, but it’s happened to me a bunch…

Are you 100% sure you have the date right on the transaction when you enter it?   I’ve had this happen too many times when I enter just the month/day on a transaction, and GnuCash puts in last year’s year for some reason… causing the new transaction to jump up off the top of the screen when I hit “Enter” to create the transaction.  Most common around the end of the year (for me), and you say you’re coming back to the DB after time off, so it might just be “helping” you in an incorrect fashion.

The fact that it auto-fills when you try to re-enter it suggests that the Tx is in your ledger somewhere.   If you’ve been clearing/reconciling your transactions, you can probably find it fast by scrolling up and looking for a Tx in the cleared section of your ledger which says “n” in that column.

—Evan

> On Mar 2, 2018, at 1:26 PM, David Dutra <ddutra at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm very much a newbie and I'd appreciate some help. I used GnuCash last
> year for our small nonprofit to keep track of income and expenses based on
> transactions through our check book. I figured out how to use it for simple
> and split transactions last year and it worked fine. I haven't used it since
> and when I tried to carry on where I left off a year ago, I encountered a
> problem.              
> 
> 
> 
> I set up a payment and split it into its two expense components - no
> problem. I hit Enter, but instead of entering that transaction and moving to
> the next line for the next entry, my transaction disappeared from view and
> all that was left was the date. However, when I began to enter it again
> beginning in the Memo column, the whole transaction reappeared with the
> correct amounts and splits. Hit Enter, and the same thing happened - line
> disappeared except for the date. Same thing happened when I clicked on the
> Enter button on the menu rather than hitting Enter on the keyboard. 
> 
> 
> 
> Not sure why I was able to figure it out a year ago, but having issues now,
> but I'm assuming I'm making some simple mistake. Can anyone help me out??
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
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