GnuCash 2.6.7 question

[David Dutra]

Colin,

I've attached a screen shot. Everything is fine through the transaction dated 2/25/2017 that I entered a year ago. Today I wanted to pick up with the first transaction of the new fiscal year which was a cash payment of $1,550 dated 3/3/2017 that was split between $1,500 for salary and $50 for expenses. I believe the way it's shown on the screen is the way it should look. The problem is, if I hit Enter (either by hitting the key or clicking on the menu), the transaction is no longer there - or anywhere else on the whole ledger - but if I start to input it again, it all comes back, properly split. 

D

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 3:57 PM
To: David Dutra
Cc: gnucash-user
Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.6.7 question

Can you enter it again and do a screenshot before hitting enter?  Post it here.

Colin

On 2 March 2018 at 20:52, David Dutra <ddutra at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but I have done that and scrolled up the whole list of transactions - it's not there.
>
>
>
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> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+ddutra=nycap.rr.com at gnucash.org] On 
> Behalf Of Colin Law
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> Also you can use the search feature to search for the lost transaction.
>
> Colin
>
> On 2 March 2018 at 19:38, Evan Van Dyke <evandy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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