[GNC] Fwd: no user assigned error message

[David Carlson]

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From: NHEngineer <nhengineer at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GNC] no user assigned error message
To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>



Thank you for your prompt response, David.

I devoted most of Friday trying to get GnuC to work to no avail.  I'm an ME
and the accounting terms and jargon may as well be Greek to me.  As with my
#3 son (IT manager with Starbucks) trying to help me with my PC, he had
knowledge that is fundamentally simple to him and his directions, whether
it be verbal or written, are equally baffling.

Not wanting to appear a complete dofus, I exhausted every option I could
think of when setting my account up.  Every time I ran across a term I
didn't recognize, I Googled it.  I even called the customer service of my
bank and asked which format I was to use to transfer my account data into
GnuC.  I gave her all the option set-ups provided and she didn't have a
clue what I was talking about.  When I explained that I was setting up
GnuCash in place of Quicken she said I should just transfer from Quicken to
GnuCash.  I tried to explain that I was dumping Quicken in favor of GnuCash
and her response was, "Why?"

With that, I knew she would be no help at all so I Googled "GnuCash help
forum" and found gnucash-user at gnucash.org

I tried to join and I thought I had but, after I filled in the joining form
and sent in my question, I received:

*"**Your mail to 'gnucash-user' with the subject *

*    no user assigned error message

Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

The reason it is being held:

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Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
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So then, thanks sincerely for the guidance you provided above.  My
next attempt will probably be tomorrow.

Best regards,
David Lee

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<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
On 2019-06-10 10:39 AM, David Carlson wrote:

NHEngineer,

Welcome to the GnuCash user maillist.

Getting started with GnuCash is a bit of a challenge,  but once you learn
how to it, I think you will like it.  The forced double entry bookkeeping
feature is what sold me.

I believe those errors belong to the AQ Banking feature which most of us do
not try to use, as it doesn't work well with most US banks.  I know I for
one gave up on it for my banks long ago.

What does work well is the QFX/OFX import, the QIF import  and now with
the 3.5 release, the CSV transaction import features.

I suggest trying the first online with banks, the second with your old
Quicken data, and the third if the first do not work.

Try running GnuCash in parallel with Quicken for a while.

You will probably have more questions after you read the help manual and
get a data file started, we will try to help.

David CarlsonÂ


On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 6:01 AM NHEngineer <NHEngineer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a brand new user so please be easy on me.  I was a Quicken user but
> I'm
> not going to subscribe to the new owner's blackmail demand so I've chosen
> to
> try to learn gnuCASH.  I struggled through the account set-up and I
> thought
> I did everything right - guess I missed something.  The gnu help didn't
> help
> me much.  It may be the the 'no user assigned' is triggered by many
> different errors.  I search "no user assigned" here and only found two
> threads neither of which applied to my problem.
>
> I thought I followed the instruction for setting up my checking account at
> Northway Bank in Berlin, NH properly.  It was a struggle but I thought I
> was
> successful.  'Thought' being the operative word.  When I tried to
> transfer
> from the Northway account to my gnu file, I got this error message:
>
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t378656/NoUserAssignedError.jpg>
>
>
> When I closed that window, I got this one:
>
> <
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t378656/NoUserAssignedError02.jpg>
>
>
> Help!
>
>
>
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