Philosophical Question (GnuCash)

[Nathan England]

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What I don't like about gnucash, and admittedly it's because I really don't=
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know how to use it, but I realy wanted to use financial something! for my=20
finances.

Anyway, if I click on my income account, type in a description, then add $3=
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to the income field, it gives me a window saying:

"The current transaction is not balanced.

[ ] Balance it manually
[ ] Let GnuCash add an adjusting split
[x] Adjust current account split total "

If I select the "adjust current account split total" everything disappears.=
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still shows the transaction, but no money involved. If I select the "Let=20
GnuCash add an adjusting split" the same thing happens. If I select Balance=
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it manually, I get a whole bunch of negatives everywhere and nothing makes=
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sense.

I'm running version 1.6.8
I also have 1.4 (not installed) and that one works grand, but I wanted all =
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new flashy things, and it's not working for me!! lol

Am I doing something horribly wrong or what?

nathan

Am Freitag 31 Januar 2003 02:55 nachmittags/abends schrieb Carl Parrish:
> On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:46, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > My two cents again:
> > I'd also like to try GnuCash.  I use QuickBooks right now, but the most
> > annoying thing (other than the fact that it runs in Windows) is that th=
ey
> > keep trying to wring extra money out of you.  Every year there's a new
> > set of tax tables, and they're not cheap.  And they're always pushing n=
ew
> > versions and changing the file formats.  I got tired of paying for the
> > new tax tables - since I'm my company's only employee, it was a small
> > convenience.  I finally just took the IRS Employers' Guide and used it =
to
> > do a spreadsheet to calculate my withholding, then I'd enter all those
> > figures in manually.  I would've already converted to GnuCash, but the =
QB
> > file formats are different than Quicken's, and the last time I checked,
> > there were no converters for QB's files.  If I can ever make the time,
> > maybe I'll look into working on that myself.
> >
> > Vaughn Treude
>
> I'm using GNUCash I *love* it. If you're looking for a replacement for
> quicken I'd say easy. If you're a quickbooks user....I'd say depends.
> 1.8 should be released sometime next week. But gnucash is *hard* to
> install. Its like all the nightmares people associate with installing on
> Linux. For me it was worth learning how though. With the new Account
> Payable / Account Receivable accounts. The invoice / bill druid and the
> scheduled transactions. It has now become the only finance tool I need
> (oh did I mention that you can connect it to gnuTimeTracker to auto
> create Invoices?). Its great but its not an out of the box solution. I
> *often* need to pull in support from CVS. For instance I *think*
> Quickbooks can export in OFX format. And if you have the OFX library
> installed Gnucash can read that but you have to compile support for it
> in. So if you like playing with code, by all means get gnucash. If not
> you may want to wait till your distro has the features you need.

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