2017-06-18 GnuCash IRC logs

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02:24:49 <Cuare> night all
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03:56:31 <weasel> is there an easy way to change the shortcut for "next/prev tab" from C-A-Pg{Up,Down} to just C-Pg{Up,Down}?
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08:27:08 <finster> hello there. using gnucash 2.6.16 on OSX(intel). localization of gnucash is german. apparently gnucash thinks a week should start on sunday. i've not found an option to change that. what are my options?
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09:28:51 <frozenjim> Docs say: "If you close your books, be prepared to see inaccuracies in the standard reports.". Can you give me an idea of what kind of inaccuracies this implies? Accountant wants closed books at year-end; I am debating how to best comply.
09:32:53 <frozenjim> i.e. will I simply be missing all historical data in reports moving forward (which is expected after year-end) or will there be actual unexpected totals?
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14:19:54 <jralls> weasel: Yes, but it's geeky: Edit ~/.gnucash/accelerator-map while GnuCash isn't running.
14:23:26 <jralls> finster: Use a different locale for LC_TIME.
14:27:57 <jralls> frozenjim: Closing the book creates transactions that credit every income account and debit every expense account by their balance amounts and do the reverse to a retained earnings account in Equity. Any report that includes that transaction will be affected as one might expect. For example, a P/L report for the whole closed-out period will show zero income and expense; one covering only part of the period will show *negati
14:27:57 <jralls> ve* income and expense.
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15:34:02 <weasel> jralls: hm. thanks.
15:34:15 <weasel> so, next to figure out what the action is called and what to make the shortcut string
15:54:25 <frozenjim> jralls: OK, that sounds about expected. Since I am closing out the 2016-17 year on June 30, I simply won't be able to pull reports including data from, say, April 2017. Correct? In my mind, this is pretty much what I have always experienced; you pull current reports from the books but historical data needs to come from either your year-end reports or from a backup copy of the books. Am I hitting the mark here?
15:57:09 <jralls> frozenjim: Pretty much. If you use a day on which you do no other business for the closing transactions then you can simply specify a date range for a prior year that excludes that one day.
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17:11:23 <weasel> I wished gnucash did some smarter locking like flock(). Right now it always warns me that my file is still locked even if the old instance still has died.
17:19:19 <jralls> weasel: Maybe. I'm not sure that flock would work any differently. It certainly wouldn't work with the SQL backend. But if you think you can make it work, make a pull request.
17:23:35 <weasel> jralls: well, the nice thing about flocks is that they get released as soon as the process owning them goes away.
17:23:56 <weasel> otoh, they work less well in more distributed filesystems
17:24:28 <weasel> they would work well for me, because currently I only ever run gnucash on one machine (even if the display goes to different once depending on where I'm at)
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17:27:17 <jralls> Lots of users use network file systems of various flavors. There's a much greater risk of them having two copies open and making a mess than users who work on only one machine.
17:28:21 <weasel> does gnucash deal well with two instances running when using an SQL backend?
17:28:31 <weasel> or does it also only support running a single instance?
17:29:23 <weasel> (nfs and probably cifs should be fine. drobbox and other various cloud thingies would presumably not handle flocks)
17:32:15 <jralls> weasel: No, the SQL backend is also single user because gnucash queries only at load-time. It uses a lock table to ensure only one connection.
17:34:38 <weasel> I see, thanks
17:36:30 <jralls> Linux might support flock over cifs but MinGW doesn't seem to support it at all.
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23:41:54 <dougransom> I downloaded transaction data for both a credit card, and for bank account. For transactions which show the credit card being paid from the bank account, how do I merge the transactions, since each account shows the same transaction with an offset of "imbalance".
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