Consistency Check Problem and Opening Balances account. (SOLVED)

[Michael Calder]

G'day Thomas,

Thank you for the advice - taken and problem fixed.

I will also fix the "--" problem. Probably comes from my signature block.

Cheers, Mike.

Michael Calder
73/81 Willandra Road
Narraweena, 2099
m: 0401 478 551
p: (02) 9981 6327

On 28/7/22 01:56, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> starting a mail with a line containing "-- " caused some fun here: I pressed
> reply to get your original text in and it never showed up. This is due to the
> fact that said combination is used above a footer, so that e-mail programs
> don't copy it into a reply. So your complete message was treated as footer
> here.
> 
> But now on to your problem.
> 
> On Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2022 04:57:17 CEST Michael Calder via KMyMoney wrote:
> 
>> G'day KMM Gurus,
>>
>> I have been using KMyMoney since 2010 and am very happy with all it
>> does. Thanks to the team!
>>
>> During the last week I upgraded my Linux Mint to Cinnamon 20.3 and
>> reinstalled the latest version of KMyMoney - 5.0.8.
> 
> In fact, the latest version is 5.1.2 but it might not be available in
> your distros repo for some reason. You could try to use the AppImage
> version instead which you can find on https://kmymoney.org/appimage
> 
>> My File Information shows Created on - 2010-07-28 which is when I first
>> started with KMM.
>>
>> I have a "Share Invest Jnt" Account with which I had a problem when I
>> ran a Consistency Check shortly after the above change over "settled
>> down" ;-). (see attached)
>>
>> By a bit of "creative accounting" - I edited the account Opening
>> information Date to 1/1/99 (1999) and that corrected the 24 problems.
>>
>> BUT - This then introduced the 3 new problems shown at the bottom of the
>> attachment.
>>
>> The Accounts list does not show an Opening Balances account although,
>> when I go to the Unit 73 Account ledger, highlight the "opening balance"
>> entry and then do Transaction -> Go To 'Opening Balances' I clearly go
>> just there. (See attached PNG)
>>
>> I assume the 'fix' required is to edit the Opening Balances account
>> Opening information Date to 1/1/99 as I did before, but it must be
>> "internal" as View - Show All Accounts is checked.
> 
> The opening balances account belong to a fifth account group called
> equity accounts. The are not shown even with the show all accounts
> option turned on. There is a special option to make them visible (see
> attached). Once that is ticked and acknowledged with OK, the equity
> section becomes available in the accounts view and you can edit the
> opening accounts balance as you do with other accounts.
> 
>> Is there a work around for to remove the Consistency Check "problem"
>> message that I get every time I shut down.
>>
>> BTW - Please note my new email address of michaelcalder at iinet.net.au;
>> the old "
>>
>> Cheers, Mike.
>>
> 
> Hope that helps.
>