You cannot make any changes to a transaction with a date before the opening date of the account it is in. The most common reason for this is importing all the data for an account. If the import file does not contain an opening date for the account, KMyMoney will use the current date. The way to fix this is to edit the account, and change the opening date to be earlier than any transaction in that account.

A transaction is shown in red if any part of the amount has not been assigned to a category. This is most commonly caused by importing a QIF or OFX file or by downloading statement data online. All you have to do is to modify the transaction such that the whole amount of the transaction is assigned to categories.

If you provide an opening balance when you create an account, it is shown as the first transaction for the account. If you do not, then the transaction is not there, and because it is a special type of transaction, you cannot simply add it as you could a deposit or withdrawal. However, you can add it later by editing the account.

You can easily change an account type between checking, savings, and cash. However, because of the way KMyMoney stores the account information, it does not allow other changes of account type. The way around this is to create a new account of the correct type, move all the transactions from the old to the new account, and then delete the old account.

The internal calculations of the new loan wizard do not allow a 0% interest rate. The best way to handle this situation is to create a simple liability account with a starting balance for the amount of the loan, and then create a schedule for the required payments.

There are several settings that control which transactions are displayed in the ledger view of an account. First, check the ledger filter area. If there is anything typed in the search box, only transactions containing that text will be shown. If the status dropdown has been changed from “Any status,” then only transaction of the selected type will be shown. In addition, there are two important settings in the filter options section on the KMyMoney Settings dialog. If the Do not show transactions prior to field is set, only transactions on or after that date will be shown in the ledger. If the Do not show reconciled transactions box is checked, then no reconciled transactions will be shown.

There is no global search and replace function in KMyMoney. Nevertheless, it is easy to change a payees name: select the Payees view and find the entry with the name you want to change. Click with the right mouse button on the payee, and select Rename payee. Enter the new name. Since the transactions only use a reference to the payees record, all transactions now show the new name.

There are many reasons KMyMoney might crash or give an error instead of starting up normally. You first need to determine if the problem is with the software or with your data. So, the first thing to try is to launch KMyMoney without opening your data file. If the application starts up, but crashes when you try to load your data file, try loading an older copy of your file. (You did make a backup, didn't you?)

If KMyMoney crashes on startup without trying to load a data file, there may be a problem with your installation. See the section on installing KMyMoney or the section on getting help.

Usually the reason for this is that you didn't run 'make install' as root. This step actually copies all of the icons, and other files needed by KMyMoney to run properly. If you did run this, make sure you passed the correct prefix to cmake at the beginning of your compile. See the section on compiling from source for more information.

Usually the reason for this is that you didn't run 'make install' as root. See the previous question/answer for more information.

The most important option is -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. This specifies where you want to install KMyMoney; it should be the same location where KDE is installed. In many distributions, cmake will find this location on its own, but if it can't, you can use the command line tool kde-config --prefix to read out what the prefix should be. For Red Hat®-based distributions, including Mandriva and Fedora, KDE is installed in /usr.

Another useful option is -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE. Normally this is not set, but if it is set to Debug, it will allow you to build KMyMoney with debug symbols, which help in trying to figure out crashes. This option is essential if you are a developer and want to contribute.

Usually the reason for this is that one of the developers made a change to the code that requires a clean reconfigure. See the end of the section on compiling from source for instructions. If you follow these steps carefully, and still have a problem compiling, please post a message to the KMyMoney Developers List at (kmymoney-devel kde.org), and include the failed output of either the cmake or make command.

Yes, KMyMoney will work without a full KDE desktop, but you will have to install the basic KDE libraries first. The easiest way to do this is to use your distribution's package management system, which will handle these requirement automatically. If you are going to install from source, you will probably need development versions of those libraries; refer to these instructions for details.

Here are some external sources which might give your more information: ofxblog and ofxhome.

First, KMyMoney uses the KDE settings for language, so first, make sure that your region and language settings are correct. If they are, the most likely reason is that no one has offered to translate it yet. Translating KDE/Qt™-based applications is very simple, and does not require any programming skills. If you would like to translate KMyMoney into your language, please post a message to the proper team mailing list. Should you fail to find your language in the list or could not contact the team members please mail directly to the KDE translation mailing list (subscription required) and we will give you the details on how you can easily provide a translation for KMyMoney.

The use of KMyMoney2 was a historical legacy from when the project went from KDE 1 to KDE 2. To avoid changing the name every time there was a new KDE version, we decided to stick with KMyMoney.

The first version of KMyMoney that was considered sufficiently stable was labeled 1.0, even though it ran under KDE 3. As the project is now becoming more closely aligned with KDE we decided to use the same major release number.

The developers encourage your feedback. See the section on Contacting the Developers / Reporting Bugs.