Gnucash preferences not being stored/read

[zakina at nz.bluescopesteel.com]

On 4 May 2010 at 13:15, Mark Jones wrote:

> 
> 
> On 03/05/2010 17:43, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Mark Jones<authentic8 at gmail.com>  writes:
> >
> >    
> >> On 30/04/2010 16:49, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Mark Jones<authentic8 at gmail.com>   writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>>>> It should re-create it at startup.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>            
> >>>> OK, thanks. I can safely say, then, that it is not doing that
> at the moment.
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> Do you have a gconfd-2 process running?
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Actually, I have two (lucky me) gconfd-2 processes running at the
> same
> >> time when using Gnucash. Is that normal, and could it cause
> problems?
> >>      
> > I dont know.  Maybe?
> >
> > gconf is really a thorn in Gnucash's side on Windows.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> >    
> 
> It doesn't seem right. I have tried killing one or the other of the
> processes to see if it would then begin reading/storing preferences
> but, 
> alas, no difference.
> 
> Can anyone else using Gnucash for Windows check their Task Manager
> process list while Gnucash is running and tell me whether they have
> one 
> or two gconfd-2.exe processes running? Thanks.
> 

Sorry, more accurately one is in

C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin\

and the other is in

C:\Program Files\gnucash\libexec\ 

both different sizes

-ak