File storage question...should be easy fix

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Wed Mar 7 12:22:41 EST 2012


On Wed, March 7, 2012 12:15 pm, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op woensdag 7 maart 2012 12:07:18 schreef Derek Atkins:
>> Purper,
>>
>> On Wed, March 7, 2012 11:20 am, Purper wrote:
>> > I appreciate your concern!
>> > I run Windows 7, version 6.1.
>> > I have downloaded Gnucash 2.4.10 from gnucash.org and installed it in
>> > the
>> > default directory, C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash
>> > If you don't know what's wrong either, I guess I'm just going to
>> > uninstall it, and try install it again, change the environment file
>> and
>> > see if anything's different.. Sure hope so.
>>
>> Which files (directories) are you seeing still?
>>
>> Geert, does that setting in the env file affect gconf?
>>
> It should. By setting the HOME environment parameter glib believes the
> user's
> home directory is in the new location. All the dependent apps we are using
> should use that as a base for creating their config directories. It has
> worked
> so far for all other users based on the feedback I saw on the bug report.
> So I
> have no idea why it fails for Purper.

Just thinking out of the box --- what if there is another installation of
dbus or gconf somewhere else?

>
> Regards,
>
> Geert

-derek

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