very weird quirk noted, copying one computer to another

[John Ralls]

On Oct 13, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Simon Bryant <simonbry at telus.net> wrote:

> Not exactly. I open gnucash, all's well, there is no data of course just "unsaved file".
> I select FIle>Open and the following appears as expected:
> <PastedGraphic-1.tiff>
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> Note there is NO thumb drive visible in the list of items on the desktop, even though it is plugged in and is actually showing on my laptop's "desktop". You suggest that I can navigate to the file in the thumb drive, but I have not been able to do that directly; none of the available options leads there! So to access the gnucash file in the thumb drive, I must first drag it from the thumb drive onto the "desktop". Then it does appear in the list of available files in response to the gnucash File>Open sequence, as below, 9th from the top, "stbPCGnucash test.gnucash". Uhmmm, is the space in the name a problem? (But that is a file I created subsequent to this problem occurring, so I doubt that).
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> <PastedGraphic-2.tiff>
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> I can then open the "stbPCGnucas test.gnucash" file by the File>Open sequence, and voila! My checking account has just two entries of the hundred or so it's supposed to, with the filter set to "show all".
> Hmmm a new thing just happened as I went through this sequence once again. The Tools>General Ledger sequence resulted in an incomplete set of ledger entries, which I could correct to the complete year to date by using the "filter by" function. It was set to a set specific date range which I never entered, and was very, very very slow to accept the selection of "select all".
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> So, looks like there must be some stored gnucash "filter settings" on my laptop, that I need to eliminate. WHERE ARE THEY? And how can i eliminate them?
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> I hope this is helpful to you, to understand what I am experiencing and to maybe adjust the program so this doesn't occur…

The thumb drive icon on your desktop isn't a symlink in your Desktop folder, it's displayed there by Finder; you can turn it off in Finder's preferences. The actual mount points for all additional drives (additional to your Macintosh HD partition, that is) is in Volumes. Click on the '/' in the sidebar of the file picker, double-click on Volumes from the resulting list, and you should see your thumb drive.

If you're using the Gnucash.app downloaded from our website, the gnucash state files are in $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash (The first screenshot); if not, they're in $HOME/.gnucash, which you must use the Go>Go to Folder... menu item to access. (The third screenshot)

I don't know offhand if filter settings are stored in preferences, but if they are those are stored in $HOME/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist. (Second screenshot)

In both cases $HOME is an environment variable that points to your home folder, the one in Finder's sidebar with your username. Another way of spelling it to Finder is '~', illustrated in the third screenshot which shows the input sheet after picking Go>Go to Folder... from the Finder menu.

Regards,
John Ralls








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> -Simon-
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> On 2014-10-13, at 8:31 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Oct 13, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Simon Bryant <simonbry at telus.net> wrote:
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>>> It has always worked correctly in every respect on my desktop computer, and continues to do so. However the problem I noted happens if I try to transfer the file to my laptop. That's all.
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>> So to be absolutely certain, you're opening GnuCash, selecting File>Open, and then navigating to the file on the thumb drive and selecting it, right? And when you do the same on the desktop, that opens correctly with all of the data visible, right?
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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