very weird quirk noted, copying one computer to another

[Simon Bryant]

Thanks very much John, and Geert.

a) On my "main" computer I'm using Gnucash 2.6.3
b) On my laptop to which I've been trying to download my gnucash data, I'm using Gnucash 2.6.4
c) I located the thumb drive as John explained (thanks, and for your patience!) and opened the gnucash datafile directly from the thumb drive (ALL other copies of the datafile previously deleted from my laptop, and trash emptied). Same behaviour as before, the checking account shows only two entires despite the filter being set to "view all". The actual ledger entires are there however in general journal.

I'll look at this again later. Any further thoughts or suggestions are much appreciated.

-Simon-

On 2014-10-14, at 1:53 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

> On Monday 13 October 2014 23:16:06 Simon Bryant wrote:
>> 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".
> 
> I didn't want to mention this in previous replies, but I was already 
> surprised you saw all your entries in the general ledger. It defaults to 
> showing only the last month.
> 
>> So, looks like there must be some stored gnucash "filter settings" on
>> my laptop, that I need to eliminate.
> 
> That's what I think as well.
> 
>> WHERE ARE THEY? And how can i eliminate them?
> 
> The answer depends on the version of GnuCash you are using. I looked 
> back through your previous mails but it appears you haven't said so yet. 
> So... What version of gnucash are you running ?
> 
> (Is it the same version on your desktop and laptop btw ?)
> 
> Geert