Fresh install of gnucash 2.5.6 crashes on windows

[John Ralls]

On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Ruud Bijnen <r.bijnen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I did a re-install to confirm. Creating the %USERPROFILE%\.gconf\apps\gnucash folder did the trick. (Would of course be great if this could be implemented in the installer or gnucash source)
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> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:45 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Oct 13, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
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> > I think the issue is the lack of a .gconf(d) directory on a fresh install..
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> 
> Likely. Try creating c:\Documents and Settings\User\.gconf\apps\gnucash
> It doesn't need any content, it just needs for the folder to exist.

This is a pre-alpha feature. ;-) Geert was banging away on the migration routines until minutes before firing off the release build.
Now he's got a month to refine things before the next release. I've no doubt it will be much better.

Regards,
John Ralls