Fresh install of gnucash 2.5.6 crashes on windows

[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 13 October 2013 18:37:34 John Ralls wrote:
> 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)
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:45 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> > wrote:> 
> > On Oct 13, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> > > I think the issue is the lack of a .gconf(d) directory on a fresh
> > > install..> 
> > 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.

Yep, it surely will be :)

I've got a couple of very busy days ahead of me for my job, but I'm collecting all issues 
to improve the preferences migration before the next release.

Geert