Users preferences not being saved

[Derek Atkins]

cosmodog at comcast.net writes:

> Any ideas why gnucash would silently fail to save preferences?

None -- it should.  Check the timestamp on ~/.gnucash/config-1.8.auto.

> I am trying to turn off SXs so gnucash won't hang when starting. But
> the changes I make in the preferences pane are not being retained.
> Even if I do gnucash --nofile and save a new book.  I don't see any
> messages on the xterm or the console complaining about not being able
> to write to the preferences file.  I  became unable to save
> preferences a few weeks ago, before I started having problems with
> "since last run" dragging, but I was just putting up with it. Now I
> really need to figure it out.

Is your filesystem full?  Over quota?  Can you create other files?

> I am using gnucash 1.8.9 and xdarwin from fink.

Hmm, I don't know enough about MacOS, but it should work fine..

> TIA,
>
> Richard

-derek

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