Users preferences not being saved

[cosmodog at comcast.net]

Thanks for your response, Derek.

While checking the timestamp on ~/.gnucash/config-1.8.auto (per your 
suggestion) I inadvertantly removed an empty file called config.user 
and I can now save preferences.

I guess having an empty file called ~/.gnucash/config.user causes 
gnucash to overwrite config-1.8.auto with defaults.

-Richard




gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/Users/kandr/.gnucash/config.user"

On Jun 10, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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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