Users preferences not being saved

[Derek Atkins]

cosmodog at comcast.net writes:

> 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.

No, having an empty config.user means gnucash will read _that_ instead
of config.auto.

> -Richard

-derek

>
>
> 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
>>
>> -- 
>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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>
>
>

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available