oops -- should have gone to list, not just Josh

[Mike or Penny Novack]

> This is a great find.  Please file a bug for the issue at
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash>.
>
> When you say "will {,not} work properly", do you mean "basically 
> startup at
> all"?  Like, with a space-and-/or-ampersand-containing username, 
> gnucash won't
> start up, but with a "simple" username it will?
>
>
>  
>
No Josh --- GnuCash more or less works in the sense that you can start 
up, create a set of books, save those, enter transactions in those, save 
them etc. But what you CAN'T do is save any preference changes. You 
can't (for example) turn off  "tip of the day", can't change the save 
frequency from 5 minutes to 10, etc. This is the problem which I 
initially reported having and which I first assumed was something I had 
perhaps done wrong when first using GnuCash. It was after testing, first 
in the "administrator" account and then in a test account without 
administrator privilege (worked fine in both cases) that I tracked it 
down to the account name dependence.

I've joined the devl list and posted a description of the problem there. 
I will of course post a bug report, but am first looking for a developer 
to point me to the right subsystem since if possible, I'd like to 
include the coding error along with the bug report. This isn't an urgent 
bug. More of a nuisance problem than a serious show stopper as likely 
very few XP users have a space in the name let alone an ampersand (it's 
probably the space -- many is the time I have seen a programmer go 
astray incorrectly assuming that a string couldn't legitimately contain 
a space).

MEANWHILE -- if any end users report the problem "can't save preference 
changes" we should ask what user name they use. The easiest work around 
is that they create a special account in which to run GnuCash (changing 
the name of their regular account is NOT simple. Oh yes Windows will 
allow an administrator to do this. But then all the path data in their 
non MS application data becomes invalid -- their T'Bird or F'Fox or 
SeaMonkey, etc. "profiles" won't work without path tweaking --- and that 
includes GnuCash user data (take a look at the contents of your file 
.gtk-bookmarks for example)

Michael

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