Problem with Reports

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Feb 23 10:20:20 EST 2007


I already told you..   Look in $HOME/.gnucash/

-derek

Quoting Gilles Gariepy <gariepy.g at videotron.ca>:

> Derek,
>
> Thanks for the prompt response. I guess I should have been more explicit in
> my explanation ;>)...I understand the error message but I can't find this
> saved-reports file on my hard drive. I have gnucash 2.0.4 installed through
> macports. I have searched through my HDD but this file is not there. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Gilles
>
>
> On 2/22/07 11:02 PM, "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quoting Gilles Gariepy <gariepy.g at videotron.ca>:
>>
>>> I have a quick question...whenever my gnucash starts up, I get  a series of
>>> pop-up windows that have the following message:
>>>
>>> "A custom report with this name already exists. Either rename the report to
>>> store it with a different name, or edit your saved-reports file and delete
>>> the section with the following name: MANU1"
>>
>> This dialog/warning was added in 2.0 because this would cause 1.8
>> to crash.  The warning is there to tell you about the problem
>> so you can manually correct it.
>>
>>> Where exactly is this "saved-reports" file supposed to be? I must 
>>> admit that
>>> I find the reports more mystifying in 2.0.4 than it was in 1.8. I 
>>> have never
>>> figured out how to rename a report, only how to "add" one.
>>
>> The file is ~/.gnucash/saved-reports...
>>
>> You rename a report in the options dialog.
>>
>>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>>>
>>> Gilles
>>
>> -derek
>
>
>



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