GnuCash folders in Vista home folder

[Derek Atkins]

Did you restart after changing it?   You need to make sure that
the gconf service gets restarted, too.

-derek

Dollar Bill <scottdstone at gmail.com> writes:

> yes.  i put exactly that in the bat file.  then, deleted the files e.g.
> gconf, .gnome2, .gnuchash, .gconfd, etc. from my home folder and relaunched
> the app.  i had to manually open my accounting files since i also deleted
> the recently used file from the home folder.  GnuCash simply built another
> set of the files back in my home directory.
>  
>
> Andy Den Tandt-2 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> found one post that suggested altering 
>>> the gnucash.bat file.  
>> 
>> Are you refering to this comment about the batch file?
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503722
>> 
>> In Gnucash.bat adding the lines
>>     set HOME=%LOCALAPPDATA%\GnuCash
>>     mkdir %HOME%
>> just before
>>     start gnucash-bin
>> should do the trick. 
>> 
>> That will ensure that these files from now on get (re-)created in 
>> C:\Users\JohnDoe\AppData\Local\GnuCash
>> 
>> But this will not remove the old garbage. You have to delete the old files
>> yourself. 
>> Just be sure that your main data file isn't in that folder ;-)
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: gnucash-user-bounces at gnucash.org
>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces at gnucash.org] Namens Dollar Bill
>> Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2009 17:15
>> Aan: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Onderwerp: GnuCash folders in Vista home folder
>> 
>> 
>> GnuCash installs the .gconf, .gnome2, .gnuchash, .gconfd, .gnome2_provate
>> folders plus a few other items (logs and recently used file) in the Vista
>> home folder -- where vista keeps special purpose user folders that link to
>> documents, favorites, pictures, music, video etc.  I'd rather not clutter
>> that area up w/a bunch of other folders.  
>> 
>> Can someone pls tell me how to move the GnuCash files elsewhere?  I've
>> looked in the forum and found one post that suggested altering the
>> gnucash.bat file.  I tried the approach but couldn't make it work.  
>> 
>> many thanks.
>> scott.
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