Windows XP Saving Presences

[Michael & Penny Novack]

ONE possible cause of this (plagues me) is that characters which are legal
in a Windows user name (Windows log in name) are not necessarily legal in
the path names used to save the settings changes. Not easy for the GnuCash
team to fix as the problem lies within .gnome stuff they are using and
outside the control of the project.

ROFRLOL, since we've probably just lost the main hard drive on the desktop,
I'll be able to address that as no terribly big deal if I have to reinstall
everything, to use a new (valid for GnuCash) Windows account name (when I
restore from data backup, just redo the parts that are path dependent
instead of restoring those)

Michael

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:20 PM, gnubie <oneilian at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello.  I hope this is the correct forum location for this.
>
> I am having troubles saving preferences.  I installed 2.2.8 gnucash on my
> work laptop running WinXP Pro SP3.  Everything works fine.  I then
> installed
> it on my home PC running WinXP Pro SP3.  However, I am not sure what
> happened when I installed, but I cannot save any preferences.  In
> particular, I cannot stop the tip of the day messages at startup, or the
> auto save notification.  When I uncheck those settings in the appropriate
> menu, they do not stay unchecked if I look in the menu again.  Further, I
> noted that gnucash is not starting up loading the last accounts I had been
> using like on my laptop.  I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling with
> no
> change in behavior.  Is there a config file or registry where I can tweak
> those and other settings?  I'd like it to not give me a daily tip, start
> with the last accounts I had open and not prompt me for a save every 5
> minutes.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ian
>
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