Gnucash preferences not being stored/read

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 29 11:01:40 EDT 2010


Mark Jones <authentic8 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 28/04/2010 13:22, Mark Jones wrote:
>> I have a problem with Gnucash for Windows 2.2.9 - remembering any of
>> my preferences (e.g. recently used files, tips window, new accounts
>> list set up window etc.). I understand that these settings are
>> stored under C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\.gconf\ . I can see
>> the folder and the settings relevant to Gnucash in it but Gnucash
>> does not appear to be reading this.
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for the replies so far. In the absence of a reason for why
> Gnucash stopped picking up settings from the .gconf folder, could
> anyone tell me how I could just get a fresh version recreated on my
> system? Even when I uninstall Gnucash and delete the folder it doesn't
> get recreated again when I re-install Gnucash. I have also tried
> setting up a new fake set of accounts and changing some preferences
> but no .gconf folder is created.
>
> Does Gnucash normally recreate a base settings folder at start up, or
> re-installation, time if it's missing? At least knew if it was
> supposed to do that, I'd have something to go on. It obviously created
> it once so if I knew when it is supposed to so I could try to get it
> to do it again.

It should re-create it at startup.

> Looking at the contents of my .gconf folder, there are several
> subfolders named after particular categories of settings, and in each
> subfolder is also a single settings file called %gconf.xml. All these
> files look healthy to me and examining the contents I can see my
> settings in them which look as they should (e.g. the settings file in
> the "history" folder contains a reference to my accounts). The only
> thing I am slightly suspicious of is the settings file under the top
> folder "apps" is empty.

Maybe the gconfd-2 executable isn't communicating correctly with gnucash?
Did your firewall settings change?

> Would it help if I sent a zipped copy of the settings folder to
> someone? (As far as I can tell there's no confidential data in it and
> it's a small size.)
>
> Thanks.
> Mark

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-derek

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