Gnucash preferences not being stored/read

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Apr 30 11:49:13 EDT 2010


Mark Jones <authentic8 at gmail.com> writes:

>> It should re-create it at startup.
>>    
>
> OK, thanks. I can safely say, then, that it is not doing that at the moment.

Do you have a gconfd-2 process running?

>>> 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
>
> Windows Firewall is switched off and Kaspersky Internet Security lists
> gconfd-2.exe in the "Trusted" category. Kaspersky has been running on
> automatic for years and I haven't touched any settings for a few
> months.

Just checking...

> Thanks for your help.
> Mark.

-derek

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