Problem locating Data File in Windows 7

[Maf. King]

On Monday 22 February 2010 13:25:10 trythis wrote:
> twodogron wrote:
> > Having originated this post I think it is now going way off beam......
> > I do know (to some extent) both the Windows and Linux systems and
> > understand fully about permissions and file rights etc.. etc......
> > I am using Windows 7 Professional NOT Window 7 Home Edition which I seem
> > to think some subscribers
> > Ron..
>
> I am using 7 pro.
> To find the ownership you must right click on your partition, folder, or
> file: click Properties: click Security: click Advanced: click Owner. If the
> owner is not based on the current OS users, which for some of your
> un-rebuilt partitions wont be unless you have done this, there will be old
> XP system files you might not be able to delete.  And it might be messing
> with gnucash, but that sounds unlikely after MAF Kings comments on Gconf.
> If you installed Gnucash in a drive that isnt owned by Win7, however, it
> could be an issue...possibly...maybe

Hi,

The folder ~/.gnucash stores some state data, like what reports were open last 
time you quit GC, custom reports etc. - I don't know exactly what could be in 
there, but I do know that you shouldn't put your data file in the ~/gnucash 
folder and expect it to survive for very long, as GC could just overwrite 
it....

The gconf program is a part (AFAIK) of the GNOME desktop libs, and it stores 
various prefs/last opened files/window sizes for any GTK apps you may have 
(GC, GIMP, gnumeric, whatever...) Just deleting the whole ~/.gconf tree 
shouldn't have any catastrophic effects - it should get recreated when 
required (ie when you start GC).  I really know nothing about GC on any 
release of Windows, but I think that you should be able to see a gconfd 
process running all the while that GC is running. 

Others on this list will be able to help more with gconf debugging etc. - my 
thought is that the gconf daemon may not have permission to write into the 
~/.gconf/apps/gnucash folder somehow.

HTH,
Maf.