File storage question...should be easy fix

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 02 February 2011 10:54:30 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Steven Graham wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >    I'm working off a new laptop and Windows 7.  I'm unfamiliar with
> > Windows 7, GNUCash, and Gnome for that matter.  I installed GNUCash, and
> > let it do its thing.  It installed under program files and everything
> > loads and works fine.  I'm getting into a bit of a mess however, in terms
> > of where my data is being stored.  Under my User Account "Steve", several
> > folders are automatically generated everytime I use GNUCash and it
> > clutters up my "Steve" folder.  I specifically created a new folder
> > "GNUCash" within "Steve" to which I saved my .gnucash financial data file
> > to.  I move/delete the folders from my "Steve" folder to "GNUCash", but
> > they continue to reappear everytime I use the program.  Most of them have
> > no data contained within them, and seem to be just taking up space.  The
> > folders are named as follows:
> > .gconf
> > .gconfd
> > .gnome2
> > .gnome2_private
> > .gnucash
> >
> > Is there a way to redirect where these folders live?  Its a bit of an
> > eye-sore under my main account folder.
> > Thanks for any help you can provide!!
>
> Steven,
>
> We are aware of this problem and there is a relatively simple workaround
> until this is properly fixed in the code:
> * locate the file C:\Program Files\GnuCash\etc\gnucash\environment (you may
> have to adjust the path if you didn't install GnuCash in its default
> location) * inside this file, add a line:
> HOME={APPDATA}/GnuCash
> * if you wish to keep the info that was stored in the dot directories
> (.gnucash, .gconf,...) for your future GnuCash runs, move these directories
> from your "Steve" folder into "c:\Documents and
> Settings\Steve\AppData\Roaming\GNUCash"
> I'm not completely sure about the destination directory. I don't have
> Windows 7, so I can't test, but it should be something similar to that.
>
> Does that help ?
>
> Geert

Hi,

Another thought, and bear in mind that I haven't used Windows since version 
98, so this may not even be possible.....

The "dot-folders" are supposed to be hidden - that is what the leading dot 
means to a Linux filesystem.  
Does Windows 7 still have the ability that DOS filesystems had to set a hidden 
flag on a directory name?

If so, rather than delete the offending folders, or forcing them to be in a 
non-standard place, why not set them as hidden?

Maf.