GNU Cash installation issue

[Leslie Radke]

Hi Geert,

I was wondering if my message had reached you, or if it was still held up by 
the list moderator. I was just getting ready to write and ask when I saw 
your email.

Windows 7 has changed the user accounts from C:\Documents and Settings to 
C:\Users but I assume you knew that. I think that started with Vista but I 
only had Vista for a short time before upgrading to Windows 7.

I installed version 2.4.3 and also tried running it as an administrator, but 
with no change. There are all the same issues as before.

I thank you for all your help with this, and I'm happy to keep going if it 
is helpful to you. But at this point I'm thinking of going back Quicken or 
trying out Moneydance. I like the program. It seems well thought out and put 
together -- able to do all the things I want it to do for personal finance. 
But I've had a few too many problems in just one month: this installation 
problem, not being able to open my finance file last week on my laptop, and 
I've also had a problem with the reconcile feature. I reconciled one of my 
bank accounts in January, but when I went to reconcile February's statement, 
one of the transactions had converted back to "c". I did the reconcile again 
and once again marked this translation as part of reconciling. That zero'ed 
everything out and I finished, only to still have the transaction marked as 
"c" instead of "y." I couldn't find any way manually to change the "c" to 
"y", only to move from "n" to "c". Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

Ron

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From: "Geert Janssens" <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:19 PM
To: "Leslie Radke" <rlradke5 at att.net>
Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: GNU Cash installation issue

> On vrijdag 4 maart 2011, Leslie Radke wrote:
>> Hi Geert,
>>
>> Please find the  c:/Program Files (x86)/gnucash/etc/gconf/2/path file
>> attached.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
> Thank you. The file suggests gconf should be able to write to
> $(HOME)/.gconf
> From the file:
> # Give users a default storage location, ~/.gconf
> xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
>
> So far we have always assumed $(HOME) on windows points to
> c:\Documents and settings\<your username>
>
> But perhaps that assumption is not always correct.
>
> But before anything else, I reread the complete thread and as far as I can
> tell you are trying all this with GnuCash 2.4.0. If so, can you update to
> 2.4.3 first ? There have been a number of fixes in Windows since 2.4.0.
> Perhaps this problem is already solved.
>
> If not, what happens if you run GnuCash as an administrator ?
>
> Geert