File storage question...should be easy fix

[Sara Veldhoen]

Yay, it finally worked out, creating the directory by hand like you said. Thanks for helping me out all!

> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 19:23:26 +0000
> Subject: Re: File storage question...should be easy fix
> From: randy.orrison at gmail.com
> To: ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk
> CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> 
> It works for me on Windows 7, on two PCs so far.  I usually forget to
> do it first, so I close GnuCash, create the directory (mkdir
> %APPDATA%\GnuCash|), move the .directories into it, then edit the file
> and restart GnuCash.  Works fine.
> 
> Things to check...
>   Try creating the directory before launching GnuCash
>   Make sure that you've used a forward slash in the environment file,
> not a backslash
> 
> You could also attach the file to a message to the list, so we can
> check if there's anything non-obvious wrong with it.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 March 2012 14:45, Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > It's possible this is a Windows 7 issue. The environment file fix works on XP
> > (my main machine), but I remember a few months ago I installed GnuCash on my
> > son's Windows 7 machine, and I wasn't able to relocate the folders in this
> > way. He wasn't fussed about it so I didn't look any further into it at the
> > time...
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