Transaction Register Problem

[Les]

On 05/29/2012 02:15 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Mon 28 May 12 20:44:40 Les wrote:
>> Hey All:
>>
>> I have a serious problem that I have been unable to resolve (including a
>> complete uninstall/reinstall).
>>
>> I am on Mint Linux Debian v. 12 with Gnucash 2.4.10.
>>
>> While trying to expand an expense register, I have somehow fubarred my
>> registers (all of them).
>>
>> Before, the registers had the following columns for Assets:
>> Date, Num, Description, Transfer, R, Deposit, Withdrawal, Balance.
>> Now: Date, Num, Description, Transfer, R, Withd. Balance.
>>
>> Before, for Expense accounts:
>> Date, Num Description, Transfer, R, Expense, Rebate, Balance.
>> Now:  Date, Num, Description, Tranfer, R, Rebat, Balance.
>>
>> I have Mac with Gnucash v 2.4.10 installed and it is ok.  I have copied
>> the files from it to the Linux machine but no effect.
>>
>> I then did a complete uninstall of Gnucash using Apt.  I then
>> reinstalled Guncash, used the gnucash files from the Mac and still no
>> effect.
>>
>> There must be some way to resolve this problem.  Any help, greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Les
>>
> Hi Les,
>
> Not exactly clear on what problem you are seeing  - you've given "before" 
> conditions above, but not a "current" condition.
>
> I'm going to have a guess, though.  Have you looked at this?
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.3F_Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F 
>
> Any use?
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
Maf:
Thanks for the suggestion.  (The "now" condition is the current condition.)

That is the issue, but it did not work.  As a matter of fact, following
the instructions, I attempted to resize the columns made it worse.  Now
I have a huge description column and very small columns for the remainder. 

As a test, I created a new account, imported GC's accounts and
everything looks fine.  So, it appears to be a profile issue.  I have no
idea how to fix this.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Les