Where does gnucash store report ingo in Windows 7???

Laurence Nagel lwn at omega-enterprises.net
Tue Jan 15 13:21:03 EST 2013


Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! %HOME% is set to C:\SPB_Data, which 
is a directory used by PSPICE, but I do not have write permission to 
this directory.  Sure enough, C:\SPB_Data contains the "lost" 
directories .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome2, .gnome2_private, and .gnucash.

Problem solved!!!

Larry
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On 1/15/2013 7:23 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On 15-01-13 15:49, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Laurence Nagel 
>> <lwn at omega-enterprises.net> wrote:
>>
>>> That's the way gnucash works in Linux, and I believe that's the way 
>>> it worked in previous versions of on Windows.  Now there are no 
>>> .gconf or .gnucash created, and when I copy those files to my 
>>> directory from Linux they are ignored. gnucash/Windows 7 now looks 
>>> in a different place!  By the way, I'm using version 2.4.11.
>>>
>> Might %HOME% or (less likely) %GNC_DOT_DIR% be set to point somewhere 
>> strange in the environment?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>>
> Oops, I misunderstood your question. I thought you were wondering if 
> setting %HOME% to something different could fix the problem, but your 
> question was rather if %HOME% is set to something unusual and hence 
> the cause of the problem. Sorry for the noise.
>
> It could be useful for us to know what %HOME% is set to actually, to 
> evaluate if it might contain invalid characters as Michael suggested 
> in the old thread referred recently in a similar thread (titled 
> "preferences") by David T.
>
> Geert
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