Gnucash 2.6.3 suddenly needs to "Run As Admin" on Win 8.1 AND New Modified Transaction Report

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 12 April 2014 09:21:32 Dave H wrote:
> Is there a way of dropping the updated Transaction Report  (
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727617 ) into the existing
> standard-reports folder and giving it another name such as Transaction
> Report (New) or similar or do I just have to wait for a new version
> that includes it ?

The recommended way to add a non-standard report to gnucash is loading 
it via your user preferences. See this link to learn how to do this:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Load_the_report_from_a_user_account

A couple of notes:
- If you have set the HOME parameter in your environment file as you 
suggest later on in this mail, be sure to look for the .gnucash 
directory in the modified location ({APPDATA}/GnuCash/.gnucash)
- Before to start gnucash you should change the GUID and report title in 
the updated transaction report. The wiki page above has some information 
on that as well more to the top.

> 
> I have tried uninstalling and re-installing 2.6.3, dropped back to
> 2.6.2 and 2.4.15 with the same issue, however I think from memory
> that doing the uninstall using the windows installer doesn't actually
> remove everything such as guile/gconf/etc so maybe that's the issue ?
> 
Probably not, see below.

> Eventually I re-installed 2.6.3 and updated the properties to "Run As
> Administrator" which is a bit strange as it doesn't need this on the
> other 2 pc's I run gnucash on and I'm an admin on all 3 pc's.
> 
> Also gnucash no longer seems to use my preferences that I had set up
> and was synching with a couple of other pc's - presumably as it's now
> running as administrator.  I had updated the environment file in
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash to add the
> HOME={APPDATA}/GnuCash line to it so it would use my preferences etc
> in
> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash as per the bugzilla
> suggestion - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503722
> 
> So if there are any users/devs out there with an inkling of why
> gnucash would suddenly insist on running as administrator and how I
> can resolve it I'm open to suggestions - all ideas gratefully
> received :-)
> 
Have you edited your environment file again after you reinstalled 
gnucash ? This file gets overwritten by each install.

Geert