Version 2.6.3 won't save when there are open Reports

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 15 August 2014 14:39:01 Roger wrote:
> All I remember is that I was using Kubuntu when I compiled some 2.4
> version and since then switched to Xubuntu but now it is quite a mess
> with still bits of Kubuntu.  Then I tried uninstalling the hand built
> version and replace it with the ubuntu repository version 2.6.3.  In
> both cases I just used the default installation paths and did pay any
> attention to what they were.

Yes, things can get complicated... I guess we'll never know what precisely got the guile 
precompilations mixed up. The most important is that is works now.

> 
> What I don't understand is how after I cleaned out all the files or at
> least supposedly removed all previous files including those in
> .gnucash & .cache that after re-installing gnucash it still
> remembered my account file.  There must still be some other gnucash
> related files maintaining some preferences?

GnuCash stores part of its preferences in dconf which is a central preferences system 
for gnome. You can edit these preferences using dconf-editor.

Geert