Cannot save settings/preferences

[David Carlson]

On 6/15/2014 5:15 PM, el_piel wrote:
> I am having troubles saving preferences.  I have gnucash 2.4.11 on my laptop
> running Win 7.  Everything works fine, except that I cannot save any
> preferences.  In particular, I cannot stop the tip of the day messages at
> startup, or the auto save notification.  When I uncheck those settings in
> the appropriate menu, they do not stay unchecked if I look in the menu
> again. What steps do I need to take to investigate and repair this problem?
> I would really like it if gnucash would not prompt me for a save every 5
> minutes.
>
> I have noted a similar post,
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Windows-XP-Saving-Presences-td1430893.html.
>
> There are no abnormal characters in the paths identifying either the gnucash
> application data or the specific file data. I don't know where to find a
> config or settings file, and I wouldn't know how to properly change the
> contents anyway.
>
> It may be important to note that the data file that I am trying to access
> was initially created on another computer, but also by me.
>
> If I can supply any further information to help me solve this problem I am
> happy to do so.
>
> Thank you for any ideas and assistance.
>
>
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Follow this link:
<http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_backup_my_GC_environment.2C_including_preferences.3F>

If you have correctly installed Gnucash in Win7 the configuration files
should be under your /username/\.gconf\apps\gnucash.    If you do not
have full read and write privileges to that directory you may need to
uninstall and re-install GnuCash.

There have been some changes to this file structure in the 2.6 series,
but I think that is the correct location for the 2.4 series.

David C