Accounts sort order not saving

[David Carlson]

On 4/4/2015 8:02 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 4/4/2015 7:43 AM, David Carlson wrote:
>> On 4/4/2015 6:25 AM, David Backhouse wrote:
>>> I have set up accounts with account codes, made account code the first
>>> column in table of accounts, sorted into desired order - and looks 
>>> OK. But
>>> then when I close and open Gnucash again the accounts revert to 
>>> alphabetical
>>> sort by account name. How can I change the default sort order to 
>>> Account
>>> Code when starting Gnucash?
>>>
>>>
>>> David Backhouse
>>>
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>> I do not have that issue in the account window for any recent release 
>> of GnuCash in Windows 7.  Are other prefs, such as auto backup 
>> frequency and tab order being retained between sessions?
>>
>> David C
> However, I did notice something odd.  If I move the account code 
> column to the far left, the triangle symbols for the account tree stay 
> on the left instead of moving over with the account name, then 
> everything gets scrambled and returning the account code column to the 
> original position and trying to re-sort by description or account 
> number fails.  I will try closing the program, but it takes a long 
> time to re-open on this machine.  I am still using release 2.6.5 on 
> this machine.
>
> David C
Note to other users:  My first try to recover failed.  The accounts sort 
is still scrambled after re-starting GnuCash.  Do not try this on your 
original data file.

David C