Accounts sort order not saving

[Geert Janssens]

David,

That should not happen obviously :(

Can you file a bug report and attach the gcm file that is associated 
with your data file ?

You will find gcm files for all your books in the .gnucash directory. 
There is a subdirectory called books in which you will find gcm files. 
These files are named like your book.

So if you have a book called "David.gnucash" the associated gcm file 
will be called "David.gnucash.gcm".

If you have multiple books called "David.gnucash" a sequence number will 
be added like "David.gnucash_2.scm".

As a way to fix your problem: I expect you can restore to a default 
column layout by deleting the entries under the section [Account 
Hierarchy]

But do so after you have attached the file to bugzilla please.

Thanks,

Geert

On Saturday 04 April 2015 08:20:31 David Carlson wrote:
> 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
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