Accounts sort order not saving

[David Carlson]

On 4/4/2015 8:35 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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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Geert,

Looking at the .gcm file, I think that there is some personal 
information in it.  Is the part that you need to see sufficiently 
obfuscated or is there an easy way to sanitize it?
I had already deleted todays work and renamed yesterday's last backup to 
the original filename before I saw your message, but the sort order is 
still scrambled, so I still need to follow your instructions to restore 
the sort.

David C