COA Sort Order Not Preserved

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:40 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I am running GnuCash 2.6.7 on Mac OS X 10.10.5.
> 
> I am encountering a small but annoying behavior that I haven’t seen before. I recently upgraded to 2.6.7 and find the the sort order in the Chart of Accounts always defaults to Account Name. I prefer to sort by Account Code, and I find this annoying. I have double-checked this several times, and am reasonably certain that GnuCash is not preserving this from session to session. Is there something I need to do to ensure that this preference is preserved, or is this a bug?

That looks like a bug. It’s supposed to be saved in the .gcm file in $GNUCASH_DOT_DIR/books (~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books for us Mac users, ~/.gnucash/books for everyone else). If it’s there it’s honored, but it seems not to be saved: In fact, File>Save As writes the default value (name) instead of the customized one.

Regards,
John Ralls