Invoice Formatting (Windows)

Adam gnucash at snowstone.org.uk
Tue Apr 12 17:36:04 EDT 2016



On 12-Apr-16 11:59 AM, Liz wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:43:31 +0200
> Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>
>> It won't work due to the way Windows treats the directories under
>> program files. When an ordinary user makes a change to a file in one
>> of those directories, Windows stores this change in a copy of the
>> file in a virtual store instead of in the original file. GnuCash
>> however won't see this virtual store. Instead it simply continues to
>> work with the original file. For the exact details on how this
>> virtual storage of Windows works I suggest you use google or MSDN.
> Having been caught with this "feature" a few years back
> I suggest a search of the hard drive for all files of that name.
> The name (in W7) was unchanged, just stored elsewhere which got
> priority.
> However, here, making a custom invoice is best, because your changes
> will be overwritten when you update Gnucash,
>
>
That all makes sense, thanks both.

Adam
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