Unsaved Book

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 2, 2017, at 1:56 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> On zaterdag 2 september 2017 08:19:55 CEST isuy wrote:
>> Hi, there was a power outage while I was working on GnuCash. Since then,
>> whenever I start the program, instead of a window showing the opened
>> gnucash file, it shows two buttons, "Save" and "Close"  with "Unsaved
>> Book" on the title bar. I can still open the gnucash file from that
>> window, but this is not normal. Another problem is that I can't change
>> anything on preferences window. All check boxes and radio buttons are
>> fixed.
>> 
>> My OS is FreeBSD(ver 11.1) and I uninstall and removed ~/.gnucash and
>> then reinstalled it, but the problem is still there.
>> 
> 
> These preferences are stored in OS X' native defaults system. It appears the 
> power outage has corrupted these in some way. These preferences are stored in 
> /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Preferences/gnucash.plist
> You can try to restore a backup of this file from before the power outage or 
> reset your settings by removing that file.
> 
> Note the Library folder is hidden from the finder so to access it you'll have 
> to use Go->Go to folder... (this is from OS  X 10.7, the name and menu 
> location may have changed meanwhile).

Umm, FreeBSD != MacOS, though part of MacOS is based on FreeBSD.

For FreeBSD I'd expect that the preferences are stored and managed with GBus as they are on Linux.

Regards,
John RAlls