Unsaved Book

[Geert Janssens]

On zaterdag 2 september 2017 15:57:01 CEST John Ralls wrote:
> > 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

Oops, I completely misread that. I had read "OS X based on FreeBSD xyz). Sorry 
for the noise...

Geert