[GNC] Cannot change preferences

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 17:26:47 EDT 2018


On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On 2018-08-17 13:18, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the feedback. My request to try with dconf-editor was not
> meant as
> > a workaround, but rather to determine if values can be changed at all.
> >
> >>From your explanation I still can't infer this exactly, but I readily
> admit my
> > instructions were very vague.
> >
> > Can you try one more experiment:
> > - Make sure you don't have gnucash running
> > - Start dconf-editor
> > - Change /org/gnucash/general/date-format to 1 (just using your example
> here,
> > any preference change is fine for this test)
>
> I got this far in the instructions above, but then no pup-up button
> popped up.  Did not go any further.
>

The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just
appears in the bottom bar of the window.

Colin


>
> > - Be sure to click on the apply button that pops up
> > - Quit dconf-editor and start it again
> > - Navigate to /org/gnucash/general/date-format
> >
> > => What is it set to now ?
>
> Perhaps a bit of background might be in order.  I spend the months of
> May to September in Canada, and November to March in Thailand.  (October
> and April are migration months, spent partially in either location or
> anywhere in-between.)
>
> I have desktops in both locations. So twice a year all my data files are
> transferred between the two computers.  Among them are of course my
> gnucash data files. Since 2009 when I started using gnucash I have been
> moving those files back and forth without difficulty in using gnucash
> after each move -- until the latest one at the end of last March.
>
> Up until sometime between November 2017 and March 2018 while in Thailand
> I changed the account separator from the colon to the backslash and
> started to use the colon in file names and codes.  On opening gnucash in
> the computer after return to Canada last April I received the message
> asking me either to change the separator back to the colon or delete
> colons from account names and codes.
>
> At the time I assumed that the situation described in the previous
> paragraph was caused be the fact that while all the files in my home
> directory were transferred, key setup files in my user dot directories
> were not.
>
> I consequently thought that all I had to do to fix that situation would
> be to open the preferences in the Canada computer and change the
> separator from colon to backslash. It was at this point that I
> discovered that I no longer had access to the preferences.  In order to
> post transactions I removed all colons from account names and codes, but
> I am still denied ability to change preferences thereby limiting my use
> of gnucash.  So the objective now is to restore to me full use of gnucash.
>
> Regards, Ken
>
>
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