Language change mystery

[rmomxtx at gmail.com]

Thanks Derek,

I changed the OS language back to English and restarted the computer,
several times. This did not change the language back to English. 

Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access blocked GnuCash from making
changes to the data file. At first, it even blocked adding a new
transaction. I turned off the controlled folder access feature.

I read the instructions at the link. The version of GnuCash I have installed
is 2.6.18. I tried to follow the instructions to edit the environment file
at c:\\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash. But I don't have an editor for
that type of file or an option to open it as administrator. So, I'm not sure
what to do with that.

Might it work to uninstall and reinstall the program? Does the uninstall
remove the data files? I have a backup, just a matter of making sure it is
up to date.

Thanks much,
Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: martes, 20 de febrero de 2018 10:00 a. m.
To: Roger Oliver <rmomxtx at gmail.com>
Cc: Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Language change mystery

Hi,

Roger Oliver <rmomxtx at gmail.com> writes:

> I live in Mexico so when my tech works on my computer he changes the 
> operating language of Windows to Spanish. Somehow that changed the 
> language of GnuCash and I can't seem to get it to change back. The 
> names of the accounts are the names I gave them in English but all the 
> menus and tabs are in Spanish. It even changed the primary currency to the
Mexican peso.

GnuCash uses the system locale to choose its display/menu language.
You will need to change the OS language back to English -- or you will need
to specifically reconfigured GnuCash to run in English.  See
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale

> It may have something to do with Windows Defender. For some reason it 
> blocked GnuCash from making changes to the file. It was treating 
> GnuCash as a virus. I think we fixed that.

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-derek

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