[GNC] Saved Report Configurations Missing After Upgrade to v3

Thomas Forrester tlforrester at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 10:48:11 EDT 2018


Hi Geert,

The old saved-reports-2.4 file was found in the  %USER%\.gnucash folder.
None of the 3.-variations you mention apply here.

When I located the 2.4 file, I backed up the new 2.8 file to take it
completely out of the picture, then copied the 2.4 file over to
%APPDATA%\GnuCash
to see what would happen.  If nothing, I figured I'd rename the file from
2.4 to 2.8, but it worked with the 2.4 name.  Is this alright?  Will it
cause problems later?  Is there a better way?

A little history on this installation.
I'm not sure I'd remember the initial installed version, but it was back in
the fall of 2016 when I installed GnuCash on Windows in whatever manner the
installer prescribed as the standard install.  I LOVE the true double entry
accounting GnuCash allows over the typical one-sided manner in which most
financial programs (e.g., Quicken, et al) provide.  My only disappointment
has been in the reporting formats.  Not so much what is in the reports or
the ability to customize them; that's all perfectly acceptable.  It's the
overall report styling.  I don't understand why on the Income Statement,
for instance, there's a small font "Net Income for Period" line following a
large, bold "Total Expenses" line.  The formatting is whack, and I just
don't see an easy way to correct it or any resources to teach me how. (Know
of any?  Please share!)  That got me thinking that, since MySQL was an
option, I could just ODBC in with Microsoft Access and potentially use it's
report writer to generate prettier reports than I know how to make within
GnuCash.  I never really got to report designing in Access, but it sure got
me over some initial reconciliation pains!  But regardless, and for better
or worse, I left the backend for GnuCash as MySQL.  When I upgraded to 3.x,
that is the environment it found itself upgrading.

I'm slipping out of scope on the OP topic here, but (in the Windows
environment, if that matters) what is the best practice for data storage?
Am I setting myself up for problems using MySQL?  Has my use of MySQL
contributed to the missing report situation on upgrade to 3.x?

Thanks,
Tom




On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:09 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 05:38:47 CEST schreef Mike Churchill via gnucash-
> user:
> > Ok Tom.  Good to hear you were successful.  I wondered about the 2.8
> also,
> > but it seems to be the right file.  Mike
> >
> The 2.8 version is a small oversight. It was decided fairly late in the
> last
> development cycle to name the next big release 3.0. Before that we were
> aiming
> for 2.8 as a natural follow up for 1.8->2.0->2.2->2.4->2.6.
>
> The release numbering scheme was changed, but we omitted renaming the
> saved-
> reports file.
>
>
> Tom, out of curiosity: where did you find the old saved-reports-2.4 file ?
>
> Normally gnucash does migrate the metadata to %APPDATA%\GnuCash on the
> first
> time you run a gnucash 3.x version from %USER%\.gnucash.
>
> I can imagine a few situations where that won't happen:
> 1. %APPDATA%\GnuCash already exists
> 2. Can't create %APPDATA%\GnuCash (in which case the trace file should
> have a
> warning)
> 3. %USER%\.gnucash doesn't exist
>
> A variation of 3. can be that you changed the HOME variable in the gnucash
> environment file or you have set GNC_DOT_DIR to point to another directory.
>
> In those cases the migration will never happen and the user should do this
> manually.
>
> Geert
>
>
>


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