[GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts

[Geert Janssens]

Ok,

Unfortunately that version had a bug which means the metadata migration only ran partly. As a 
result your saved report configurations didn't come over.

It takes 3 steps to fix this:
1. Undo the folder renaming you did of the .gnucash directory in your home directory
2. Remove directory '%APPDATA%\GnuCash' (you can enter %APPDATA% in the navigation bar 
of your Windows explorer and then remove the GnuCash child directory you see in that 
directory)
3. Update to gnucash 3.3. You should in any case. *lots* of bugs have been fixed since gnucash 
3.1

Upon first start of this most recent version you should see a Migration notice popping up. If so, 
your saved report configurations should be available again.

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2018 17:46:53 CEST schreef davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz:
> It was 3.1 and just updated ... yet to use the new one though.
> 
> I have created and saved a config and then when revising some bits, just
> save the report config.  I'll have a look at your suggestions tmrrw
> sometime .
> 
> Many thanks Geert ..
> 
> David B
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> Sent: 02 October 2018 07:07
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts
> 
> What version of gnucash are you running ?
> 
> In addition there is a subtle difference between report configurations you
> explicitly save and reports you keep open when quitting gnucash.
> 
> The former are stored in a file named saved-reports-x.y. The ones that are
> still open while gnucash exits will be saved in GNC_DATA_HOME/books/
> <yourbook>.gcm. These will be restored automatically when you restart
> gnucash.
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2018 05:27:00 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash-user:
> > I don’t know what to tell you on that front. Are *any* files in the
> > location newer?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > David
> > 
> > > On Oct 1, 2018, at 6:33 PM, <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>
> > > <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello David,
> > > 
> > > I have looked at that location before but notice that the file
> > > “saved-reports-2.4” modification date is earlier in the year.  This
> > > doesn’t align with the date of reports I have saved only just days ago.
> > > It can be viewed using Notepad,  and wonder if it appends to the top
> > > of the text?  There are no files dated September and would have
> > > thought that the mod date would change accordingly.
> > > 
> > > I am using a different computer to store the different organisation
> > > data so have a work around for that.  Once one knows the finer
> > > points it does make things a little easier!!
> > > 
> > > Thank you ….
> > > 
> > > David B
> > > 
> > > From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com>>
> > > Sent: 29 September 2018 15:46
> > > To: davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> > > <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz> Cc:
> > > gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts
> > > 
> > > Info about file locations is available at
> > > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-setti
> > > ngs.h
> > > tml
> > > <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings
> > > .
> > > html>.
> > > 
> > > David T.
> > > 
> > >> On Sep 29, 2018, at 7:54 PM, <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> > >> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>>
> > >> <davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> > >> <mailto:davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz>> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> Hello David, tnx for the confirmation.  It was only that I had
> > >> another GNUCash installed on another machine, totally separate that I
> > >> concluded that was probably the issue.   It was also that when
> > >> changing a report configuration, it never asked to save the file, as
> > >> it does when one changes a transaction.  I thought then it must be
> > >> elsewhere and
> > >> save automatically.
> > >> 
> > >> Where are the configs saved; is it amongst the User files of windows?
> > >> 
> > >> I would have thought that Configs were fundamental to each work
> > >> book and wonder why that was never a default?
> > >> 
> > >> Thank you for being prompt with the reply.
> > >> 
> > >> David
> > >> 
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com>>