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[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:18 PM Stu Perlman <sgperlman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually had tried editing my gnucash.gcm file before I posted my
> question earlier. After saving my changes (make the transfer column wider
> for all accounts) and then restarting the application, it seemed to have no
> impact.  I rebooted my system just now; that seems to have done the trick.
>
> Thanks for the link.  So much great info on the wiki.  Is there a master
> index or TOC for that site?
>
> I am copying the list so everyone can benefit.

I found it by following a link from the FAQ
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Questions_about_Backups

which linked to
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup

which has a link to the address I mentioned.

If you have any more questions please be sure to copy the email list!
thanks.


>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 7:21 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 4:07 PM Stu Perlman <sgperlman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> John, this may be a silly question but GC keeps track of register column
>>> widths from session to session after they are changed.  Where does that
>>> information get saved?  I thought it might be in books<my book>.gcm but
>>> I'm
>>> not so sure.
>>>
>>
>> You'll find that information here:
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
>>
>> For example, on my linux system running GnuCash 3.8 I found the column
>> widths stored in
>> /home/user/.local/share/gnucash/books/bookname.gnucash.gcm
>>
>>
>>
>>
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