[GNC] Lost all settings after Flatpak update

[Tommy Trussell]

I should also say, I created symlinks so that my flatpak gnucash
installations on different systems share the same settings folder as a
distribution installed version, were I to revert to it. SO the flatpak
version is doing something completely different, or it blew away the old
settings or something, and I haven't dug around to find out what happened.

On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:29 AM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And just to pile on, I noticed the same in Flatpak running on Ubuntu
> 20.04. This MAY have been after a "secondary" Flatpak update (?). It still
> says GnuCash 4.5 Flatpak inside the application but when you open a
> terminal and run flatpak list I believe it says GnuCash 4.5+.
>
> I was quite surprised because I have run GnuCash for many years now and
> this may be the first time I have had to re-establish register settings for
> my older books. It's been long enough I did not recall what the defaults
> looked like. Apparently I made some choices years ago and haven't looked
> back in a long time.
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 5:10 PM Guille Lopez <willelopz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I can confirm that I observed the same behavior, also with Flatpak in
>> Debian bullseye.
>>
>> It did not mean a big deal for me because I could reapply my settings
>> quickly, but I confirm the issue.
>>
>> Guille
>>
>> On 01/04/2021 16:40, km22 wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am a Debian user and install Gnucash using Flatpak. I think Flatpak is
>> > setup to update automatically and the latest version of Gnucash seems to
>> > have been installed as of March 28th.
>> >
>> > When I started Gnucash I was presented with the typical popup tips and
>> > dialogs to set up a new user file from scratch.  The system did not
>> > remember any of my recently used files.  When I opened a recent gnucash
>> > file it loaded but all my settings are gone. For instance my tabs are
>> > all horizontal at the top of the screen rather than vertically to the
>> > left.
>> >
>> > Do you know whether it is normal for Flatpak updates to case user
>> > settings to be lost?  Is there a way to restore my previous settings?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Ken
>> >
>> >
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