[GNC] Gnucash issues with Ubuntu on external drives

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 12 maart 2021 13:41:56 CET schreef Jeff:
> My Windows 10 pro server recently went unstable so I am trying to move
> as much data and programs as I can to a new internal harddrive running
> Ubuntu 20.04-LTS. This includes Thunderbird, which I have so far been
> unsuccessful in migrating and that makes it difficult for me to keep up
> with the user list.
> 
> I installed GNC 4.4 on Ubuntu.
> 
> I'm getting some input issues that occur at random intervals. Account
> names that seemingly cease to exist when doing line entry, account names
> hiding when highlighted by mouse or keyboard. Auto-fill that does not
> duplicate the prior entry (previous entry was Hurley, auto fills with Hu
> unless I add the r.)  Minor inconvenient issues at the moment.  Will
> post about them later.
> 
> What I can not find is why GNC will not show all of the mounted hard
> drives, internal or external, when selecting a set of books to open. 
> Nor will it open the last set of books used if it was on an external
> drive (I have not yet tried copying them to the Ubuntu drive to see if
> works) .  I have to go to file manager and double-click the set of books
> I need.
> 
> Suggestions?

I believe the default version of gnucash that ships with Ubuntu 20.04LTS is 
3.8, so I assume you are installing the flatpak version instead.

Flatpaks are sandboxed and may not have the proper permissions to see all 
external locations by default.

You can try to start gnucash from the command line using this command:
flatpak run --filesystem=host org.gnucash.GnuCash

Regards,

Geert