[GNC] Preferences reset

Glenn Fowler gfowler1 at outlook.com
Sat May 22 09:07:44 EDT 2021


All,
That link is invalid, here is the correct link:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798194

On Sat, May 22, 2021, 7:00 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> I have looked into this some more and filed bug
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?
> id=798194[1] <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798194[1]> with
> more details.
>
> The proper fix would require changes affecting all users, not only flatpak
> users (changes to
> how we store our preferences in GSettings). That's probably out of
> proportion with the benefit
> we'd have from this.
>
> Luckily there is a workaround that is fairly simple, involving two shell
> commands. They are
> detailed in the bug report.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> Op zaterdag 3 april 2021 22:52:31 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > I haven't noticed anything and so far everyone who's reported this uses
> the
> > flatpak build. My guess for the most likely cause is that we upgraded the
> > Gnome runtime and there's some change to GSettings in there.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> > > On Apr 3, 2021, at 9:33 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > So your file history was gone too.  I wonder if there is a comparable
> > > problem with Mac computers?
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 11:05 AM Mike <txtinman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I forgot to add that when I clicked
> on
> > >> the desktop icon to start GC it opened a new database with no entries
> as
> > >> if
> > >> I were starting GC from scratch. I had to find the file and start it
> from
> > >> the file manager. I was worried that my data would be gone, but it was
> > >> only
> > >> my preferences that were gone.
> > >>
> > >> Mike
> > >>
> > >> On 4/3/21 9:49 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Do you mean that GnuCash reset your preferences for you without any
> > >> action
> > >> on your part?
> > >>
> > >> That sounds like a bug to me.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 8:38 AM Mike via gnucash-user <
> > >>
> > >> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> > >>> I just opened GC today and discovered that I had to reset all of my
> > >>> preferences. None of the entries were affected. Very strange, I've
> not
> > >>> had that happen before. I'm using GC Flatpak version 4.5 on Linux
> Mint
> > >>> 20.1 for those who are interested.
> > >>>
> > >>> Mike
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