[GNC] Problem changing report configuration location

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Tue Nov 9 05:59:27 EST 2021


Hi,

The parameter changes in you environment.local file should be preceeded with the line
[Variables]

And only then you can specify the path changes you want.

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 9 november 2021 10:05:03 CET schreef Mark Itzcovitz:
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for the thought, but that's not the problem.  I changed the
> value of GNC_DATA_HOME to C:\Temp and it still doesn't work.
> 
> From Process Monitor I can see that it's reading my environment.local
> but it's going straight to the default location when it opens
> saved-reports-2.8.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 01:14, D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Mark,
> > 
> > I'm no expert, but my experience of the various cloud services under
> > Windows is that their mappings as folders is not always what they appear
> > to be. You may be running into some issue related to the following email
> > on the list earlier:
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-July/097159.html
> > 
> > David
> > ________________________________
> > From: Mark Itzcovitz
> > Sent: Mon Nov 08 17:36:44 EST 2021
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: [GNC] Problem changing report configuration location
> > 
> > I'm trying to change the location of the report configuration files,
> > so I can put them on OneDrive to share between machines.  I've created
> > the file environment.local in the same place as the file environment,
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash, containing this line:
> > GNC_DATA_HOME=C:\Users\mji\OneDrive\Software\gnucash_data_home
> > I've also created the gnucash_data_home directory.
> > 
> > My problem is that GnuCash is still using the file saved-reports-2.8
> > in C:\Users\mji\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash.  Can anyone suggest why that
> > might be?
> > 
> > As you'll have gathered, I'm running on Windows.  My GnuCash version is
> > 4.5.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Mark
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