[GNC] Problem changing report configuration location

[Mark Itzcovitz]

Thanks, Geert, I should have noticed that.  However, it didn't solve
the problem - see my answer to Chris for further info...

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 10:59, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> The parameter changes in you environment.local file should be preceeded with the line
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> [Variables]
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> And only then you can specify the path changes you want.
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> Regards,
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> Geert
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> Op dinsdag 9 november 2021 10:05:03 CET schreef Mark Itzcovitz:
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> > Hi David,
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> > Thanks for the thought, but that's not the problem.  I changed the
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> > value of GNC_DATA_HOME to C:\Temp and it still doesn't work.
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> > From Process Monitor I can see that it's reading my environment.local
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> > but it's going straight to the default location when it opens
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> > saved-reports-2.8.
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> > Mark
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> >
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> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 01:14, D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > Mark,
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> > > I'm no expert, but my experience of the various cloud services under
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> > > Windows is that their mappings as folders is not always what they appear
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> > > to be. You may be running into some issue related to the following email
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> > > on the list earlier:
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> > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-July/097159.html
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> > >
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> > > David
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> > > ________________________________
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> > > From: Mark Itzcovitz
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> > > Sent: Mon Nov 08 17:36:44 EST 2021
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> > > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> > > Subject: [GNC] Problem changing report configuration location
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> > >
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> > > I'm trying to change the location of the report configuration files,
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> > > so I can put them on OneDrive to share between machines.  I've created
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> > > the file environment.local in the same place as the file environment,
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> > > C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash, containing this line:
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> > > GNC_DATA_HOME=C:\Users\mji\OneDrive\Software\gnucash_data_home
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> > > I've also created the gnucash_data_home directory.
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> > >
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> > > My problem is that GnuCash is still using the file saved-reports-2.8
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> > > in C:\Users\mji\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash.  Can anyone suggest why that
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> > > might be?
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> > >
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> > > As you'll have gathered, I'm running on Windows.  My GnuCash version is
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> > > 4.5.
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> > >
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> > > Thanks,
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> > >
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> > > Mark
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