[GNC] Problem changing report configuration location

Mark Itzcovitz mark.itzcovitz at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 06:40:12 EST 2021


Hi Chris,

I tried that and it didn't help.

As a test, I changed it to GNC_DATA_HOME={ALLUSERSPROFILE} and it
worked.  Are there some rules about the way a path is written with
GnuCash on Windows?  Maybe '/' instead of '\'?  I will investigate
further, but not just now, I need to get on with the day job.

Mark

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 10:54, Chris Grinton <cgrinton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am able to successfully configure my GNC_DATA_HOME setting in the  C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment file. So maybe try configuring the setting in that file instead of the  environment.local file.
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 20:06, Mark Itzcovitz <mark.itzcovitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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