[GNC] Colum headers missing on all accounts

[David H]

Sorry, looks like that's a left click on the separator, right click tends
to display the context menu :-)

Cheers David H.


On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 at 12:13, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Home after a bus ride and now able to take a look.  Glenn is correct, that
> is indeed where the preferences for GnuCash are in Win 10 Pro - it's in the
> C:\Users\<user name>AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books folder and is called
> whatever you saved your file as eg xxxxx.gnucash.gcm.  Deleting or
> renaming the file in my case gives me a basic register view and I lose all
> my settings for open register tabs, yada, yada, yada.  One of my register
> segments looks like the following....
>
> [Register 7175cf7f4c095fe37cd54271eb7bef36]
> date_width=99
> num_width=54
> reconcile_width=25
> balance_width=80
> transfer_width=763
> debit_width=80
> credit_width=86
>
> This is it after I shrunk the Reconcile file down to nothing...
>
> [Register 7175cf7f4c095fe37cd54271eb7bef36]
> date_width=99
> num_width=54
> *reconcile_width=1*
> balance_width=80
> transfer_width=763
> debit_width=80
> credit_width=86
>
> So you should be looking for a column width = 1 NOT 0 !!!!
>
> You should also notice the column that has been shrunk right down has a
> slightly thicker dividing line - see below, the line between Transfer and
> Deposit is thicker than the other separator lines.  It is possible to
> carefully right click on the thicker line and drag it right to re-expand
> the column...
>
> Cheers David H.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 at 11:44, Scott Traurig <scott.traurig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That approach failed, Glenn. Please read my email chain and you'll see
>> that.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 20:35 Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, did you look in the "books" folder?
>>>
>>> C:\Users\<NAME>\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books
>>>
>>> Each book will have it's own .gcm file
>>>
>>> In it, the columns will be something like this:
>>>
>>> date_width=177
>>> num_width=74
>>> reconcile_width=239
>>> balance_width=140
>>> transfer_width=318
>>> debit_width=140
>>> credit_width=140
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 7:10 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are also settings in the Registry ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers David H.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 5 Dec 2022, 10:00 am Scott Traurig, <scott.traurig at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Stan,
>>>> >
>>>> > That FAQ entry looked promising, but it does not solve the problem.
>>>> There
>>>> > are no entries in the .gcm file showing zero width to edit.
>>>> >
>>>> > Worse, uninstalling GnuCash and deleting the entire C:\Users\my user
>>>> > name\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash directory, including all .gcm files such
>>>> that
>>>> > they would be reconstituted from scratch, does not work either.
>>>> >
>>>> > Interestingly, somewhere in the system it remembers what book I had
>>>> open
>>>> > even through an uninstall/reinstall cycle. I suspect it has something
>>>> to do
>>>> > with that.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> >
>>>> > Scott
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 5:30 PM Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm
>>>> >
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On 2022-12-04 13:06, Scott Traurig wrote:
>>>> > > > GnuCash 4.12 on Windows 10 Pro.
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > I was rearranging the sizes of the columns in one of the account
>>>> > > > ledgers and now both the Transfer and Reconcile ("R") column
>>>> labels
>>>> > > > are gone.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > As you might expect, yours is a Frequently Asked Question. You'll
>>>> want
>>>> > > to bookmark the FAQ at
>>>> > > <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ>
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Your specific question is answered at
>>>> > > <
>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.3F_Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > It tells you how to restore a disappeared column.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > While you're at it, you might want to bookmark the documentation
>>>> portal:
>>>> > > https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Stan Brown
>>>> > > Tehachapi, CA, USA
>>>> > > https://BrownMath.com
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