[GNC] Colum headers missing on all accounts

Sun Dec 4 21:45:02 EST 2022

Respectfully, some of you are not reading my emails ;-) ;-)

The .gcm file is not, repeat not, the problem in this case. This is a new
bug that is not covered by the FAQ.

Proof: I was just able to solve the problem a few minutes ago by deleting
the registry information under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Gsettings. That
was where the problem was. I did not try to identify precisely which
registry key was at fault, I do not have sufficient knowledge of the
software to do so efficiently. Instead I uninstalled, deleted the registry
info, manually deleted the %appdata%/gnucash folder for good measure, then
reinstalled.

And, because this bug (and it is a bug) affects literally every book on the
machine, I dare not replicate it again on any of my production machines. I
will have to grab another machine here that I am not using for production,
install GnuCash, and try to replicate it there so I can submit a proper bug
report.

Thanks,

Scott

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 9:26 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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