[GNC] Settings not respected

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 12/24/2022 7:00 AM, Jeff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a >10 year (daily) gnucash user, in the last few years on Debian 
> testing. I've not had to change the preferences in years.
>
> A couple of days ago, gnucash stopped respecting all settings:
> * the previous set of accounts was not automatically loaded
> * the previous set of accounts was not available via "recent".
> * having loaded the previous set of accounts, the default light/dark 
> green account theme was not used
> * despite ISO date format being set in Edit/Preferences, the US format 
> was used.
>
> How can I debug what caused this?
>
> Regards
>
> Jeff 

The "what happened" is obvious, no longer accessing the files where this 
information is stored (note recent discussions about where these are 
with regard to back-up). You are back to the defaults.

The "what caused it" not so obvious, and on that depends whether you can 
recover or will have to recreate.

You are NOT telling us what happened in between the last use of gnucash 
(when it was working) and this event of a couple days ago. WHAT did you 
change on your computer?

Michael D Novack