[GNC] gnucash 4.8 does not save settings

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/14/2023 7:17 AM, Carsten Hütter wrote:
> Hi Papa Oz!
>
> First of all: I'd recommend updating to a more current version both of
> GnuCash (latest 4.x is 4.14 from 2023-03-25) and Finance::Quote (latest
> is 1.54 from 2022-12-26). GnuCash 5.0 still has some issues.
>
> The developers decided to publish the stable GnuCash Linux versions as
> flatpak, not as deb packages. So in order to get the cutting edge
> version without building from source code, you have to install flatpak.
> I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, only limited experience with other Linux
> flavors (switched from OpenSUSE sometime in the last century or
> millennium), but the following instructions should work more or less: 

..........

BUT .... while you might as well start out with an up to date version, 
having an older version is not likely the problem.

The FIRST thing to check whenever an application fails to save 
"preferences", etc. is to find out where these are saved and that you 
have write permission for that file. I wrote "application" rather than 
"gnucash" because it is a common problem with any new application you 
begin using. Understand? The application can work OK just being able to 
read that file getting the default values for those preferences, etc. 
but not allow you to save changes to them upon closing.

Even if the developer included an error message during closing, might 
have forgotten to include a "pause" << the close operation has to be 
allowed to complete, so without a pause the error message would flash by 
so fast as to have been invisible >> So we don;t normally get a 
meaningful error message explaining WHY changes not saved. That's why I 
say check/rule this out first.

Michael D Novack