[GNC] Issues

[Greg]

Hi Adrien, I called the other person last night, on the phone, and we 
played with Edit/Preferences/Windows/Width, changing the character 
spacing. He was elated that it "worked", not entirely.  He had to 
shorten the name on the accounts.  But it gives him some ideas to play 
with. I'll have to have him try to put the tabs vertically.

How version 2.4.13 started acting flaky with Windows 10 on both our 
machines, suddenly, all the reports, just disappeared.  Well, now we're 
using 5.3.  At least with mine, everything seems to work fine.

I'm very elated with version 5.3 on my machine. There are many new 
features that work GREAT! Now, to get 5.3 properly working on his machine.


On 8/29/2023 12:01 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> See the wiki FAQ about upgrading.
>
> The suggested path is to upgrade to the end of each major version, 
> running "Actions > Check & Repair > Check & Repair All" at each step.
>
> So your path would have been:
>
> 2.4.13 -> 2.4.15 (final 2.4.x version, might be optional) -> 2.6.21 
> (last 2.6.x version) -> 3.11 (last 3.x version) -> 4.14 (last 4.x 
> version) -> 5.3 (or current release)
>
> Cleanups and migrations are done along the way. Skipping right to 5.3 
> might not bring everything forward properly.
>
> And of course the usual caveat of always keeping a backup copy of your 
> file at each stage applies.
>
> Between 2.6.x & 3.x some other file locations were changed. These are 
> documented on the Wiki and in the release notes. If you find custom 
> saved reports and other things besides data didn't make it through an 
> upgrade, the migration might have not completed properly and you'll 
> have to do some things manually. (most systems upgrade fine. I don't 
> know if it was ever discovered what caused this issue)
>
> Now that you're already on 5.3 and have opened the data file, I'm not 
> sure what you will encounter or what problems might result. This 
> particular issue I would find strange to be associated with the 
> migration.
>
> There is a Tab Width preference you could maybe play with. Also 
> consider temporarily moving the tab bar to say the left or right so it 
> is vertical and see if more than 4 open. Also consider changing the 
> preference to open new tabs in new windows instead and see if the 
> limitation persists.
>
> You mention this is on a laptop. Is there room in the tab bar for 
> another tab or is it full at 4 + Accounts? (5 tabs total)
>
> If so, a bug report might be in order.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/28/23 1:59 PM, Greg wrote:
>> Hi Adrien,  I realize that 2.4.13, was extremely old, but it 
>> completely worked for me.  Whenever I upgraded, I always had a new 
>> set of issues, I really didn't have time to deal with.  2.4.13 
>> started acting a little flaky with Windows 10, so I thought it may be 
>> time to install 5.3.  When I installed 5.3 on my machine, I first 
>> completely deleted 2.4.13 , including the configuration and report 
>> files.  I then snooped all over the computer and deleted anything 
>> pertaining to GNUcash.  I then ran CCleaner and Privazer and deleted 
>> any residual registry entries.  I then rebooted and did a fresh new 
>> install of GNUcash 5.3.   Everything worked great.  I was first 
>> impressed by the Account Reconciliation report, which 2.4.13 lacked.
>>
>> I'm familiar with the style sheets and created custom ones for our 
>> purposes. I'll have to check the fonts, as you stated.
>>
>> I  suppose  I should have said, "Can only display 4 account register 
>> tabs on the screen, besides the Accounts tab." Normally, the register 
>> tabs "shrink" to allow more account registers to be displayed, but 
>> his doesn't. Could that be in Edit/Preferences/Windows?
>
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