[GNC] Clearing filters on account registers

[Paul Chaney--First Certified Arbor Care]

The issue I saw persisted when I kept the data file on the USB stick. 
However, it vanished with a couple of re-starts of my computer.


*Accounts Payable/ Accounting
First Certified Arbor Care
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On 6/10/2024 8:13 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
>
>>   We kept the file in Dropbox, and it worked fine just as
>> long as only one of us used the file at a time.  We tried this with Gnuj
>> Cash, and it did appear to work.  The files would synchronize. But
>> then, it seemed that the files were not synchronizing correctly. So We
>> decided to keep the files on a USB flash drive, and pass it back and
>> forth as needed.
>
> That is of course safer. But best think of a directory being passed
> between, not just the file within that directory.  That is why it is
> working properly on the USB stick and not with dropbox. The mechanism
> that gnucash uses to prevent multiple SIMULTANEOUS users is to check
> the directory the data file is in for the existence of a "lock file".
>
>>
>>   Using the same data file, the behavior is
>> different between computers.  It is as though a setting was made in some
>> software switches that make this happen only on my computer. To address
>> this, I uninstalled, then reinstalled v.Build ID: 5.6+(2024-03-30),
>> which is the same as on the other computer.  I also saved the file with
>> a new name, but that has no effect.
>
> Things like preferences, what filters are set, etc. are NOT kept in
> the "data file". So there are other files you would need to be
> sharing. As a general note, in no good software is data stored in the
> program itself. Data belongs is data files, so changing the executable
> (reinstalling) never going to work, or if it did, you probably don't
> want to be using that program.
>
>>
>>
>> However, when I went to open Gnu Cash, a history list of previously
>> opened files appeared in the file menu. This told me that there were
>> settings on my computer that did not get removed during the uninstall.
>
> Those setting would be DATA, not program.
>
>> All of the files at the links in the "about" screen had been cleared,
>> including those in program files and in appdata/roaming.
>
> You, as a computer "user" have a data directory where all your user
> data resides. You get to choose WHERE your gnucash books will get
> stored (what directory) but the program gnucash has to store somewhere
> the location of the last four. THAT is the history data you see in the
> gnucash directory in appdata. In other words, if you want one of those
> recent ones, gnucash can let you select from a list <<if you wanted
> some other data file you would have to type in the name, gnucash only
> remembers "last four".
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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