[GNC] Account Register not Populating

[David Carlson]

An update on my experience:
I am running Release 5.9 in Windows 10 with a data file on a USB key.  For
some reason it is not stable and it hangs and/or crashes from time to
time.  It did it again this morning.  Since I wanted to go back to a backup
from yesterday in order to recover I decided that I needed to see whether I
could use the link in the About screen to recover a copy of the user
configuration as was discussed here yesterday.  I thought I had shot myself
in the foot by using GnuCash to Save As the backup to the desired
filename.  Luckily, the link took me to the directory that contained the
[almost] current .gcm file that had been in use before the crash so I was
able to recover it to use with the recovered data file.

That link makes it an almost trivial exercise to find and back up that
stuff from time to time.  Thanks to the developers for that new feature!




On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's the first two links that are probably of more interest to a user, the
> other links relate to where gnucash and it's components are installed.
> You'll be comforted to know that I also only have a single lonely
> environment file in that same folder :-)
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 at 05:12, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The link that I clicked on was the next to last one  GNC_CONF.  The only
>> thing I found there was a lonely file called environment.  Not sure what it
>> contains.  The GnuCash backup instructions state that the stuff is in the
>> Registry.  Right now I don't have time to do any research on that.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 1:04 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You'll be relieved to know that it's still there in the latest version
>>> (5.9) then :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers David H.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 at 04:28, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
>>> stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-11-15 08:44, David Carlson wrote:
>>>> > Also, as R Losey noted earlier, the locations of most of those other
>>>> 'user'
>>>> > files is nicely shown in the 'About' window..  The only problem I
>>>> have with
>>>> > that is that it works nicely in Linux, but in Windows 10 I was unable
>>>> to
>>>> > find them there.  I think one needs to check the page [
>>>> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Questions_about_Backups] for
>>>> information
>>>> > relating to Windows 10/11 installations.
>>>>
>>>> That's odd. I have Windows 10 and GC 4.14, and Help » About gives me
>>>> "the location of those other user files", as shown in the attachment.
>>>> They're even clickable links, and I've just verified that they open the
>>>> right folder.
>>>>
>>>> Which GC version do you have that doesn't show them? Hopefully it's an
>>>> earlier version not a later one -- it would be a pity if that useful
>>>> information were removed.
>>>>
>>>> Stan Brown
>>>> Tehachapi, CA, USA
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>>
>> --
>> David Carlson
>>
>

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David Carlson