[GNC] Reconciliation has transfer funds popup

[David H]

Yes I'm running Flatpak GnuCash 5.14 and yes if I close a couple of
registers the .gcm file is updated both when I "X" out of GnuCash or use
File >> Quit. On restarting GnuCash the Registers I closed are no longer
visible, so settings are being persisted.

Cheers David H.


On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 at 12:35, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, The locations that you indicate are the same as where I looked.
> However, Gnucash is shooting itself in the foot and deleting the GCM and
> settings instead of saving them.  Do you have flatpak release 5.14 on your
> machine and does it save preferences and correctly update the CGM for your
> data file when you close the program?
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David C.,
>>
>> Are you looking in the right place ? The flatpak version on my Ubuntu
>> 25.10 pc stores the .gcm file in /home/<user
>> id>/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash/books.  I vaguely recall I
>> may have copied my Windows .gcm file there originally but aren't 100% sure
>> after all this time :-)
>>
>> Clicking on the GNC_CONFIG_HOME folder link in Help >> About takes me to
>> an empty folder - /home/<user
>> id>/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/gnucash/
>>
>> Hope this helps and Happy New Year.
>>
>> Cheers David H.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 at 09:48, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> After another day's use, changing certain preferences, saving the data,
>>> and
>>> closing the program,  I re-opened the program to find that the GCM file
>>> had
>>> been overwritten with an empty file.  Luckily I had kept a backup under a
>>> different filename, so I deleted the empty file and replaced it with a
>>> new,
>>> correct gcm file for that book.
>>>
>>> Then I restarted GnuCash and found that the preferences had now reverted
>>> to
>>> the defaults again.  So I looked to see what was saved in the
>>> configuration
>>> folders, and I found nothing there except empty folders.  Is this normal
>>> for the flatpak version?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM David Carlson <
>>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I just discovered that the Since Last Run Assistant has started running
>>> > when I open my data file with release 5.14 flatpak version in Linux.
>>> There
>>> > is something else going on as well, but the reason this happened is
>>> that
>>> > Flatpak does not automatically pick up preferences from the gcm or
>>> from an
>>> > existing environment file, but it sets a new environment with all the
>>> > default settings.  Strangely, I have been entering data using this
>>> Flatpak
>>> > instance for several days, including frequently closing the program to
>>> > update the gcm file, but I didn't see the SLRA start when I open the
>>> data
>>> > file until after I had manually run the SLR once in that instance.
>>> >
>>> > The odd thing is that I had copied the gcm file for that book into the
>>> > correct location for flatpak but somehow I thought I was opening the
>>> > flatpak version, it apparently slipped and instead opened the the data
>>> file
>>> > that I had configured the flatpak instance to open with the old
>>> release 4.8
>>> > version of Gnucash which I had not disabled.  I didn't notice that
>>> error
>>> > until I saw that different account registers were open yet I was
>>> looking at
>>> > transactions that I had entered earlier today.
>>> >
>>> > Looking at '
>>> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#System-wide', it
>>> > does not appear that there is a straightforward way to copy the
>>> > configuration from a Windows machine to a flatpak instance or even to
>>> > figure out what information should go into a flatpak override file to
>>> match
>>> > an existing windows configuration.  I cannot remember exactly which
>>> > preferences I have changed from the default over the last several
>>> years.
>>> >
>>> > I am trying a new (for me) technique to try to delete the old thread
>>> > history that Google hides from me so it doesn't reappear in my next
>>> > message.  Lets see if it works.
>>> > --
>>> > David Carlson
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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