[GNC] Reconciliation has transfer funds popup

[David Carlson]

In the last few minutes, when I closed GnuCash and tried re-opening it from
the Mint Applications menu it had completely lost the GCM, and opened
with the offer to create a new file.  So I went to Thunar and looked up the
data file on an attached thumb drive and opened the file by double-clicking
in Thunar.  Then it opened with the previous account window arrangement.  I
did a couple of transactions, downloaded stock prices, saved the file and
suddenly it was gone.  The lck file was still in place in the data folder.
This time none of the usual  methods worked to restart Gnucash.  I am now
in the process of shutting everything down because I need to reboot the
computers.  We shall soon see if I need to uninstall and reinstall
gnucash flatpak.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>> --
>> David Carlson
>>
>

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David Carlson