[GNC] Gnucash 5.13 not saving Chart of Account preferences

[aeg]

 Stan and Sherlock,
I am pleased to report that the solution suggested by Sherlock has worked, without destroying any of the other settings I'd set previously, so thank you both for your help.
Regards,AlanG


    On Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 21:01:02 BST, aeg <aeg21212-forum at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
  Stan,
Many thanks to you and to Sherlock.
I've only ever used the normal installer before, but I'll try this, and assume it's just a case of taking the most up-to-date exe from the stable releases (gnucash-5.13-2025-10-13-git-5.13-9-ge22c406547+.setup.exe) and installing it as normal. If not, please let me know if I need to take any special precautions with this type of installation.
Thanks,AlanG

    On Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 16:42:42 BST, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:  
 
 Thanks for the update, Alan. Removing the read-only status was a good
thing. I think your next step is what Sherlock suggested yesterday:

On 2025-10-14 09:26, Sherlock wrote:
> Hi AlanG,
>
> A fix for this issue was provided on October 6th.  I suggest pulling a
> more recent nightly build to confirm: https://code.gnucash.org/builds/
> win32/stable/

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2025-10-15 01:48, aeg wrote:
> Stan,
> 
> Thank you for your very clear step-by-step guide.
> I found that both boxes were marked, so I cleared them, and restarted
> the computer in case that might also help.
> I then opened GnuCash and set my preferred layout, entered a transaction
> so that I had a reason to save and closed the file.
> When I re-opened it, the layout had unfortunately reverted to the
> default again.
> 
> I checked the properties of each folder in the file path from AppData to
> the .gcm file, and for each folder there is a blob with minus sign in
> the box next to 'Read-only', whereas the box next to that of the .gcm
> file is empty,
> 
> AlanG