On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Ken Heard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2018-08-17 13:18, Geert Janssens wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback. My request to try with dconf-editor was not > meant as > > a workaround, but rather to determine if values can be changed at all. > > > >>From your explanation I still can't infer this exactly, but I readily > admit my > > instructions were very vague. > > > > Can you try one more experiment: > > - Make sure you don't have gnucash running > > - Start dconf-editor > > - Change /org/gnucash/general/date-format to 1 (just using your example > here, > > any preference change is fine for this test) > > I got this far in the instructions above, but then no pup-up button > popped up. Did not go any further. > The apply button doesn't really popup (for me on Ubuntu 18.040) it just appears in the bottom bar of the window. Colin > > > - Be sure to click on the apply button that pops up > > - Quit dconf-editor and start it again > > - Navigate to /org/gnucash/general/date-format > > > > => What is it set to now ? > > Perhaps a bit of background might be in order. I spend the months of > May to September in Canada, and November to March in Thailand. (October > and April are migration months, spent partially in either location or > anywhere in-between.) > > I have desktops in both locations. So twice a year all my data files are > transferred between the two computers. Among them are of course my > gnucash data files. Since 2009 when I started using gnucash I have been > moving those files back and forth without difficulty in using gnucash > after each move -- until the latest one at the end of last March. > > Up until sometime between November 2017 and March 2018 while in Thailand > I changed the account separator from the colon to the backslash and > started to use the colon in file names and codes. On opening gnucash in > the computer after return to Canada last April I received the message > asking me either to change the separator back to the colon or delete > colons from account names and codes. > > At the time I assumed that the situation described in the previous > paragraph was caused be the fact that while all the files in my home > directory were transferred, key setup files in my user dot directories > were not. > > I consequently thought that all I had to do to fix that situation would > be to open the preferences in the Canada computer and change the > separator from colon to backslash. It was at this point that I > discovered that I no longer had access to the preferences. In order to > post transactions I removed all colons from account names and codes, but > I am still denied ability to change preferences thereby limiting my use > of gnucash. So the objective now is to restore to me full use of gnucash. > > Regards, Ken > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
