Hi Tarik,
GnuCash maintains configuration settings within the %APPDATA% folder on
Windows. It should not have been necessary to remove/rename the folder
to launch GnuCash 5.14 and doing so is the likely the cause of the
"encoding issue" you experienced. I suggest reviewing:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations and attempting to
reestablish the appropriate configuration for your environment.
Regards,
Sherlock
On 12/29/25 6:55 AM, tarik semrade wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> Let me explain in more detail. On my Windows machine, I wanted to
> upgrade to the latest release version, maybe 5.14 and not 5.15.
>
> When I installed this version, the SQLite file would not open because it
> was using the old folder in |%APPDATA%| that had been created by the old
> version (5.5).
>
> When I removed (or renamed) this folder and let the new version create
> its own folder, the SQLite file finally opened. However, some characters
> in the accounts appeared incorrectly, such as “,” because I use the
> French version.
>
> It looks like an encoding issue.
>
> I don’t know how to fix this or how to make both my GnuCash applications
> on Linux and Windows use the same encoding. After this experience, I
> went back to the old version, restored the old |%APPDATA%| folder, and
> everything was fixed naturally.
>
> That being said, the second issue I mentioned is the path problem:
>
> I want to use an absolute path so that attached files can be opened on
> both Linux and Windows.
>
> I know that the path separator is not the same character on Linux and
> Windows. For now, I only manage attached invoices on my Windows machine,
> and this has been done from the beginning using an absolute path.
>
> I have remote access to this machine, so using relative paths would also
> be fine. I think GnuCash may not handle the Windows path separator
> correctly, because on my Linux machine I looked at a path stored by my
> Windows machine and the “/” was replaced by “_”, which cannot work
anyway.
>
> The idea is that if I clone my repository on a Windows machine, the
> files can be found easily. If it also works on Linux, that would be a
plus.
>
> I think my first post was not clear. I am sorry for the misunderstanding.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tarik
On 12/29/25 7:06 AM, tarik semrade via gnucash-user wrote:
Hello Sherlock
I have clarified the issue. You can take a look at this email:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-December/119000.html
Le 28/12/2025 à 21:56, Sherlock a écrit :
Hi Tarik,
First off, 5.15 isn't scheduled to be released until March 29th 2026.
The latest release is 5.14.
Second, when you open your book with the latest Windows version, where
do these strange characters appear?
Regarding linked documents, I suggest using "Linked Location" as this
option allows you to specify a URL that can be used to identify the
file location (for example, to a shared GitHub repository). When
using "Linked File", relative paths can point to a shared file
system / mount point. If you used "absolute paths on Windows" with
"Linked File", you'll only be able to directly access the file on
Windows.
Regards,
Sherlock
On 12/28/25 8:31 AM, tarik semrade wrote:
Hello,
I am a GnuCash user and I use GnuCash on two machines: Linux and
Windows.
I switched to the SQLite file format in order to use a Python library
and be able to test and parse the SQLite database.
One issue I am facing concerns the use of *absolute paths on
Windows*. When I started using GnuCash on Windows, I attached files
using absolute paths. After some time, I realized that Windows paths
could cause problems: when I open my book on another machine, the
linked files are not recognized.
For this year, after resetting all the accounts, I want to start a
new year with a more flexible method, since I use GnuCash from both
Linux and Windows.
I used to use GitHub to synchronize the files. The GnuCash version on
Windows is 5.5, while on my Ubuntu 25 system I use version 5.15. The
book opens correctly without issues on both systems. However, one
thing I tested was updating the Windows version of GnuCash to the
latest release to match my Linux machine. I noticed that when I open
the book with the latest Windows version, some strange characters
appear. I reinstalled the 5.5 version since it works good.
If you have any recommendations to help resolve the issue with linked
file paths, I would be very grateful.
Tarik
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