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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] > > > 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 > > > > > -- > David Carlson > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
