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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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. >> > -- 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.
