Yes I'm running Flatpak GnuCash 5.14 and yes if I close a couple of registers the .gcm file is updated both when I "X" out of GnuCash or use File >> Quit. On restarting GnuCash the Registers I closed are no longer visible, so settings are being persisted.
Cheers David H. On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 at 12:35, David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
