P.S. I ran the installer from a local administrator account and as administrator, just in case...
----- Regards, Pedro Albuquerque Em 11/09/2026 às 05:47, "Pedro Albuquerque via gnucash-user" <[email protected]> escreveu: >Hello, > >Liz, John, thank for your help. > >Liz, I did a full search on the C: drive and found no other file. > >John, I completely uninstalled GC using Revo Uninstaller, which also cleans >all the remains. I then searched the registry for 'gnu' entries and deleted >them all. I downloaded GC again, from the official website, obviously >(https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/5.16/gnucash-5.16.setup.exe), >and reinstalled it with all default values. > >And that solved the problem. It seems GC doesn't like it when I put it in a >different folder. Maybe you can get a clue for how to prevent this from >happening. > >Many thanks everybody, for your time and trouble. > >----- >Regards, >Pedro Albuquerque > >Em 10/09/2026 às 21:56, "Liz" <[email protected]> escreveu: >>On Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:44:03 +0000 >>Pedro Albuquerque via gnucash-user <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Murugan, for the suggestion. >>> >>> If I rename the file like that, .local becomes the file extension. >>> Not sure if that is what you want. Anyway, GC still starts in >>> English. >> >> >>A few Windows versions back, Windows started saving config files in >>another place and using the saved one, not the one you changed. >> >>I haven't used Windows for many years, so if you can't find a secret >>cache of config files used in preference to your one, others will have >>to assist. >> >>Liz > > >_______________________________________________ >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.
