Re: Language change mystery mysteriously solved

[Geert Janssens]

The Accounts tab is protected to avoid confusion if people accidentally try to 
close it.

I had figured out a complicated way to work around this, and then thought of 
another by editing yet another file. I'll spare you the details.

Here's the easiest solution:
Click on the accounts/cuentas tab and then select View->Rename page.
You can then give the page any name you like. If you rename it to "Accounts" 
it's back at the Gnucash default in English.

Regards,

Geert

Op woensdag 21 februari 2018 20:40:58 CET schreef rmom...@gmail.com:
> To: Greg Feneis, John Ralls, David Carlson, Derek Atkins
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> I went back and double checked the language settings and there are several,
> some I had overlooked. Region/formats was set to Spanish (españa) and
> Region/location was set to Mexico. I changed the formats to English and the
> location to the US. Next time I opened the program the menus were in
> English.
> 
> 
> 
> The tabs were still in Spanish. General Ledger was still Libro General. I
> closed it and opened the general ledger from the Tools menu and the tab was
> renamed in English.
> 
> 
> 
> I have another computer in Spanish with GnuCash installed for accounting in
> our Learning Center in Puebla, Mexico. That program was in English. So I
> changed every language setting I could find. Restarting GnuCash produced the
> same result in reverse, everything is now in Spanish. Closing and reopening
> the customer tab and the General Ledger tab changed the names to clientes
> and Libro General.
> 
> 
> 
> The accounts/cuentas tab remains in the previous language. If I knew how to
> close that tab and reopen it I am quite sure the name of the tab would
> change appropriately. Would be helpful if someone could coach me on that.
> 
> 
> 
> I did finally get the Program files (x86)/gnucash/etc/gnucash/environment
> opened in Note Pad. Thanks for the tip Greg Feneis as well as the guides
> from the rest of you.
> 
> 
> 
> I think the take away to change languages in an installed version of GnuCash
> is to hunt down all the language options and change them to the language
> you want the program to show.
> 
> 
> 
> Appreciate the help. Just one step remaining: how to close and reopen the
> accounts tab.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger
> 
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Re: Language change mystery (John Ralls)

[Roger Oliver]

Original message

You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the Start
menu and then type the name to find it. Once it's visible in the menu bar,
right-click on it and select "run as administrator" to get the privilege
escalation to edit environment.

 

Regards,

John Ralls

 

Results

John,

 

I opened Notepad as administrator and went looking for the environment file
in C:\\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash. The file shows in explorer
but not in Notepad. A check of the properties doesn't show what kind of file
it is either. 

 

What would happen if I uninstalled and reinstalled the program in the
English environment? I think I've done this before moving to a new computer
and when a laptop crashed.

 

Thanks,

Roger

 

 

 

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Re: Language change mystery mysteriously solved, p.s.

[rmomxtx]

To: Greg Feneis, John Ralls, David Carlson, Derek Atkins

 

p.s. I checked the preferences after I wrote that last email and discovered
that I needed to chance the currency back to $US under Accounts/Default
currency and Reports/Default currency.

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Re: Language change mystery (John Ralls)

[rmomxtx]

Original message

You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the Start
menu and then type the name to find it. Once it's visible in the menu bar,
right-click on it and select "run as administrator" to get the privilege
escalation to edit environment.

 

Regards,

John Ralls

 

Results

John,

 

I opened Notepad as administrator and went looking for the environment file
in C:\\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash. The file shows in explorer
but not in Notepad. A check of the properties doesn't show what kind of file
it is either. 

 

What would happen if I uninstalled and reinstalled the program in the
English environment? I think I've done this before moving to a new computer
and when a laptop crashed.

 

Thanks,

Roger

 

 

 

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RE: Language change mystery

[rmomxtx]

David,

 

The Windows defender controlled folder access feature is confusing to me. Can’t 
figure out how to add a program to the approved list. For now, I just turned it 
off. I couldn’t find the program file for GnuCash to add it to the list. Not 
sure where it is in the Program Files (x86)/GnuCash. 

 

Thinking back, I’m not sure Windows Defender responded to the accounting entry 
or to something else that GnuCash was doing. I got a message similar to when 
you accidently try to open GnuCash twice or after it shuts down improperly. It 
happened several times.

 

Thanks,

Roger

 

From: David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com] 
Sent: martes, 20 de febrero de 2018 11:01 p. m.
To: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us>
Cc: Roger Oliver <rmom...@gmail.com>; Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu>; Gnucash 
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Language change mystery

 

Roger,

Do you have your data file in a user documents folder or sub-folder with full 
read and write privileges?  Windows Defender should not be interfering with 
access to your data file.  If that new Controlled Folder Access feature is that 
fussy...

David C

 

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:07 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us 
<mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us> > wrote:



> On Feb 20, 2018, at 12:14 PM, rmom...@gmail.com <mailto:rmom...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Derek,
>
> I changed the OS language back to English and restarted the computer,
> several times. This did not change the language back to English.
>
> Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access blocked GnuCash from making
> changes to the data file. At first, it even blocked adding a new
> transaction. I turned off the controlled folder access feature.
>
> I read the instructions at the link. The version of GnuCash I have installed
> is 2.6.18. I tried to follow the instructions to edit the environment file
> at c:\\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash. But I don't have an editor for
> that type of file or an option to open it as administrator. So, I'm not sure
> what to do with that.
>
> Might it work to uninstall and reinstall the program? Does the uninstall
> remove the data files? I have a backup, just a matter of making sure it is
> up to date.
>

You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the Start 
menu and then type the name to find it. Once it’s visible in the menu bar, 
right-click on it and select “run as administrator” to get the privilege 
escalation to edit environment.

Regards,
John Ralls



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Re: Language change mystery

[David Carlson]

Roger,

Do you have your data file in a user documents folder or sub-folder with
full read and write privileges?  Windows Defender should not be interfering
with access to your data file.  If that new Controlled Folder Access
feature is that fussy...

David C

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:07 PM, John Ralls  wrote:

>
>
> > On Feb 20, 2018, at 12:14 PM, rmom...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Derek,
> >
> > I changed the OS language back to English and restarted the computer,
> > several times. This did not change the language back to English.
> >
> > Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access blocked GnuCash from making
> > changes to the data file. At first, it even blocked adding a new
> > transaction. I turned off the controlled folder access feature.
> >
> > I read the instructions at the link. The version of GnuCash I have
> installed
> > is 2.6.18. I tried to follow the instructions to edit the environment
> file
> > at c:\\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash. But I don't have an editor for
> > that type of file or an option to open it as administrator. So, I'm not
> sure
> > what to do with that.
> >
> > Might it work to uninstall and reinstall the program? Does the uninstall
> > remove the data files? I have a backup, just a matter of making sure it
> is
> > up to date.
> >
>
> You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the
> Start menu and then type the name to find it. Once it’s visible in the menu
> bar, right-click on it and select “run as administrator” to get the
> privilege escalation to edit environment.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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Re: Language change mystery

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 12:14 PM, rmom...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Thanks Derek,
> 
> I changed the OS language back to English and restarted the computer,
> several times. This did not change the language back to English. 
> 
> Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access blocked GnuCash from making
> changes to the data file. At first, it even blocked adding a new
> transaction. I turned off the controlled folder access feature.
> 
> I read the instructions at the link. The version of GnuCash I have installed
> is 2.6.18. I tried to follow the instructions to edit the environment file
> at c:\\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash. But I don't have an editor for
> that type of file or an option to open it as administrator. So, I'm not sure
> what to do with that.
> 
> Might it work to uninstall and reinstall the program? Does the uninstall
> remove the data files? I have a backup, just a matter of making sure it is
> up to date.
> 

You do have an editor: Notepad. It comes with Windows. Just click the Start 
menu and then type the name to find it. Once it’s visible in the menu bar, 
right-click on it and select “run as administrator” to get the privilege 
escalation to edit environment.

Regards,
John Ralls


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RE: Language change mystery

[rmomxtx]

Thanks Derek,

I changed the OS language back to English and restarted the computer,
several times. This did not change the language back to English. 

Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access blocked GnuCash from making
changes to the data file. At first, it even blocked adding a new
transaction. I turned off the controlled folder access feature.

I read the instructions at the link. The version of GnuCash I have installed
is 2.6.18. I tried to follow the instructions to edit the environment file
at c:\\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash. But I don't have an editor for
that type of file or an option to open it as administrator. So, I'm not sure
what to do with that.

Might it work to uninstall and reinstall the program? Does the uninstall
remove the data files? I have a backup, just a matter of making sure it is
up to date.

Thanks much,
Roger

-Original Message-
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warl...@mit.edu] 
Sent: martes, 20 de febrero de 2018 10:00 a. m.
To: Roger Oliver <rmom...@gmail.com>
Cc: Gnucash <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Language change mystery

Hi,

Roger Oliver <rmom...@gmail.com> writes:

> I live in Mexico so when my tech works on my computer he changes the 
> operating language of Windows to Spanish. Somehow that changed the 
> language of GnuCash and I can't seem to get it to change back. The 
> names of the accounts are the names I gave them in English but all the 
> menus and tabs are in Spanish. It even changed the primary currency to the
Mexican peso.

GnuCash uses the system locale to choose its display/menu language.
You will need to change the OS language back to English -- or you will need
to specifically reconfigured GnuCash to run in English.  See
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale

> It may have something to do with Windows Defender. For some reason it 
> blocked GnuCash from making changes to the file. It was treating 
> GnuCash as a virus. I think we fixed that.

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-derek

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Re: Language change mystery

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Roger Oliver  writes:

> I live in Mexico so when my tech works on my computer he changes the
> operating language of Windows to Spanish. Somehow that changed the language
> of GnuCash and I can't seem to get it to change back. The names of the
> accounts are the names I gave them in English but all the menus and tabs
> are in Spanish. It even changed the primary currency to the Mexican peso.

GnuCash uses the system locale to choose its display/menu language.
You will need to change the OS language back to English -- or you will
need to specifically reconfigured GnuCash to run in English.  See
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale

> It may have something to do with Windows Defender. For some reason it
> blocked GnuCash from making changes to the file. It was treating GnuCash as
> a virus. I think we fixed that.

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-derek

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