Hi Phil, Op woensdag 7 september 2022 18:50:16 CEST schreef Phil Wolff: > > "Backup files" are autogenerated by gnucash and - as the name suggests - > > contain backups of your accounting data. They are generated in the same > > directory as your "Data file" and have as file name > > > > <Data file name>.<timestamp>.gnucash > > Don't see any of these
You may have disabled backup file generation. <snip> > > "Saved reports" is a bit of an outlier. It is a single file that contains > > all "Saved report configurations" you have created in gnucash. For > > historical reasons this file is shared by all your "Data files". It is > > found in GNC_DATA_HOME and is called saved-reports-<version> > > 3 files; -2.8, > -2.8~ and -2.8-backup suffixes. If the 2.8 is the GNC version, that means > that my recollection of seeing "1.something" in Synaptic is faulty. > 2.8 is the compatibility version and actually refers to gnucash 3.x (a small historical hiccup). <snip> > A few final remarks: > > * You never mentioned this, but normally gnucash would pop up a message when > it has attempted this migration. Did you actually get this message ? > > No. If the migration occurred during the Ubuntu 20.04 -> 22.04 upgrade, I > would not have seen it go by in the torrent generated by the upgrader. If > it showed such a message the first time I ran gnucash after the upgrade, I > missed seeing it. > It should be displayed the first time you run gnucash after the upgrade. So you may have missed it. > > * You mentioned you were migrating from gnucash 1.x. Was that really the > previous version of gnucash you ran on your system, or just that the data > file you now opened was last opened with gnucash 1.x ? Somewhere in the 2.x > series we switched backends for these preferences (from the old GConf to > the newer DConf). Migration between these two backends has been done > somewhere between 2.x and 3.x, but that migration code is no longer present > in gnucash 4.x. So if you really never ran gnucash 2.x and 3.x, this means > all your preferences have been reset to default. In that case you probably > want to go through your preferences again in "Edit->Preferences" to check > if they are still as you want them to be. > > That is what I found late yesterday. I had reported that my Scheduled > Transactions were not being posted, and John Ralls pointed me to the ST > section in Preferences. Sure enough, none of the boxes were checked, and > manually running Actions/Scheduled Transactions/Since Last Run entered all > of the delinquents. However when I called up dconf-editor, I found a folder > /org/gnucash with 7 subfolders, one of which is GnuCash. Oddly, GnuCash > contains 6 subfolders named the same as ones in its parent, and both sets > of folders contain folders /dialogs/scheduled-trans/since-last-run with > binary keys show-file-at-open and show-notify-window-at-file-open that are > enabled. It appears that GConf did get migrated to DConf but gnucash isn't > reading dconf. Considering you were previously on Ubuntu 20.04LTS the most recent gnucash on that system was 3.8b. The 1: in the package version number is a specific packaging prefix. I used to know what it was about. I do know it's not relevant to determine the actual gnucash version. So you're good. And indeed the migration to dconf has already happened by then. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.