Yes, that worked, as did two backslashes.
On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 11:46, Chris Grinton <cgrin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Consistent with other default settings in the environment file, I am using
> forward slashes (/) in my GNC_DATA_HOME setting on Windows, not backslashes
> (\). So if you haven't tried using forward slashes then that would certainly
> be worth a shot.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 22:40, Mark Itzcovitz <mark.itzcov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> I tried that and it didn't help.
>>
>> As a test, I changed it to GNC_DATA_HOME={ALLUSERSPROFILE} and it
>> worked. Are there some rules about the way a path is written with
>> GnuCash on Windows? Maybe '/' instead of '\'? I will investigate
>> further, but not just now, I need to get on with the day job.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 10:54, Chris Grinton <cgrin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am able to successfully configure my GNC_DATA_HOME setting in the
>> > C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment file. So maybe try
>> > configuring the setting in that file instead of the environment.local
>> > file.
>> >
>> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 20:06, Mark Itzcovitz <mark.itzcov...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi David,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the thought, but that's not the problem. I changed the
>> >> value of GNC_DATA_HOME to C:\Temp and it still doesn't work.
>> >>
>> >> From Process Monitor I can see that it's reading my environment.local
>> >> but it's going straight to the default location when it opens
>> >> saved-reports-2.8.
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 01:14, D. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Mark,
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm no expert, but my experience of the various cloud services under
>> >> > Windows is that their mappings as folders is not always what they
>> >> > appear to be. You may be running into some issue related to the
>> >> > following email on the list earlier:
>> >> > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-July/097159.html
>> >> >
>> >> > David
>> >> > ________________________________
>> >> > From: Mark Itzcovitz
>> >> > Sent: Mon Nov 08 17:36:44 EST 2021
>> >> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
>> >> > Subject: [GNC] Problem changing report configuration location
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm trying to change the location of the report configuration files,
>> >> > so I can put them on OneDrive to share between machines. I've created
>> >> > the file environment.local in the same place as the file environment,
>> >> > C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash, containing this line:
>> >> > GNC_DATA_HOME=C:\Users\mji\OneDrive\Software\gnucash_data_home
>> >> > I've also created the gnucash_data_home directory.
>> >> >
>> >> > My problem is that GnuCash is still using the file saved-reports-2.8
>> >> > in C:\Users\mji\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash. Can anyone suggest why that
>> >> > might be?
>> >> >
>> >> > As you'll have gathered, I'm running on Windows. My GnuCash version is
>> >> > 4.5.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > Mark
>> >> > ________________________________
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