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Bug 342724 - gnome 2 gnucash loses gnome 1 file history list
gnome 2 gnucash loses gnome 1 file history list
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface General
1.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: David Hampton
Chris Shoemaker
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-23 17:48 UTC by Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:05 UTC
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Description Thomas Bushnell, BSG 2006-05-23 17:48:40 UTC 
A user is a happy contented user of gnucash 1.8.*.  Then the system is upgrade to 1.9.*.  Upon starting gnucash, with the customary "gnucash" invocation without command line arguments, gnucash acts as if there is no file.  

In other words, gnucash has the wonderful ability to remember from invocation to invocation what the user's gnucash file is, but upon upgrade, that remembering vanishes.

This will result in gobs of user support requests from panicked people, saying "EEK! HELP! MY FINANCIAL DATA HAS VANISHED!"  Some of them may not even *remember* where their gnucash file is, making the situation worse.

Configuration information should be preserved on upgrade.
Comment 1 Thomas Bushnell, BSG 2006-05-23 17:50:20 UTC 
This bug is in the Debian BTS as http://bugs.debian.org/367800.
Comment 2 Thomas Bushnell, BSG 2006-05-23 18:35:41 UTC 
i think this should have priority urgent because of its nature, but bugzilla won't let me say that.
Comment 3 Derek Atkins 2006-05-23 23:41:37 UTC 
This isn't an Engine issue.  I've reassigned it to User Interface.
Comment 4 David Hampton 2006-06-04 21:03:44 UTC 
Fixed in r14321.
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:05:09 UTC 
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