Unable to load the configuration (/.local/share/budget)

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Unable to load the configuration (/.local/share/budget)

tylerdq opened this issue a year ago · comments

I'm really interested in exploring this software but I'm getting the below error on Manjaro 23.0.4

The folder "/.local/share/budget" does not exist. Would like to create it [yes/no] ? yes
[main thread ] budget.cpp:198 ERR| Unable to load the configuration

I get the same result for "yes", and yes/no also give the same results whether I install from the AUR or compile from source.

I noticed from the documentation that the program should be looking for .budget under my home folder. Is there something either in the code or what I'm doing that would cause it to be looking for the wrong folder?

Baptiste Wicht commented a year ago

Awesome!

Tyler Quiring · Answer 1 · Fri Oct 27 2023 05:58:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I created a PR with a possible resolution.

Baptiste Wicht · Answer 2 · Fri Oct 27 2023 12:42:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi Tyler,

Sorry about this issue.

The documentation is wrong there and the code is right :) I have updated the doc.
I have also improved slightly the code to create the directory to give you a nice error and create directories recursively, it make help in your case. Can you try the version from master again?

There is one easy workaround for this case. You can create the directory manually. Either mkdir ~/.budget or mkdir ~/.local/share/budget. Any of these two directories, if they exist, will be picked by the tool.

Let me know how that goes for you.

Tyler Quiring · Answer 3 · Sat Oct 28 2023 00:47:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I discarded my local changes to config.cpp, pulled and rebuilt from the new master source, and it started up just fine. Since I already had ~/.budget at this point this wasn't a test of the new error and recursive directory creation code, but I can confirm it's picking my existing local directory just fine.

Thank you!