From f1edb7422d8143266a269c545aff2e16349731cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert@telenet.be>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:18:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #623844 - CRITICAL gnc.backend Error message in trace
 file.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@19350 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 src/backend/xml/gnc-backend-xml.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backend/xml/gnc-backend-xml.c b/src/backend/xml/gnc-backend-xml.c
index e3d8924c9d..e40e3ecaab 100644
--- a/src/backend/xml/gnc-backend-xml.c
+++ b/src/backend/xml/gnc-backend-xml.c
@@ -1120,6 +1120,8 @@ retain_type_changed_cb(GConfEntry *entry, gpointer user_data)
     gchar *choice = NULL;
     g_return_if_fail(be != NULL);
     choice = gnc_gconf_get_string(GCONF_GENERAL, KEY_RETAIN_TYPE, NULL);
+    if (!choice)
+        choice = g_strdup("days");
 
     if (safe_strcmp (choice, "never") == 0)
         be->file_retention_type = XML_RETAIN_NONE;