Migrating Gnucash to iMac

[Bruce Schindler]

I put it in the Home folder. The Gnucash search function found the folder, but showed nothing in it. At the moment, it is on my desktop. Gnucash sees my desktop and can see the Parallels app but nothing else.

I did the procedure via Terminal to be able to see otherwise 'invisible' files for system, etc. That was the only way I could find the folder in the first place.


On Sep 17, 2013, at 8:54 AM, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, September 17, 2013 9:41 am, Bruce Schindler wrote:
>> I did File->Open a number of times. It simply cannot find it. I even tried
>> moving the file to areas I knew it recognized, e.g. desktop.
> 
> Okay...  Where did you put the data file?
> What do you mean by "it simply cannot find it"?  Are you looking in the
> right place?  When you use the File -> Open dialog and go to the right
> folder where you file is, what does it show?
> 
>> I am not familiar with SQLite. Apparently, it is part of a number of
>> applications. At this point, I am using the Safari browser.
> 
> I'm not sure what Safari has to do with anything...
> 
>> -Bruce
> 
> -derek
> 
>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Tue, September 17, 2013 8:52 am, Bruce Schindler wrote:
>>>> That got me several steps closer. The .gnucash file now knows it should
>>>> open with Gnucash. The app itself cannot find it. I have attempted
>>>> opening
>>>> it from both directions (opening the program and trying to find the
>>>> data,
>>>> and also clicking on the data, which knows it should open with Gnucash.
>>>> When I do the latter, Gnucash launches, but only shows "unsaved book."
>>>> What am I missing?
>>> 
>>> Unlike the other platforms, the Mac implementation of GnuCash doesn't
>>> understand the system file-open intents.  What this means is that unlike
>>> other systems, on a Mac you cannot click on a datafile and have GnuCash
>>> open *that* datafile.  What will happen is that GnuCash will start as
>>> you
>>> expect, but it will still open the last datafile you opened, which in
>>> your
>>> case is "none".
>>> 
>>> What you need to do is start GnuCash and then File -> Open and tell
>>> gnucash where your data file is.  Are you saying that you tried this and
>>> it didn't work?  If it didn't work, did you by any chance use SQLite as
>>> your backend?
>>> 
>>> -derek
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 16, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Parameswaran S Prem <premps at sg.ibm.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have done it couple of time.  Moving from Windows to MAC and MAC to
>>>>> Windows.  I only moved .gnucash file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is what I did,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1.  Copy the .gnucash file to your preferred folder.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2.  Install GnuCash.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 3. Right Click the .gnucash file and select "Open With" and choose
>>>>> Gnucash.app.  If Gnucash.app is not listed, cliek "Other...." and
>>>>> select
>>>>> it from the applications menu.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Next time when you open GnuCash, it will default to the .gnucash file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> With best regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> P S Prem
>>>>> GMU(AP) System z Software, IM Technical Lead
>>>>> IBM Software Group Asia Pacific, Growth Market Unit,
>>>>> Tel : +65-6418 4454 (DID)
>>>>>       +65-9750 8390 (Mobile)
>>>>>          6 919-4454   (Tie Line)
>>>>> eMail : premps at sg.ibm.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> From:        Bruce Schindler <bruceschindler at gtmc.net>
>>>>> To:        gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>>>> Date:        17/09/2013 06:40 AM
>>>>> Subject:        Migrating Gnucash to iMac
>>>>> Sent by:        gnucash-user-bounces+premps=sg.ibm.com at gnucash.org
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have copied the .gconf and .gnucash files from my old PC. The files
>>>>> currently reside on both a thumb drive and on my desktop. Gnucash
>>>>> cannot
>>>>> see them. I see instructions on where they are to go in the Mac file
>>>>> system, but do not know how it should be done.
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