problem migrating gnucash to gnucash

[Liz]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:24:30 -0500
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:31:44PM +0000, Fr. Juvenaly wrote:
> > Greetings,I began using gnucash several years ago with Linux
> > Ubuntu. A few days ago, I installed a new version of Ubuntu (14.04)
> > separately on my system alongside the old setup (v. 12.02). The old
> > setup was corrupted so that you couldn't upgrade or install any
> > software. Running the old version of gnucash in the old setup, I
> > exported/backed up the gnucash data. The only format for export was
> > XML. So I used that, of course. Now, in my new setup, I've
> > downloaded the latest version of Gnucash. It's version 2.6.1.
> > There are many ways to import data, but among the choices there is
> > no choice to import data in XML format. Therefore I'm not able to
> > import my backed up data from the old setup. Does anyone know how I
> > can resolve this problem and import my old data simply and easily?
> > **Please reply directly to my email since I'm not a member of this
> > group**
> > 
> > Thank youJuvenaly
> 
> I'm assuming you're NOT using the SQL database backend. If that's
> correct, you don't need to do anything special,... just copy the
> GnuCash data file from your old installation to the new one, and
> voila. There should be no exporting required.
> 

Details are in the FAQ.
You also want your preferences file
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_backup_my_data.3F
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_backup_my_GC_environment.2C_including_preferences.3F


Liz