gnucash migration from 2.4.11 to 2.6.5 on linux

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 25 March 2015 10:18:54 CCAAT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> So I'm posting to the group on how I completed the migration of
> gnucash form 2.4.11 to 2.6.5 under (gentoo) linux.
> 
> First: I used scp with options "-rp" to copy the <user/.gnucash>
> directory from one system to another.
> 
> Second: As was suggested, I exported the data file from the existing
> system (guncash-2.4.11) to a known location and  use the 'scp' command
> to copy it to the new system that was running gnucash-2.6.5.
> 
> Third: Start gnucash-2.6.5 and point to the data file and all is
> perfectly happy, with pretty much the same set up as on the previous
> system. I have not explored all of the features of the new version
> of gnucash, but so far, no problems. If there are any suggestions
> on specific new features to test, please post some detail and I'll
> run those tests.
> 
> 
> hth,
> James
> 
Hi James,

Thank you for sharing your experience with the community.

The migration is mostly complete this way, except for the general 
preferences (most of which are configured via Edit->Preferences).

On linux these settings are stored in gconf (for 2.4.x) or dconf (for 
2.6.x). I don't know of an easy  way to migrate these settings from one 
pc to another.

Also note that gnucash 2.4.x and 2.6.x use different preference systems. 
GnuCash 2.6.x comes with migration code that automatically attempts to 
migrate from gconf to dconf if you do the gnucash update on the same 
system. This obviously can't work when migrating to a different system.

Anyway, the main thing I wanted to point out is that after the migration 
you may want to go over the preferences in Edit->Preferences to see if 
some need to customized.

Regards,

Geert