migrating from Windows 7 to OSX-El Cap

[Liz]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 15:34:58 -0600
Robert Comey <westwindenvironmental at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used a thumb drive to transfer the latest saved .gnucash data file
> from my old Win 7 machine to a new Gnucash build on a MacBook Air
> running OS X-El Cap. Accounts and sub account labels transferred
> properly but values for all accounts showed zero amounts and all
> transaction history was missing. Version of Gnwucash on the windows
> machine is 2.6.3 and the new build on the Mac is 2.6.13
> 
> On the clean Mac build, I used the Open button to navigate to and
> select the gnu cash file on the thumb drive.
> 
> Earlier attempts using the Export and Import features on the
> respective builds resulted in errors and 0 files installed.
> 
> Any idea on how I can move the last three years of transactions from
> Windows build to OS-X build?
> 
> Thanks,
> RC
>
Read this bit
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_backup_my_data.3F
You've done the second part
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_backup_my_GC_environment.2C_including_preferences.3F

The procedure is just backup and then restore.