file transfer

[Josh Sled]

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"Virgil Hilton" <vmhilton at gmail.com> writes:
> could you explain that a little simpiler, using nautilus i opened the other
> partition and checked all of the directories but did not see a datafile. i
> did see the ~/gnucash and transferred it but the checking account did not
> have all the entries in it like the old partition it just came up under
> budget. do i open gnucash and find the datafiles ? i can still long into
> the other partition and open gnucash without a problem, and i tried to
> export to the new particition but that didn't work either from inside
> gnucash- thanks again

In Nautilus, in the View menu, check the "Show Hidden files" option; files
and directories with a name beginning with a "." are hidden.  It's unclear if
you have a ~/gnucash/ directory as well, but the one you are looking for is
".gnucash" specifically.

The .gnucash directory is only a nice-to-have, but it does contain the
information about what tabs/registers/reports you had open, in what order,
&c.  If you have only your datafile, it will probably just open up with the
Accounts tab, and that's all.

I would make sure that you're getting your datafile by starting gnucash on
the old partition, looking at the titlebar to ascertain the full path and
name of your datafile, then closing gnucash and copying it to the new
partition.  There should not be any data loss.

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