Changing the home directory
Fred Bone
Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Tue Jul 29 12:09:32 EDT 2008
On 29 July 2008 at 17:11, Paul Steele said:
> Hello,
>
> I just set up Gnucash on my machine, and am pretty pleased with how it is
> operating so far. However, there is one thing I did on accident that I
> can't seem to change. The first time I ran Gnucash, I set my Home
> Directory to my "Owner" folder in Microsoft Vista. I don't really want to
> have gnucash files all over that folder, so I having been trying for quite
> some time now to change my home directory. I've checked out the help
> manual, concept guide, and a couple of the pieces of documentation, but
> none of them seem to address this as far as I know. The only thing I can
> think to do right now is to save my files, uninstall gnucash and then
> reinstall it choosing the proper folder for a home directory. Can you
> guys help?
Just save it wherever you want it. The program remembers the location of
the last file saved and re-opens it on next startup.
It won't clean out the old stuff from the old location, though - you'll
need to do that manually.
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