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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