Changing Gnucash install directory Win XP

Girard Aquino girardaquino at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 23 22:46:18 EDT 2008


Sorry but I didn't catch the whole discussion about this, but one thing 
I found difficult as regards GnuCash on XP is that user profiles aren't 
stored under My Documents. This probably makes sense for linux users, 
but as far as windows users are concerned, it doesn't seem to be quite a 
neat setup.
Derek Atkins wrote:
> vizo  writes:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Gnucash 2.26 is installed in D:\Programs\Gnucash. Now I want to remove
>>     
>
> I presume you mean 2.2.6, not 2.26.  Version 2.26 would be
> the 13'th major release of the GnuCash 2 code.
>
>   
>> Gnucash to C:\ Programs\Gnucash because I will dump the D drive.
>>
>> Is it possible to do this without reinstalling the sofware?
>>     
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> I don't think it's easily done.  Your best bet it to uninstall
> and re-install.  Note that your data file wont get destroyed
> as part of the uninstall, and indeed after you re-install it's
> extremely likely that gnucash will just find your existing data
> file.
>
>   
>> Thanks for answers. 
>>     
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>   
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> -derek
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