Moving One Account to Different Computer

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Girard Aquino <girardaquino at hotmail.com>:

>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Quoting Lane Lester :
>>
>>
>>> I'm using GnuCash/Linux for several bank/credit card accounts, and my wife
>>> is using GnuCash Windows on her computer for some other accounts. What I
>>> would like to do is move just one of the bank accounts to my wife's 
>>> computer
>>> for her to manage. If this can be done, I'd appreciate learning how.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, there's no way to do this including all the history except
>> by manually re-entering all the transactions.  Alternatively you can
>> "close" the account in your book and "open" it in her book with a
>> new opening balance and just go forward from there.
>>
>>
> i have the same problem only backwards. i used gnucash on windows and
> would like to import my file into ubuntu. i thought all along that
> gnucash was platform independent.

That's not at all the same problem.  You can migrate your whole data
file from one platform to another perfectly.  Just copy the file
over and File -> Open it.

>>> Lane

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-derek
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