move GNUCASH account to another computer

Verónica Gómez verogferra at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 19:03:15 EST 2009


Dear Marc,
Your accounts are not in .gnucash. They are in file with a name and a 
directory you should have chosen the first time you worked with gnucash.
Have a look at this link in the archive, it should help: 
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-August/026420.html
Veronica

mdc001 escribió:
> I am running 2.2.6 Gnucash on a desktop computer.(ubuntu 8.10)
> As a precaution, I would like to run gnucash on my laptop and use the same
> accounts. (laptop is also ubuntu 8.10)
> I backed up the .gnucash from my home directory and copied to my laptop. 
> I was hoping to open the accounts file and I would have the current
> accounts, up to date etc.  But that is not what happened.
>
> Can anyone suggest the steps required to move the gnucash from one computer
> to another?  What are all of the files that need to be shifted?  Are there
> some configuration files that need to be backed up etc.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> Marc
>   


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