relocate gnome files

[Geert Janssens]

On woensdag 1 juni 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:18:48 +0000 (UTC) mchaires at comcast.net wrote:
> > I am a new GnuCash user and I've just installed v2.4.5 on Windows 7 and
> > created a chart of accounts. I've managed to place the $HOME, ledger,
> > backup and log files where I want them, but GnuCash creates other files
> > in unwanted places.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is it possible to relocate the following directories from the root of
> > Users/foo (where foo is the user that did the install) to some other
> > directory? Are these gnome files? Are they necessary?
> > 
> > Â Â Â .gconf
> > 
> > Â Â Â .gconfd
> > 
> > Â Â Â .gnome2
> > 
> > Â Â Â .gnome2_private
> 
> These are gnome files.  They are *probably* necessary.  Deleting them or
> moving will probably result in them being recreated with default values.
> 
Correct. These files are used to store a number of preferences.

> > Â Â Â .gnucash
> 
> This is a gnucash file.  This hold's Users/foo's preferences and stuff
> like saved reports, stuff like that.  Removing it or moving it, will
> only cause it to be recreated with default values and any saved reports
> will be lost (or hard to find).
> 
Also correct.

> You probably can't move them, unless you redefine what HOME is, which
> will likely mean that you would have to move everything in Users/foo to
> the new place for HOME.
> 
Not quite. You can redefine home for GnuCash only. That will move all the 
directories where you want them to be. The easiest way to do this is to add a 
parameter in c:\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment, like:
HOME=c:\MyNewHome

Regards,

Geert