Transfer account to another computer

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Jun 15 09:32:10 EDT 2011


At Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:13:02 -0400 anafshalom at alumni.iu.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> So now I see that there are a couple of files in the .gnucash folder
> namely stylesheets-2.0 and /books/<mumble> which I think I would need to
> get gnuCash to open in the same state as I left it (same account windows
> open and same reports open).  Question is--Where do I put them in
> windows?

*I* have no clue.  I have never used MS-Windows.  You should *always*
use 'reply-all' when replying to the list.

> 
> Reuven 
> 
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 16:55 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:42:41 -0400 anafshalom at alumni.iu.edu wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm using gnucash and I want to transfer the account to another person's
> > > computer.  In the GnuCash folder there are oodles of files.  Is there a
> > > single file or a small number of files I can transfer to him which will
> > > open up in the same state as I last save it?
> > 
> > The files with names like <mumble>.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.log and
> > <mumble>.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.xac and log and backup files (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
> > are digits representing a timestamp).  The (one?) file named '<mumble>'
> > is the GnuCash datafile.
> > 
> > There are also files in .gnucash that contain things like preferences
> > and your saved reports.  These are important, but don't need to be
> > transfered.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm using Ubuntu, the other person is using Windows
> > > 
> > > Reuven
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