Where are preferences on Mac?

[Nadine Hwa]

Hi, John.

I did find, in the Application Support/Gnucash folder, the saved- 
reports-2.4 and stylesheets-2.0 -- which is what I hope will transfer  
those Custom Reports and any Stylesheets I've created for reports.  
That folder also contains something called expressions-2.0 -- do you  
know what that refers to? There is also accelerator-map--don't know  
what this is, either.

I am unable to see the /.gconf that you mentioned. Can you help with  
this? Also, I have never used Terminal. Maybe it would be easier for  
me to just redo my Preferences from scratch?

Any comments would be appreciated. Thank you for the quick reply.

Nadine


On Sep 23, 2011, at 3:50 PM, John Ralls wrote:

>
> On 2011-09-23, at 11:57, Nadine Hwa wrote:
>
>> Please help, it would be so appreciated. In transferring my Gnucash  
>> document from one Mac to another, I can copy my individual Gnucash  
>> document, but I lose my preferences and custom reports once I  
>> launch the document on the new computer. Should I locate my  
>> preferences for these somewhere on the original computer--and WHERE  
>> are they? I've looked in my Preferences folder in my Library, and  
>> there are no Gnucash preferences.
>>
>> Also: Is there another place I can email someone for technical  
>> support when needed? Is there a team answering questions (what is  
>> the email address?), or an online community where questions are  
>> answered, which I can browse? Would love to know.
>>
>> Thank you very much. I really like your product.
>
> Gnucash doesn't use Apple defaults at this point, so the prefs  
> aren't in ~/Library/Preferences. Some Gnucash stuff (including your  
> custom reports) is in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash, but the  
> preferences are maintained by GConf and are in ~/.gconf. You'll have  
> to use Terminal to copy it to your new mac, or to rename it to  
> something that Finder can see, use Finder to copy it, then use  
> Terminal again to rename it back on the new system.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>