missing custom report

[Mike Evans]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:21:34 -0400
Carpetnailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:24 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Carpetnailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Found it on my backup. I re-installed gnucash after copying
> > > everything to my home directory (no gnucash by default in Fedora
> > > 17). So gnucash
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "no gnucash by default in F17".  It's
> > most definitely in the main repository and can be installed by "yum
> > install gnucash".
> 
> Just that I had to install it separately rather than its being one of
> the apps that Fedora installed. I was just trying to say that I had
> restored my home directory--including all the hidden files--before I
> installed gnucash.
> > 
> > > must have overwritten that file when it installed. I keep my
> > > actual records in a different directory, so they didn't get
> > > overwritten by the gnucash installation.
> > 
> > No, GnuCash will not overwrite anything in your homedir at
> > installation.  Did you reinstall your machine?  Maybe you did not
> > properly backup/restore your homedir?
> 
> All I know is that saved-reports-2.4 was in the .gnucash directory on
> the rdiff-backup, which I had restored along with everything else in
> my home directory, but it wasn't there after I installed gnucash.
> Unless maybe 'cp -ar * /home/me' doesn't restore hidden files? In
> which case gnucash just created the .gnucash directory without
> overwriting anything.  Whatever. 
> > 
Using 'cp -ar * /home/me' doesn't copy/restore hidden files so none of
your hidden files/dirs in /home/me would have been restored.  I always
use tar for this sort of copy.

cd /from-dir
tar cf – . | (cd /to-dir; tar xvf -)

Mike E

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