Upgrade / Migration Help: Win 2.2.9 -> Linux 2.4.10

[Roger Day]

On 07/02/13 17:59, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
>> On 2/6/2013 9:10 AM, Roger Day wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to migrate from GnuCash 2.2.9
>>> on Windows to 2.4.10 on Linux (Ubuntu) and how would I do that?  If if
>>> it's not possible then are there any other options?
>>>
>>> I have the .gnucash and other gnucash data files from the windows version
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>> R
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>> I am surprised that your question sat unanswered for so long.  Sorry
>> about that.  All you have to do is go to the Download GnuCash page
> 
> You're appologizing for a 10-hour delay in responding?  *shrugs*
> 
>> <http://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml#distribution> and read the
>> instructions.  It will open your current data file without any
>> conversion, in fact the data file is the same in every OS and many users
>> (myself included) switch back and forth  between computers with
>> different OS's daily using the same data file.
> 
> Yep, all you need to do is File -> Open the file on the new system.
> After that GnuCash will remember the location and re-open it on
> subsequent times.
> 
> If you also copied your ~/.gnucash and ~/.gconf/.../gnucash directories
> then it would also have saved any other state like open reports, saved
> reports, etc.
> 
>> I am not at my Ubuntu computer right now.  It is running version 12.04. 
>> I would expect Gnucash to run in 12.10 as well
> 
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> 
> -derek
> 

that was straightforward, thank you both