Migration from Ubuntu to iMac - which files to copy, and where?

[John Ralls]

On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:25 AM, foxylady337 <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 28 Jan 2013, at 16:32, "John Ralls-2 [via GnuCash]" <ml-node+s1415818n4659219h75 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 27, 2013, at 10:22 PM, foxylady337 <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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>>> Thanks, John. 
>>> 
>>> Being a Mac novice, I took me a while to find out how to access the private 
>>> parts of the Mac's filing system! 
>> 
>> Use the command line from Terminal. It's bash, just like you're used to from Linux.
>> 
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> Yes, I'm beginning to get the hang of it now - I know the OS is trying to protect me from my own stupidity, but…
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>>> 
>>> When I first opened GnuCash, I got the message that 
>>> 
>>> "The file file:///home/michael/Accounts/MDH.gnucash could not be found". I 
>>> ignored this, and Gnucash opened up a blank set of accounts. I was able to 
>>> Open the account I'd transferred earlier, but there are still a problem with 
>>> Preferences. 
>>> 
>>> When I look at the Accounting Period, I'm told that it's set for an absolute 
>>> date range of 04/01/11 to 03/31/12, although my system locale setting is for 
>>> GB.
>> Are you sure? You need to set both language and formats in system prefs. In particular, date and number display are in formats. 
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> I'm absolutely sure, and I've double-checked the settings.
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>>> 
>>> When I go to adjust these using the pull-down on the right hand side of the 
>>> date box, 04/01/11 is represented on the calendar as the 4th of January 
>>> 2011, while 03/31/12 comes up as 31st March 2012. 
>> Really? That's weird. I don't know how it could be DMY for one and MDY for another. 
>> 
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> Indeed! Seriously weird. My only explanation is that the software was smart enough to realise that 03/31/12 must be wrong, and although it displayed it in this format, it "realised" that something was wrong when I asked to select a date from the calendar, and switched it to 31st March 2012. 04/01/11 is a valid date either side of the Atlantic, so the calendar function accepted it verbatim in the context of a GB locale, and rendered it as 4th Jan 2011.

If in preferences you look at the Date/Time tab, what does it display for a format example next to "locale"? If you select "UK", does that resolve the problem?

Regards,
John Ralls