Migrating Gnucash to iMac

[Derek Atkins]

On Tue, September 17, 2013 10:50 am, Bruce Schindler wrote:
> There's progress happening. Gnucash found the file . Now it tells me "No
> suitable backend was found for file:
> ///Users/bruceschindler/Desktop/Schindler Enterprises.gnucash.gcm."

Nope, that's not your datafile.  That's the GnuCash Metadata (gcm) file.

Where is your "Shindler Enterprises.gnucash" file located?

> I was having visions of having to rekey two years' data. Not that I'm out
> of the woods yet, actually.

Nope, not out of the woods, yet..

-derek


> On Sep 17, 2013, at 9:23 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Bruce Schindler <bruceschindler at gtmc.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I put it in the Home folder. The Gnucash search function found the
>>> folder, but showed nothing in it. At the moment, it is on my desktop.
>>> Gnucash sees my desktop and can see the Parallels app but nothing else.
>>>
>>> I did the procedure via Terminal to be able to see otherwise
>>> 'invisible' files for system, etc. That was the only way I could find
>>> the folder in the first place.
>>>
>>
>> You've misunderstood advice P.S. gave you. He didn't mean the ".gnucash"
>> folder containing your preferences, he meant your accounts file, which
>> ends with ".gnucash"--I would have said "foo.gnucash". Gnucash can't
>> open the .gnucash folder, it's not an accounts file.
>>
>> If you want to keep your settings from Windows, you can copy or move the
>> *contents * of .gnucash, *not the folder*, to ~/Library/Application
>> Support/Gnucash, overwriting the current contents.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>
>


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