Migrating Gnucash to iMac

[Bruce Schindler]

In trying to do all the fancy stuff, I forget the old school stuff. The file never got onto the Mac in the first place. I did a 'save as' to put the file onto a thumb drive, and brought it over to the Mac courtesy of a tennis shoe transfer. Gnucash opened it just fine.

Thanks so much for all your help.

Bruce Schindler
 
PS: If any of you read science fiction, I write novels. I'd be glad to send you a copy. I also have horses, if you're into them.

On Sep 17, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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