Edit environment in gnucash application

[RoseW]

The process listed below received from Geert Janssens was applied to my 
2.4 version on a Win7 desktop
<quote>
- Create a directory "GnuCash" in AppData/Roaming/
- move the directories .gnucash, .gnome2 and .gnome2_private into
"GnuCash"
- if you are still using gnucash 2.4, move the .gconf and .gconfd
directories into "GnuCash" as well
- from the directory where you installed the gnucash application, locate
the file <path to gnucash dir>/etc/gnucash/environment
- open this file in a text editor such as notepad or wordpad
- at the end of this file add one line:
HOME={APPDATA}/GnuCash

Save the file and start gnucash. It should now use the directories
inside AppData/Roaming/GnuCash.

One few caveat: if you ever reinstall or upgrade gnucash you will have
to add the line in the environment file again. It gets overwritten by
the installer.

Lastly this information is also recorded in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503722
<unquote>

Yesterday I prepared to install the latest 2.6 version posted on the 
Gnucash site into Win 8.1 and
Copied my desktop gnucash files over to the laptop, installed,edited the 
/environment file and everything presented as expected.
Checked the AppData folder Gnucash which now contains many subfolders 
(old 2.4 +2.6 info) BUT there is a .gnucash folder with one file in it 
at the beginning of AppData. The file is a duplicate of one of the files 
in the Gnucash created folder.
Since the environment has the line to look in /Gnucash then is this 
.gnucash file extraneous?

-- 
Rose
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