problem migrating gnucash to gnucash

[Colin Law]

On 8 December 2014 at 14:31, Fr. Juvenaly <juven_29 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings,I began using gnucash several years ago with Linux Ubuntu. A few days ago, I installed a new version of Ubuntu (14.04) separately on my system alongside the old setup (v. 12.02). The old setup was corrupted so that you couldn't upgrade or install any software.
> Running the old version of gnucash in the old setup, I exported/backed up the gnucash data. The only format for export was XML. So I used that, of course.
> Now, in my new setup, I've downloaded the latest version of Gnucash. It's version 2.6.1.  There are many ways to import data, but among the choices there is no choice to import data in XML format. Therefore I'm not able to import my backed up data from the old setup.
> Does anyone know how I can resolve this problem and import my old data simply and easily?
> **Please reply directly to my email since I'm not a member of this group**

Better to join the group if you want help.  But anyway, all you have
to do is copy the file to a convenient folder on your new computer
(~/Documents/finance or wherever you fancy), start gnucash and use
File > Open to browse to the file and open it.  In fact you did not
need to use export at all, you just have to copy the .gnucash file
across and open it.

Colin