"Simple" Backups & Restores.

[Dave H]

As Ken has already mentioned all you really need to do is copy your single
<filename>.gnucash data file to the new computer and open it there with
gnucash - nothing difficult about that :-)  It's a bit more complicated if
you have saved customised reports I think as you have to also find these
and copy them over.

If you're after exporting to other miscellaneous formats forget nabble and
go to the gnucash website - specifically
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_can_I_export_data.3F which covers
exporting to XSLT and various other formats.

Be careful about using the export option for XSL - as far as I recall it
only exports your accounts tree, no transaction data.  This also gives you
the option to export your file to anywhere on your pc that you care to
specify not just a hidden directory !!!

What version of gnucash are you using anyway - I'm not sure if there are
implications opening say an file created in 2.4.11 or there abouts with the
latest 2.6.3 - I seem to recall the .gnucash suffix use is fairly recent.

Cheers Dave H.



On 29 June 2014 03:16, Latin Loser <expat_brit at terra.com.co> wrote:

> Greetings from the tropics!
>
> Now, while trying to migrate some GNU Cash accounts from an old Windows
> Vista laptop to a newer Windows 7 laptop, I've hit several snags. Historic,
> experience says this should have been an easy task? Not so! It's mired in
> 'gotchas' for the unwary! Helpfully, the GNU Cash main menu has an option
> to
> 'Export' the accounts to another format, however options are limited to
> either XML or one of three relational database formats. Surely, it would be
> simple to allow export to formats such as .XLS TXT or CSV to give users
> some
> flexibility? So, having created an XML which I called /export/ so as to
> keep
> things simple, I noted that GNU Cash had created the file in a hidden
> directory called /User\Username\AppData/ which may make sense to the
> /coders/ amongst us, but it makes no sense to me! So, how is a 'User'
> supposed to copy this file onto removable media and restore it onto another
> computer?
>
> Looking around the forum, I see there are several threads about backup, but
> what I couldn't find were any simple /'Step-by-Step'/ instructions on how
> to
> backup the accounts to removable media and to restore them onto a newly
> installed version of GNU Cash. Does anyone have anything like this?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help...
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Latin Loser.
>
>
>
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