gnucash migration from 2.4.11 to 2.6.5 on linux

CCAAT ccaat at tampabay.rr.com
Thu Mar 26 17:05:50 EDT 2015


Thanks!


James

On 03/26/2015 01:34 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 March 2015 10:18:54 CCAAT wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> So I'm posting to the group on how I completed the migration of
>> gnucash form 2.4.11 to 2.6.5 under (gentoo) linux.
>>
>> First: I used scp with options "-rp" to copy the <user/.gnucash>
>> directory from one system to another.
>>
>> Second: As was suggested, I exported the data file from the existing
>> system (guncash-2.4.11) to a known location and  use the 'scp' command
>> to copy it to the new system that was running gnucash-2.6.5.
>>
>> Third: Start gnucash-2.6.5 and point to the data file and all is
>> perfectly happy, with pretty much the same set up as on the previous
>> system. I have not explored all of the features of the new version
>> of gnucash, but so far, no problems. If there are any suggestions
>> on specific new features to test, please post some detail and I'll
>> run those tests.
>>
>>
>> hth,
>> James
>>
> Hi James,
>
> Thank you for sharing your experience with the community.
>
> The migration is mostly complete this way, except for the general
> preferences (most of which are configured via Edit->Preferences).
>
> On linux these settings are stored in gconf (for 2.4.x) or dconf (for
> 2.6.x). I don't know of an easy  way to migrate these settings from one
> pc to another.
>
> Also note that gnucash 2.4.x and 2.6.x use different preference systems.
> GnuCash 2.6.x comes with migration code that automatically attempts to
> migrate from gconf to dconf if you do the gnucash update on the same
> system. This obviously can't work when migrating to a different system.
>
> Anyway, the main thing I wanted to point out is that after the migration
> you may want to go over the preferences in Edit->Preferences to see if
> some need to customized.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>



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