Transfer of .gnucash folder from SSD system disc to HDD data disc

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Stop folks. I think Russellji is reporting  a bug. Take a look at what 
he is saying he did and let's for a moment assume that he did that 
correctly BUT .............


"I am a newby to this forum and GnuCash.

I have recently upgraded to a new Windows 8.1 system with a SSD drive
devoted to programs and a HDD drive for data.  When I installed GnuCash, it
automatically placed the data files to C:\Users\Russellji even though I had
changed my library and user locations to the HDD previously.  In fact it
created the user Russellji as it had already been transferred to the HDD.

So I cut and pasted the GnuCash folder from c:users\Russellji\.gnucash to
D:\Users\Russellji\.gnucash and restarted the GnuCash program and it
recreated c:users\Russellji\.gnucash!"

In other words, logged in as user Russellji he opened gnucash, and 
gnucash not finding a directory C:\Users\Russellji\.gnucash the program 
created those directories. Normal for the program to do the first time 
coming up (well it expects the directories C:\Users and 
C:\Users\username to already exist --- but obviously coping with the 
surprise). In other words, not finding C:\Users it didn't check to see 
if there was a :\Users on some other drive ---- in this case, the D drive.

At least that's what I think is going west here, that gnucash is 
assuming a Windows OS will NOT be partitioned. Or that while it might be 
partitioned in some regards, it won't be as far as :\Users is concerned.

I think we need a developer with Windows 8 and multiple drives to check 
this out.


Michael


















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