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

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Hi, Michael.  Russellji's problem is that he's trying to have the OS us 
a different profile directory.  His OS isn't going to use a different 
profile directory.  This isn't a bug of Gnucash.  It's a normal 
functionality of the OS.  If the .gnucash doesn't exit, it's going to be 
created.  He described what he did.  He also described the normal 
function of the OS.

Excuse me, I do not know Windows 8.1.   I was taking seriously the idea 
that Russelji WAS able to change the location of the /User directory to 
the D drive. By which I do not mean simply creating a directory with the 
correct name there but one that Windows 8.1 would use << for example, if 
he created a new log in account, Windows would put the data area of that 
new user THERE >>  He said that he had done this, right? Those of you 
who are using 'nix operating systems should be familiar with the idea 
that different parts of the file system could be on different drives (in 
different partitions, possibly also on different physical drives). Not 
inconceivable to me that Windows was FINALLY allowing this.

OK, back to the present (say Windows 7 or before, those I do know for 
sure). When user JohnDoe opens gnucash the program looks for a directory 
.../Users/JohnDoe/.gnucash      If it finds it, knows that it has been 
up before and simply uses the configuration data there. But for every 
user on the computer, there is a first time gnucash is opened. So it 
doesn't find a .gnucash in /Users/Username and creates one, initializes 
configuration data, and proceeds.

Understand what I am saying now? If Windows 8.1 does allow relocating 
/Users onto a different drive (than the C drive) then gnucash can't 
assume the location will be C:/Users/Username

We need somebody who has Windows 8.1 to test this. CAN you do what 
Russellji claims to have done?  If lacking multiple physical drives, 
perhaps partitioning would let you create a D or E or whatever. If so, 
and you do it, what happens when you bring up gnucash.

Michael D Novack