Question about backing up Gnucash files and installing on new laptop

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 4/28/2016 3:40 PM, dan.hartzler at juno.com wrote:
> First post here, so forgive me if I do something wrong and feel free to correct any errors............. The last time I backed up my Gnucash on the Thinkpad, the next time I launched Guncash, it prompted me to insert the flash drive. In other words, Guncash loaded from the flash drive, not the hard drive, after my backup. Somehow I fixed this, but now that I'm using a new laptop, I want to make sure that Gnucash files are installed on the hard drive, and that the program launches only from the hard drive.  Any help would be appreciated. Dan Hartzler
  You are confusing two things. By default (you can tell it not to by 
running "no file") gnucash remembers the last set of books you had open 
and if you just start gnucash will attempt to open that file. You had 
probably copied that file from the flash drive to the hard drive on the 
new machine but had never opened it there and the last you had open was 
probably the one on that flash drive, yes? (that would depend on HOW you 
got it to the flash drive).

There can be several LOGICAL versions of a set of books (say you just 
made two copies, one for on-site backup and one for remotely kept 
backup) but only one of these would be the physical file last used by 
gnucash.

Just tell gnucash to open the file on the hard drive of the new machine, 
and next time that would  be the "last used"

For those of us who are keeping multiple sets of books this sort of 
thing comes second nature as we are always having to tell gnucash which 
books we want to work on (only sometimes the same as last time). Less 
obvious for those of us only keeping one set of books so just click on 
the gnucash icon and take what comes up.

Michael