dual boot win7 and linux - gnucash files?

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Fri Aug 12 13:21:00 EDT 2016


On Friday 12 August 2016 13:15:50 Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:03:52 -0400 ETS <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I have been learning Linux (Mint) and am dua booting with win7.  My
> > gnucash works fine in windows, but when I go to the newly installed
> > gnucash on the linux side, and point it at the same data file, all
> > my
> > online info and all my reports are gone (while still existing on the
> > windows side).  How do I get this info into the linux side? - Elmar
> 
> The reports and the like are stored under ~/.gnucash/ under Linux. 
> This is *separate* from the account (books) file, which only has the
> bookkeeping data. I am not sure where the ~/.gnucash/ data is stored
> under MS-Windows.  It is probably whereever MS-Windows stored
> "preferences".  You need to copy the files there over to your Linux's
> ~/.gnucash/ directory. ("~/" is your Linux "Home" directory).
> 
The .gnucash directory under windows is also in the user's 'Home' directory. But on 
Windows this is a less common directory to access directly:

c:\Users\<yourusername>\.gnucash

I believe for online data, you'll also need

c:\Users\<yourusername>\.aqbanking

Regards,

Geert

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