How to import two Gnucash files from two computers to one computer

[Maf. King]

On Sunday, 4 December 2016 18:26:46 GMT Claire Light wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My husband and I switched from Quicken to Gnucash about 6 months ago and we
> love it.
> We each had our own computers from which to work on our separate personal
> accounts, nothing complicated.
> 
> We now have only one computer to work from a dual boot Windows 7 and Linux
> mint 18...and are cutting the cord from Windows.  I have exported my
> Gnucash file successfully to Gnucash on the Linux partition, and his onto
> the Windows 7 partition, only because I have not figured out how to import
> his file into the same Gnucash program as mine on the Linux partition and
> be able to easily switch between the two.
> 
> I have read on many occasions that we can have multiple accounts, personal
> or business on the same Gnucash program...please excuse my lack of proper
> wording and newbiness in expressing myself.  I have seen on a post how to
> open a new file,  how to merge two files but have not found anywhere how to
> import a second separate Gnucash  file/account, so that we can both work
> from the Linux partition, at separate times, on our separate accounts.  I
> hope my question is clear.
> 
> Would someone be so kind as to direct me on how to do this ?
> Thank you in advance,
> Claire

Hi Claire,

I assume that you are going to have independent logins on the linux box.

Copy your account file to something like 
 /home/claire/accounts/mine.gnucash 

and copy his to 
/home/[hisname]/accounts/his.gnucash

this is mostly outlined in the FAQ about moving GC data from one system to 
another, with the slight extension to 2 users.

If you are only going to have 1 login which you share, (which I wouldn't 
recommend) then /home/[ourloginname]/heraccounts/mine.gnucash and /home/
[ourloginname]/hisaccounts/ his.gnucash would work too, you'll just need to 
File->open within GC if you want to load "the other file"

HTH,
Maf.