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

[Colin Law]

On 5 December 2016 at 16:42, Claire Light <clairelight108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Maf, Nelson and David for such a prompt reply...I hope I am
> replying correctly to the list, this is my first time :)
> You are correct I am not trying to merge accounts....I definitely want to
> keep them separate.
>
> At the moment we have each of our GC account files (along with all of our
> personal files) on our own thumb drives (USB).  These thumb drives get
> backed up daily to an external drive...I hope this is acceptable.  I could
> place these files directly on the computer as you suggested if necessary.
>
> We are using the LINUX partition as one user, using the profile manager for
> Thunderbird to access each of our mail accounts, and have separate folders
> for our bookmarks in Firefox, etc....I prefer not to set up this partition
> into two users.
>
> You mention Maf,that you do not recommend sharing one login, which I have
> been able to do without issue by doing what you mention File> open> load
> other file.  This didn't seem ideal to me, so I un-did it and since you
> don't recommend it, I am sure there is good reason.

I don't see there is an issue with this provided you don't mind each
other being able to see your accounts. Just copy the two files across
as his.gnucash and hers.gnucash (or whatever names you want) and then
use File > Open to open them.  The only thing you will have to watch
is that you do not accidentally edit the wrong file.  If you think you
can cope with that then do it that way. Alternatively have separate
logins, but there are cons with that as well as you may have to keep
switching who is logged in.

Colin