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

[Colin Law]

On 5 December 2016 at 19:01, Claire Light <clairelight108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you again for a prompt reply Colin.
> We don't mind seeing each others accounts, so if that is the main reason for
> not accessing each of our accounts through File > open, I've always had our
> accounts in different colours so as to make it visually apparent which is
> which....so we should be able to function this way.
>
> If anyone can tell me how to set up separate logins (within one user profile
> in LINUX mint), while we're on the subject, that would be fabulous, and an
> alternate solution if our situation changes :)

I think that separate logins implies separate users, with separate
home directories. I don't use mint so don't know how to do that in
Mint, but I am sure it is not difficult.

If you go for the two files solution in one login then another
suggestion to make it easier to use would be to setup two shortcuts,
one which opens one file and another which opens the other. Again I
don't know how to setup a shortcut in MInt, but once you have
determined how to do that then it is merely a matter of specifying the
file as a parameter in the gnucash command in the shortcut, so
something like
gnucash path/to/his.gnucash

Colin

> Thank you in advance,
> Claire
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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