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

[Claire Light]

Thank you so much Maf and Colin for your clarifications.  I truly
appreciate you taking the time to explaining the ins and outs of this to
me, and answering all my questions...it all makes very good sense to me.
As a relative newbie to GC, and completely new to this mailing list, I am
extremely impressed by this community assistance and the speed with which
my questions were answered.
This thread can be considered resolved.
Many blessings to all,
Claire


On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> On Monday, 5 December 2016 20:40:18 GMT you wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Colin, separate logins would mean separate user names and home
> directories.  IMHO it isn't really a matter of trust at looking at each
> others
> files that leads me to suggest 2 logins, more that you & your husband may
> prefer different settings - and I'm not just talking about GC here - Linux
> is
> much more configurable / customisable than you may be used to on other
> systems.
> Speaking personally, it would be a shame if my tinkering with settings
> screwed
> up my wife's desktop, or libre-office defaults for example.  Mostly cos
> I'd have
> to fix it!  Also, I'd hate for gifts or other surprises to be ruined
> because of
> an errant email view or web page impression.
>
> Specifically for GC, certain things (like online banking logins and
> financial
> year start date) are stored per-user, and for example, if you both have
> accounts at the same institutions there may be confusion in the future.
> (Not
> saying will, only may be).
>
> As to repeatedly logging in/out, KDE offers the choice to start a new
> session,
> so I can be on Ctrl-Alt-F7 and someone else on Ctrl-Alt-F8, which does get
> used quite often in our house.  I assume that other desktops offer
> something
> similar, but I'm not familiar with recent Mint versions.
>
> Maf.
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