Migration Issue

[Dave H]

Bob,

I find the only prefs I care about migrating/synchronising on other pc's on
Windows are in C:\Users\<username>\.gnucash\books\<gnucash file
name>.gnucash.gcm for the same appearrance on all my pc's and if I have
saved report configurations C:\Users\<username>\.gnucash\saved-reports-2.4
I've never bothered with the GSettings prefs as I'm only keeping my own
personal accounts and don't use any of the business features etc and any of
the settings in GSettings I can easily just update manually via Gnucash
itself.

I synchronise multiple machines using Create Synchronicity and Dropbox
which works well for me.

As David T says it's just a group of registry keys so if you want to copy
the GSettings settings to the new pc you'll have to right click the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/GSettings registry key and select Export which
will allow you to export the complete GSettings hive as a .reg file (just a
text file so you can look at it with a text editor if you need to) which
you can then copy across to the new pc and double click the file to import
into the new pc registry AFTER you've installed GnuCash on the new PC.
You'll want to check each of the keys especially file locations to ensure
they are valid for your setup on the new PC as well.

Cheers Dave H.


On 4 February 2016 at 20:56, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> It’s been a while since I worked regularly on Windows machines, but
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/GSettings is a location in your registry, not a
> command. You need to copy the settings stored in that location and insert
> them into your new machine’s registry, I believe. Microsoft offers this
> infomation about copying registry keys:
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755091.aspx <
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755091.aspx>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> > On Feb 3, 2016, at 9:03 PM, Robert Burns <rebburns at zoomtown.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am migrating GnuCash to a new machine with Windows 7 on it. I have
> > attempted to follow the Migration instructions. Table 2.1 indicates the
> > preferences are stored in Windows registry at
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/GSettings. I have run this command but Windows
> > reports "no results". Is this command no longer correct or am I
> > misunderstanding the instructions? I have had no problem locating the
> files
> > listed in Tables 2.2 and 2.3.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob Burns
> >
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