Migration Issue

[Colin Law]

On 5 February 2016 at 21:39, Robert Burns <rebburns at zoomtown.com> wrote:
> Thanks you guys for your suggestions. I take it that since I am using the program for personal purposes I really don’t need the Gsettings prefs. Also, if I understand correctly by using Create Synchronicity and Dropbox I can avoid having to migrate from one computer to another. I already have a general backup program to back all my drives and files, but I guess I could use CS to separately backup and synchronize GnuCash on two separate computers, one of which also has a partition for Ubuntu 14.04. If so, can I avoid the migration from one computer to the other by synchronizing them?
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> Am I understanding you correctly?

Just to clarify a bit, unless you are doing something clever with
customised reports or similar then the only file you need to move or
synchronise between machines is the accounts file (myaccounts.gnucash
or whatever you called it when you first saved it).

Colin

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> Bob Burns
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> From: Dave H [mailto:hellvee at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 5:35 PM
> To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Robert Burns <rebburns at zoomtown.com>; Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Migration Issue
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> Bob,
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> 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.
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> I synchronise multiple machines using Create Synchronicity and Dropbox which works well for me.
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> 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.
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> Cheers Dave H.
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> On 4 February 2016 at 20:56, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com> > wrote:
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> Bob,
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> 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>
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> HTH,
> David
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>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 9:03 PM, Robert Burns <rebburns at zoomtown.com <mailto:rebburns at zoomtown.com> > wrote:
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>> 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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