Migration Issue

[Robert Burns]

Hi Colin,
Everything has been migrated and I have been able to save the migrated files in a proper location on my new computer. I want to thank you all for your outstanding quick support. You guys must live at your computers. 
Bob Burns

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 3:52 AM
To: Robert Burns <rebburns at zoomtown.com>
Cc: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>; Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Migration Issue

On 6 February 2016 at 22:30, Robert Burns <rebburns at zoomtown.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Thanks for your previous suggestions. I am sorry to have to keep bothering you, but I am running into a problem. Before I read John Ralls comments I did the following.
> I set up Dropbox on both computers. On the old computer the path to the accounts was C:\users\Robert Burns\.gnucash\books\.

Do you mean that you saved your accounts file to that folder when you saved the accounts file?  That seems an odd place for you to store it.
If you don't know where it is then open the accounts on the original computer and do File > Save As.  That should open a file browser window and the folder that it initially shows should be where your accounts file is.  Note that folder then close the browse window (don't save the file).  If you then go and look in that folder you should find the accounts file, probably called something like accounts.gnucash, though again that will depend on what you called the file when you saved it.  That file is the one containing all your transaction data that is the key one that you need to synchronise, along with a .LCK file which is the lock file.  Also in that folder you should see all the log and backup files with long timestamp numbers in their names.

Colin