New PC

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 6/7/2017 7:34 AM, Edwin Humphreys wrote:
> I have GnuCash on an old PC, which I am now replacing. I can download
> GnuCash onto the new PC, but how do I transfer my old finance details? I
> have found nothing about this in your documentation or FAQs.
>
>   Thank you,
>
> Dwin Tudor

You neglected to say whether the new computer will be under the SAME 
operating system, and if not, whether you were familiar with the new 
operating system. BTW, this is more  a question about ALL of the data in 
your old computer, not just the gnucash data.

a) If the same operating system, and if you are choosing the same user 
name(s) as on the old, you can simply do a restore from backup << the 
backup that has ALL of your data >> because everything would be going 
into the same path(s) as on the old one.

b) If not the same operating system, a bit trickier. Whenever I do this 
I am usually unfamiliar with the new operating system, not sure whether 
everything should go (what the NEW path(s) will be). In that case, as I 
am installing software on the new machine, I take a look to see where 
data (from that application) goes. Now I know where to copy the data 
from that backup.

Michael D Novack