Customized saved-reports file per gnucash file (i.e. per company)

Dave H hellvee at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 19:32:48 EDT 2017


Default location for saved reports on Windows 10 is
"C:\Users\<username>\.gnucash\saved-reports-2.4"  I'm pretty sure I've just
copied that same file across to my Ubuntu Linux installation as well - will
check tonight and see where it is for Linux.

Cheers Dave H.

On 11 October 2017 at 09:23, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is a section in the GnuCash FAQ about what files are where for the
> various OS's.  IIRC there is a .gnucash directory under ~user or some such
> which can be copied and pasted into another machine, even under a different
> OS but that would overwrite whatever is there.  Do not try that without
> backing up whatever is already there.  For Windows it might get more
> complicated, as some stuff is now in the Registry.
>
> David C
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 10 October 2017 at 15:15, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > what do you mean by machine specific?
> > >
> > > If you transfer your gnucash data file between machines, I thought it
> > > should also possible to transfer the saved-reports-2.x file between the
> > > machines.
> > >
> >
> > It probably is, but it's not trivial.  The data file is saved to an
> > arbitrary location, which can easily be some sort of shared media.  The
> > saved reports get saved... somewhere... by the application, and that
> > somewhere is very likely platform-specific, and doesn't seem to be
> > configurable.  Add to that the documentation about where GnuCash saves
> > certain state files seems to be out of date (at least for the Mac) and
> it's
> > enough to make the saved reports files less portable just because they're
> > that much more difficult to find.
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