[GNC] Backup and restore GnuCash Settings

[Geert Janssens]

Op woensdag 16 mei 2018 17:00:19 CEST schreef Nikos Charonitakis:
> Hi All
> I have recently made a back of my home directory on a fedora 27 pc
> and then i restored it to a new installation on fedora 28. I was
> expecting to open Gnucash and continue working on my latest Gnucash
> file and also have all my settings in place but this was not the case.
> Running Gnucash on the new installation is like you start application
> for the first time.
> Firefox for example does not have this behavior, all my setting
> plugins, bookmarks,passwords are in their place after restoring my
> home dir.
> Any ideas how to fix  this?
> 
> Note:
> This is not specific to GnuCash 3, i have seen the same thing and on
> previous gnucash versions.
> 
In addition to the other replies, a number of settings (like the first-run 
flag or the last opened file history) is stored in gsettings (which on linux 
is backed by dconf). Did you also backup and restore your dconf storage ?

Geert