[GNC] Backup and restore GnuCash Settings

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Wed May 16 16:26:38 EDT 2018


Was this the order of operations?

#1 Upgrade/Install new OS version
#2 Restore backup
#3 Install new version of GnuCash

If #2 happened before #3, perhaps the GnuCash install is overwriting the restored .gnucash folder with a fresh copy.

Does restoring just that folder again from the backup restore your settings?

If so, then a bug should be filed on the overwrite issue.

If you installed GnuCash first and then restored the .gnucash folder from the backup, then for some reason it is not being seen.

But one last thing to check:

Perhaps you have a permissions/ownership issue? Is the .gnucash folder and contents owned by your current user number with the proper read-write permissions? Be sure to check the owner’s user #, not just the name. So if you were user 1000 in Fedora 27, you’d need to be user 1000 in v.28 or else change the ownership of .gnucash and contents to your new user number.

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 16, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> -All home folders (hidden or not) were saved and then then restored...
> -Same behavior even if the new installation is the same gnucash
> version e.g. Fedora 27 to Fedora 27
> 
> 2018-05-16 18:00 GMT+03:00 Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>> 
>> Nikos
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