[GNC] how to migrate data to new computer

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The short answer is: "No." 

Gnucash data files end with ".gnucash" Gnucash *settings* files use gcm.

Go back to the first machine and locate the file named {MYACCOUNTS}.gnucash (usually in your home directory) and copy that. Note that you should not look for MYACCOUNTS, but rather the file name you chose.

I believe this issue is covered in the wiki somewhere.

David T.

On December 9, 2019, at 7:50 AM, The Frankses <thefrankses at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not sure I've got the correct file. I just found a folder named
.gnucash. Within it I found a folder called books. Within books I found a
file that appeared to have the right file name followed by .gnucash.gcm.

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 4:48 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure you have got the correct file?  What is it called and how
> did you get it?
>
> Colin
>
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 21:45, The Frankses <thefrankses at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to migrate my GnuCash data to a new computer. When I try to
> open
> > the file from within GnuCash, I get this message: "No suitable backend
> was
> > found for (the path to the file)." Any suggestions?
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