[GNC] how to migrate data to new computer
Michael or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Mon Dec 9 15:40:50 EST 2019
On 12/9/2019 1:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> The easiest way to get the right file may be to open gnucash on the old
> machine and use File > Save As to save it to a USB stick or similar. Then
> you can copy it to a suitable folder on the new machine and use File Open
> in gnucash to open it.
>
That might be a good way to proceed if the only data you were moving to
the different/new computer was your gnucash books. But in a situation
like this, migrating to a new computer, you are USUALLY wanting to move
over all your user data (all your documents, for example). Not doing
this one at a time.
The questions about OS is most relevant when will be different from the
old machine. If you are migrating between machines using the same OS and
you choose the same name for your log in (your user account) as on the
old machine, data migration is easy. You can just copy over your entire
user directory (aka "file folder"). But if a different OS what things go
where might not be the same.
HOWEVER, even if the same, you would not simply be able to click on the
object (the file) because on the new machine you will not (yet) have
created associations between object types (as identified by file
extensions) and the application you want to use when you select that
object. That you in general have to do this whenever beginning with a
new machine might be less than obvious to users of a MS OS (any version
of Windows) because MS is likely to have provided default associations
to THEIR proprietary applications. Thus .docx might be associated to MS
Word "out of the box" or .html to Edge << that we need to set/reset
associations is obvious to those of us who use say LibreOffice or
FireFox etc. instead of MS products >>
Michael D Novack
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