[GNC] New computer to set up gnucash and migrate from old.

[Randy Rosebrock]

Thanks for additional insight.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 6/17/2019 7:29 PM, Randy Rosebrock wrote:
> > I'll check it out. You would thing gnucash would build in a
> > backup/export/import function.
>
> You are slightly misunderstanding the problems because you are thinking
> of gnucash as being used to keep only one set of books. Also, gnucash
> keeps a list of the last four books open and if not otherwise instructed
> will try to open the last that was open.
>
> Many of us who keep multiple sets of books turn that off. We are having
> gnucash start without opening any set of books and then explicitly
> telling it which to open. Particularly after migrating to a new computer
> with different OS, even if you have only one set of books the "last
> open" might not be found << path is different >>
>
> file => open will let you CHOOSE the file (set of books) that you want
> gnucash to open.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
> PS: The issue of preferences/settings IF these are to be different for
> the different sets of books is most easily solved by having them under
> different users (different computer logins). Just because you are one
> human being doesn't mean that your computer knows that.
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Randy