[GNC] Saved report configurations

[rmomxtx at gmail.com]

Thanks Geert,

Windows 7. I found the file in C:/Users/TOSHIBA/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.4.
Out of curiosity, I looked for it on my Windows 10 computer and didn't find
it. I didn't see anything special for Windows 10 in the wiki. Not important
really as long as the update takes care of that.

You said, " If you want to force the migration, you should move the
directory aside before running gnucash 3.x." Will it work to copy the 2.4
file to the 3.4 directory? I saved the 2.4 file from the working pc to a
USB.  I'm guessing I'll have to delete the 3.4 saved reports file, if it
even exists as I have not saved any reports on the test computer. I would
like to give it a try. 

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 11:43 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: rmomxtx at gmail.com; 'John Ralls' <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Saved report configurations

Op dinsdag 19 maart 2019 18:08:29 CET schreef rmomxtx at gmail.com:
> Version 2.6.17
> 
> I looked at the wiki and am not sure where to start. If possible, just 
> need to know:
> 
> What is the name of the file where the saved report configurations are 
> stored?
> Should those saved configurations be available when I update versions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger
> 
The file is called saved-reports-2.x where 'x' depends on your gnucash
version as does its location. For 2.6.17 the filename will be
saved-reports-2.4 and it will be stored in DOT_GNUCASH_DIR as described for
your OS (which you haven't provided yet) under
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#DOT_GNUCASH_DIR

For GnuCash 3.0 and up the file will be in
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME for your
OS. GnuCash will look for a file named saved-reports-2.8 first in there and
if missing it will try to open saved-reports-2.4 in the same directory.

As for updates, if you update gnucash from 2.6.x to 3.x it will copy these
saved reports from the old location to the new one for you, but only if the
new location didn't exist yet! So if you ran tests on your new PC with only
3.x and then install 2.6.x on that system, the migration will not run again
after upgrading to 3.x. If you want to force the migration, you should move
the https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME
directory aside before running gnucash 3.x.

Regards,

Geert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:43 AM
> To: rmomxtx at gmail.com
> Cc: GnuCash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Saved report configurations
> 
> > On Mar 19, 2019, at 9:33 AM, <rmomxtx at gmail.com> <rmomxtx at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > Where are the saved report configurations kept. Apparently they are 
> > not part of the GnuCash data file. I installed vs 3.4 on another 
> > computer to test it and opened the data file transferred via USB. 
> > The saved report configurations are not there. Found one file that 
> > may be where they are stored, same name as the data file with the 
> > extension .LCK
> 
> It depends on what operating system and GnuCash version, see 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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