[GNC] Relocating user specific application data to another directory

[Adrien Monteleone]

To be clear, that variable is not for your accounting books, (user data files) that is for things like user prefs, CSS or .ini based UI customizations and saved report configurations.

If all you want to do is move your data file, just move it. And since you are on Windows, you get the luxury (I’m pretty sure) of just double-clicking the data file once from the new location to open it and then GnuCash will look for it in this new location from there on out.

In a worst, case, you’ll need to do a File > Open and navigate to the new location, though, I’m also pretty sure that a File > Save As (and then delete the old copy) would probably accomplish the same.

If however, you are truly intending to migrate your config stuff to some other location than the default, that *might* involve messing with environment variables.

That would be GNC_CONFIG_HOME in that case, if I understand the wiki correctly.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 27, 2019 w39d270, at 7:20 PM, mark101 <gnc.nabble at marko.33mail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> For easier backup, I wish to relocate my user specific application data in
> the default directory to another directory on my PC. My operating system is
> Windows 10 and I’m using Gnucash v3.7.
> 
> Documentation suggests this can be achieved by creating an
> 'environment.local' file in the same location as the 'environment' file, and
> adding to it, the GNC_DATA_HOME variable to override the default location.
> 
> Could someone show how the syntax should look in the environment.local file,
> if I want to relocate to the data, to say
> "C:\Users\Mark\OneDrive\Documents\Gnucash_data\GnuCash". I’ve had a number
> of goes at the syntax but to no avail… it keeps using the default directory. 
> 
> For those interested, as well as the text in the environment.local file,
> here are the wiki links which have helped so far:
> 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Diagrams_-_Windows
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
> 
> Many thanks and please excuse my ignorance as I’m new to GnuCash.
> 
> Mark