[GNC] Relocating user specific application data to another directory

[Adrien Monteleone]

Understood, and thanks for the clarification.

I could be misreading the wiki.

Perhaps someone more familiar with the environment variables specifically on Windows could chime in.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 27, 2019 w39d270, at 11:46 PM, mark101 <gnc.nabble at marko.33mail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Adrien for your reply.
> 
> Yes, in Windows, the financial data file (e.g johndoe.gnucash) is easily
> saved in the location of choice.
> 
> What I want to work out is how to relocate (migrate) the user data files
> (particularly the 'saved-reports' file), which in my Windows 10, are in
> their default directory: '(%APPDATA%)\GnuCash'.
> 
> My basic understanding of the documentation is that relocation is achievable
> in GnuCash V3.x  by creating an 'enviroment.local' file and writing a
> GNC_DATA_HOME environmetal variable entry with the appropriate syntax. I
> haven’t, as yet, been successful in working out this syntax.
> 
> My terminology is likely inaccurate, so I do appreciate your patience.
> 
> Mark