[GNC] Hand-over on Succession or Short Term Absence

[Michael Hendry]

> On 9 Apr 2021, at 14:27, Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On 4/9/2021 8:34 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> I'll jump in just to say
> 
> Computers do not know who owns them.
> 
> That means that what you need to do to transfer to another person's computer is in no way different from transferring to another computer that you yourself own.  So this is NOT a different question than "how do I transfer my gnucash to my new computer?" which comes up here frequently.

Not entirely true, because 
1. a new computer will have the default set of reports and my stand-in might (indeed preferably should) be an experience GNC user, with GNC installed and in use already.
2. I’d prefer to transfer only BookA-specific reports to the temporary keeper of BookA.gnucash, and so on.

> 
> How do I transfer gnucash temporarily to somebody else's computer? (so they can do the work while you are out of commission) and then back again afterwards is just  "transfer to a new/different computer" twice in succession.

Again, not entirely true, because

BookA’s temporary book-keeper might write his own new reports during his spell of duty, as might BookB’s and BookC’s, and these would need to be amalgamated into a single file on my recovery, perhaps all at the same time, or perhaps separately (eg if BookA’s year-end was coming up, and its bookkeeper was going to finish off the year before returning control to me).

Michael