[GNC] Upgrade from portable 2.6 to 4.4

[John Ralls]

Thanks for the kind words, but please remember to copy the list on all replies.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jan 18, 2021, at 9:58 AM, W. Michael Schoel <schoel at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear John
> Thanks for your help and that from the rest of Gnucash, I am a strong supporter of the open source community ( I prefer the term giftware as generosity is the primary foundation of the community and what keeps it going). Because of the particulars of my current life situation I am pretty much on the receiving end of this generosity but also most appreciative of it.
> To sum up : In the end I was able to move directly to Gnucash 4.4 Portable with minimal effort. A number of years ago I made the decision to move to using portable apps as much as possible possible as this greatly simplified backup and maintenance of my computer system and data. I could demonstrate that I could be up and running from a complete computer crash or move to a new computer in less than an hour with no data loss and the new system being a perfect mirror of the old. To do this I use a number of procedures but the main one is having a PortableApps folder nest to my as empty as possible Programs folder. Over the years portable versions of applications have become more common and a number of Windows installers now have to option of choosing a portable install come up at the start of the installation (no need to go looking for a portable version). More recently I have been switching to linux for more and more of my computing and am finding that the linux offerings to this approach is not nearly as clean or simple. I have no appreciation of the effort required but it would be nice if GnuCash fully adopted the Portable and AppImage approach. This is particularly useful when using something like Gnucash where preventing data loss and speeding up recovery from computer problems are so important.
> Just my opinion so far things have worked well for me and I thank you all for your great work and support I like using the software and have minimal issues even though I only use it for my personal finances which means only a few times a month.
> Best Regards
> Michael
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> On Friday, January 15, 2021 9:30 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 15, 2021, at 3:24 PM, W. Michael Schoel via gnucash-user gnucash-user at gnucash.org wrote:
>>> I am presently using GnuCash Portable 2.6.19 on win-10 and am attempting to upgrade to GnuCash Portable 4.4 which is already installed and with the accounts transferred from the older version. The accounts are all empty and all my attempts to transfer the entry data have failed. I am concerned that if my computer died I would loose all my GnuCAsh Data.
>>> assistance would be appreciated
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>> 1.  Make a proper backup of your GnuCash data (and any other data that you value) to at least two separate disks, one local and one as remote as you can manage so that you can recover if your disk or computer fails or your house burns down.
>> 2.  Set up a routine so that backup happens frequently.
>> 3.  To safeguard against data corruption, keep old backups.
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>>    Now to the GnuCash issues:
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>>    Portable Apps has in the past patched GnuCash sources, so we generally don't support their port. Supported GnuCash binaries are available from links at the top of https://www.gnucash.org.
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>>    No "transfer" is needed, GnuCash is able to open files from a previous version. For absolute safety we strongly recommend that you load into the last dot release of each major series and run check and repair, then save and move to the next major. Since your' starting at 2.6.19 you should first install 3.11 and load your book(s), run check and repair, and save before trying to load them in 4.4.
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>>    Regards,
>>    John Ralls
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