[GNC] Linux still at 4.5

[Stephen C. Camidge]

It sort of worked.

I find my 4.5 data stored at either (I have files in both?)
/home/steve/.local/share/gnucash/
or
/home/steve/.local/share/GnuCash/

The flatpack data is stored at
/home/steve/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/

My reports now appear, and the open tabs are there (but accross the top of the screen instead of at the side), so I am not sure is all the preferences migrated.

But this helps. 

Thank you!



On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, at 6:53 AM, Guille Lopez wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> The problem you are seeing is caused by the fact that the normal distro 
> installation of GnuCash stores all the user data (e.g. custom reports) 
> typically under $HOME/.local/share/gnucash (or similar), and the flatpak 
> installation saves (and tries to find) the information under 
> $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data (More info here: 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations)
> 
> If you want to have the same environment when using the flatpak version, 
> you need to copy that information to the expected folder.
> 
> In order to prevent any kind of data loss, I would do the following:
> 
> 0) Backup your Gnucash file!!
> 
> 1) Backup your $HOME/.local/share/gnucash (check first that for your 
> distro, the gnucash is using that location).
> 
> 2) If you have already done some work from the flatpak version, backup 
> also $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data.
> 
> 3) Copy the contents from $HOME/.local/share/gnucash into 
> $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data.
> 
> 4) Try to open gnucash flatpak a try to open your saved reports. (They 
> should be there).
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Guille
> 
> On 25/07/2021 11:49, Stephen C. Camidge wrote:
> > I should add that there is also a gnucash-xbt 4.6-1 available, but I have not tried it. Not sure why there is another build.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, at 5:46 AM, Stephen C. Camidge wrote:
> >> I am running Linux Manjaro and see that the aux distribution only gives version 4.5 of Gnucash. There is a flatpack version of 4.6, but if I install it, I do not have my saved reports and only the default preference.
> >>
> >> Where are the preferences stored? I would like to make them match what I have when using the aux version?
> >>
> >> I am a newbie on Linux so need clear instructions.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
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