[GNC] New PC

[David Cousens]

The user preference data is stored in the locations defined as USER_CONFIG_HOME
in the following wiki page. The page also details all of the places that data
about GnuCash configuration and what type of data is stored in those specific
locations is stored on the 3 operating systems. 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
There are a set of links to diagrammatic forms of this information on the 3
operating systems about a third of the way down the page. It is possible that
more informaton has been added since I constructed those a couple of years ago
as they resulted from my efforts to get the information in that page into a more
easily digestible form.
The location of the GnuCash data file containing the sets of  books can be
anywhere the user chooses in their home directoty/folder.

David Cousens


On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 13:06 -0600, R Losey wrote:
> Agreed... I believe the data is somewhere in the documentation, but I
> hadn't really realized that until I did the new installations.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:26 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
> stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 12/14/2022 6:57 PM, R Losey wrote:
> > > The data file (files) are the key thing. I recently updated both my iMac
> > > (new machine) and my Linux box (disk wipe and re-install). The data
> > files I
> > > used are stored on my home NAS, so that all computers can see the file.
> > > 
> > > I did notice that I lost the reports, but since I didn't have many of
> > them,
> > > I merely re-created them.
> > > 
> > > In addition, the register settings and the like were apparently saved
> > > locally, but again, it wasn't that hard for me to re-set some of the
> > things.
> > > 
> > > Maybe next time, I'll pay attention to where those are so that
> > > everything can be restored.
> > > 
> > It would perhaps be a good idea to explain WHERE that other user data is
> > stored so that users so gnucash can include that in their gnucash
> > back-ups (and so in moves to a different computer). I don't mean just on
> > the list, but also in the documentation under back-up instructions. I
> > realize that the location might be different for different OS's.
> > 
> > Michael D Novack
> > 
> > 
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