[GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri May 6 13:58:13 EDT 2022


If one wants to copy a GnuCash 'installation' from one place to
another, in particular from one computer to another what needs to be
copied?  I'm really only interested in copying from one Linux system
to another, both running the same GnuCash version.

Obviously one needs to copy:-

    The GnuCash 'data' file, either XML or sql

    Any log files (though not strictly necessary I guess)

However there are other files one needs to copy if you want reports
and screen layout and things like that to be the same.  Is this
documented anywhere?

I'm particularly interested in copying reports across as I run GnuCash
on both my desktop machine and my laptop.  Just copying the GnuCash
data file means that I get the same accounts on both systems but not
reports and connected files ('experimental' CSS for reports, that sort
of thing).

-- 
Chris Green


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