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

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 6 May 2022 18:58:13 +0100 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 
> 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?

Don't know if it is documented anywhere...

Config files somewhere in $HOME: .gnucashrc or under .local/...  I believe 
this is where reports are saved (report params, used to generate the reports).



> 
> 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).
> 

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